'Darkest night of my life': Chaos in Splendor on the Grass as rain wreaks havoc
Jaide Fisher, 26, traveling with friends and colleagues from Hawkesbury, was still queuing outside the festival at 8.30am on Friday, having arrived at 5.30pm on Thursday. “We finally decided to sleep on the back of our ute at 2.30 this morning as we hadn’t been moving for hours. We make a very uncomfortable bed to our Eskys on the ute tray,” he says. Fisher said all he wanted to do was “get out of here” but said the trio had spent $1000 each on the festival and were worried they would not receive a refund. “We don’t even want to go in anymore, but we wouldn’t leave if we were going to throw all that money away. After this experience, I will probably never go again,” he said as the line reached 15 hours. The artist who will be performing on Friday said Era and the Herald they worry about how they will get to the site on Friday in time to perform. “The ground staff did their best, but there was a lack of communication and we weren’t sure what would happen,” said one player. Era and Th