Despite a major headache this morning when tickets went on sale for Splendour In The Grass, a lucky few have managed to navigate their way through the chaos and purchase tickets to what has become one of the most important and most loved events on the music calendar.
Outkast, Lily Allen, Interpol, and more who are amongst the huge lineup of acts set to journey to Byron Bay this July will now be playing to sold out crowds, with organisers officially announcing that all tickets have been exhausted.
“The organisers of Splendour In The Grass would like to advise that all tickets for the 2014 event, taking place Friday 25 to Sunday 27 July at North Byron Parklands has sold out,” an official statement read this afternoon.
“Splendour would like to thank everyone for their patience this morning. Anyone that is concerned they have been charged the incorrect amounts or experienced technical difficulties during the purchase process should contact moshtix at www.ticketsupport.moshtix.com.au”
“We’ll be announcing the Official Splendour Sideshows on Monday morning, stay tuned!”
The concern over incorrect charges to ticket holder’s credit cards follows hours of frustration and concern after it appeared that Moshtix, the official ticket outlet for Splendour In The Grass, had been hacked during the sale.
Suspect credit card charges which in some cases amounted to thousands of extra dollars, had patrons flooding the festival and Moshtix’s social media pages with outrage, and panic. Concern soon stepped in after screenshots emerged of a suspect link added to the Moshtix ticket sales page offering to sell ticket holder eta on notorious hacker website Silk Road.
Moshtix have now released a statement that “technical issues” were to blame, and that ticket holders financial information had not been compromised.
Moshtix are yet to officially address screenshots that appear to show that their website was compromised this morning.
There remains a legion of angry punters who had attempted to buy tickets after waiting in the digital queue for up to 30 minutes, but backed out after encountering the erroneous ticket fees and were unable to secure tickets with the correct price.
A petition has been launched urging Splendour In The Grass to cancel all tickets and redo the sale. At the time of writing only 71 people had signed.
Splendour In The Grass 2014 Dates, Tickets
Friday 25th, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July
North Byron Parklands, Byron Bay
General Public Tickets for Splendour In the Grass 2014 go on sale at 9am AEST on Friday 2 May through moshtix.com.au and 1300 GET TIX (438 849).
Full details at http://splendourinthegrass.com/
Splendour In The Grass 2014 Lineup
Childish Gambino
Sam Smith
Hilltop Hoods
Joining the already announced lineup of:
Outkast (Only Aus Show)
Two Door Cinema Club (Only Aus Show)
Lily Allen
Interpol (Only Aus Show)
Foster The People
Angus & Julia Stone
City And Colour
London Grammar
Vance Joy
Darkside (Only Aus Show)
RÜFÜS
Ben Howard
Kelis
Metronomy
Hoodoo Gurus
Chvrches (Only Aus Show)
Grouplove
The Jezabels
Tune-Yards
360
Wild Beasts
Danny Brown (Only Aus Show)
Illy
First Aid Kit
Violent Soho
Ásgeir
Spiderbait
The 1975
Ball Park Music
Art Vs Science
Buraka Som Sistema (Only Aus Show)
The Preatures
Parquet Courts (Only Aus Show)
Sticky Fingers
Peking Duk
Sky Ferreira
Future Islands
Courtney Barnett
Phantogram
DZ Deathrays
Skaters
Gossling
Jungle
The Strypes
Hot Dub Time Machine
The Kite String Tangle
Ry-X
Mikhael Paskalev
Wave Racer
The Acid
Saskwatch
Kingswood
Circa Waves
Broods
Dustin Tebbutt
The Head And The Heart
DMA’S
Darren Middleton
Little May
Darlia
D.D Dumbo
Tkay Maidza
The Creases
The Wild Feathers
Chrome Sparks
Fractures
Mas Ysa
Nick Mulvey
Triple J Unearthed Winners
Plus DJs & Producers:
Nina Las Vegas
Yacht Club DJs
Motez
Touch Sensitive
Indian Summer
Wordlife
L D R U & Yahtzel DJs
Cosmos Midnight
Sable
Kilter
Basenji
KLP
Fishing DJs
Paces
Charles Murdoch
