2008 Best Festival
Golden Plains
From the team behind the fabled Meredith Festival, Golden Plains is everything you want in a communal experience: savvy line-up, bespoke location, distinct lack of wankers and, yes, BYO booze.
We really are thrilled to the back teeth to receive this award
and we’d like to thank everyone that comes along to Golden Plains
and voted for her. She’s still a young festival and just starting
to find her feet, so to get this award early on in life is pretty
miraculous. Thanks also to the townspeople of Meredith and the Golden
Plains Shire who are such supportive and understanding hosts. Our
sincere thanks also to Faster Louder for putting on the awards, it’s
a terrific acknowledgement that festival life is a major part of
Australian life and it seems that won’t be changing any time soon.
Lastly I would like to say, quite sincerely, that a major reason why
Australian festivals generally are so popular is that they are VERY,
VERY GOOD, and a major reason why they are good is that they are
generally run by good people who constantly strive to better what
they did last season. So the standards across the board are remarkably high.
So thank you very much indeed, and to everyone involved in festivals,
all the best for a vintage season.
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