Best of the Splendour Gigs

Splendour in the Grass 2015. Photo: Nolan Verheij-Full / Northern Star
Splendour in the Grass 2015. Photo: Nolan Verheij-Full • Northern Star

SPLENDOUR is only ten days away and the final milestone has been reached: the playing schedules for each day have been released via the festival’s website.

With some mammoth sets announced (The Cure has a three hour set!)

So what does it mean? If you have tickets to the festival, it means that you can start planning your glorious Splendour 2016 experience:

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Great Northern to be Hit by Avalanches

The Avalanches are an Australian electronic music group known for their debut plunderphonics album Since I Left You, as well as their live and recorded DJ sets.
The Avalanches are an Australian electronic music group known for their debut plunderphonics album Since I Left You, as well as their live and recorded DJ sets. Contributed.

THE Avalanches will be headlining a Splendour Pre-Party in Byron Bay on Thursday, July 21.

Secret Sounds Touring has confirmed the line up for the traditional Splendour in the Grass pre-party at The Northern in Byron Bay.

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Byron Gets Out of Jail Against Wollongbar-Alstonville

STRONG RUN: Byron Bay No 8 Jack Cooke charges forward against Wollongbar-Alstonville on Saturday.
STRONG RUN: Byron Bay No 8 Jack Cooke charges forward against Wollongbar-Alstonville on Saturday. Photo: Peter Moore

A LATE try to flanker Craig Wallace snatched a memorable 32-31 win for Byron Bay over Wollongbar-Alstonville in Far North Coast Rugby Union at Lyle Park, Wollongbar, on Saturday.

It left a pressure kick for the five-eighth John Laughlin, who had missed all five previous conversions and needed to slot the goal to maintain the team’s unbeaten record this season.

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‘Boomerang Bags’ Cut Byron Plastic

The Byron Mermaids are sewing reusable “boomerang” bags for people to borrow and bring back.
The Byron Mermaids are sewing reusable “boomerang” bags for people to borrow and bring back.

A GROUP of Byron Bay women is revolutionising the town with a new reuseable shopping bag system.

Plastic never biodegrades, and with the government is not making any moves to ban plastic bags, so the Byron Mermaids are sewing reusable “boomerang” bags for people to borrow and bring back.

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