Splendour in the Grass day two to go ahead after first day was cancelled

Day two of Splendour in the Grass will go ahead after the first day was cancelled due to extreme weather. 

Festival co-founder Jessica Ducrou told punters to ‘bring your gumboots’ with the grounds at Byron Bay still submerged in thick mud and floodwaters on Saturday. 

She insisted the music festival was safe to attend and that staff were carrying out repairs on-site to ensure the event could go ahead until its last day on Sunday. 

Festival co-founder Jessica Ducrou told punters to ‘bring your gumboots’ with the grounds still submerged in thick mud and floodwaters on Saturday

Ms Durou insisted the music festival was safe to attend and that staff were carrying out repairs on-site to ensure the event could go ahead until its last day on Sunday

‘We’ve had muddy events before, it’s not new to us, but I think the amount of rain that the Northern Rivers has received over the past six months has made it very difficult,’ she told ABC. 

‘Everyone’s working as hard as they can to make this an experience they deserve, but it is very challenging conditions.’ 

It comes after organisers were forced to cancel main-stage performances on the first day of the festival on Friday amid flooded campsites and delays accessing the site.

The Bureau of Meteorology forecast more rainfall in the Northern Rivers region on Saturday morning with the downpours expected to ease throughout the day. 

A severe warning for damaging surf has been issued for the Byron, Coffs Coast, Macquarie and Hunter coasts.

A gale warning for the Byron coast is also in place with waves of more than five metres possible on the NSW north coast.

Thousands of festivalgoers were forced to spend the night on the flooded campgrounds with growing calls for the music event to be cancelled.

Kadence Mathers was among the revellers who described the situation as ‘grim’ saying that a steady stream of rain overnight had added to her misery.

Organisers were forced to cancel main-stage performances on the first day of the festival on Friday amid flooded campsites and delays accessing the site

Thousands of festivalgoers were forced to spend the night on the flooded campgrounds with growing calls for the music event to be cancelled

Kadence Mathers was among the revellers who described the situation as ‘grim’ saying that a steady stream of rain overnight had added to her misery

‘I’m standing in… my complete foot is in water right now,’ she told the Today Show on Saturday morning.

Ms Mathers videoed the campgrounds submerged in floodwaters with cars bogged down in thick mud. 

She went inside her tent to reveal it had become a ‘waterbed’ with floodwaters becoming trapped between the ground and the floor of the tent. 

‘I’ve been using socks and stuff to mop up the water that is coming in,’ she said. 

Ms Mathers confessed she just wanted to leave the campgrounds, but would be unable to go anywhere until her car was freed from the thick mud.

‘I mean it would be good for the festival to go ahead, but it’s not fun in there,’ she said.

‘It’s completely flooded and muddy. You can’t walk without slipping. It’s not fun.’ 

Festivalgoers were determined to not let the rain and muddy conditions ruin their fun on Friday

Festivalgoers complained on Friday they wanted to leave the music festival because of the horrible conditions (pictured, punters wearing raincoats on Friday)

A severe warning for damaging surf has been issued for the Byron, Coffs Coast, Macquarie and Hunter coasts (pictured, muddy grounds at the music festival on Friday)

Festivalgoers complained on Friday they wanted to leave the music festival because of the horrible conditions with one uploading a video to TikTok showing cars bogged in the mud accompanied by the soundtrack, ‘I wanna go home’. 

‘Splendour in the swamp 2022,’ the caption read.

‘Splendour in the mud’, ‘splendour in the swamp’, and ‘splendour in the sludge’ are some of the names being thrown around to describe the mayhem. 

One reveller claimed on TikTok that staff were confused, having no idea what was happening or where to send festivalgoers to set up camp.

‘I don’t know what the f*** is going on,’ she said in the video.

‘We were in the car for six-and-a-half hours and they [staff] finally made a makeshift campground in the day parking area.’

Another video showed party-goers trudging through ankle-high water in gumboots as they tried to get from one side of the festival to the other.