:: Splendour In The Grass 2008

By: Carmine Pascuzzi

SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS will return to warm up your winter on Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3, 2008. Australia’s much loved festival event will take place at Belongil Fields in Byron Bay and will feature a veritable feast of musical treasures from around the globe. This year all tickets to Splendour In The Grass will be sold online through the ticketing service Qjump

Qjump is a newly launched online ticketing company whose parent company has seven years experience providing web based ticketing services. In our efforts to improve and streamline the ticketing process, this year’s tickets will be delivered to buyers by email using Qjump’s print@home e-ticket. The benefits of this include reducing paper usage, greenhouse gas emissions and ticket scalping as well as reducing the cost of delivery for ticket buyers. Tickets go on sale from 9.00am on Thursday, May 22.

Here is the first announcement of artists.

DEVO
WOLFMOTHER
SIGUR ROS
THE LIVING END
THE PRESETS
TRICKY
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
BEN LEE
COLD WAR KIDS
THE FRATELLIS
THE WOMBATS
PNAU
LAURA MARLING
THE VINES
THE GRATES
OPERATOR PLEASE
BAND OF HORSES
VAN SHE
THE PANICS
GYROSCOPE
MSTRKRFT
LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION
THE BROWN BIRDS FROM WINDY HILL
SCRIBE
THE MUSIC
THE GIN CLUB
and more to be announced

Ticket Prices
Event ticket $199 (inc gst) + booking fee
Green Event Ticket $206 (inc gst) + booking fee
Camping ticket $132 (inc gst) + booking fee