Splendour Forum and Comedy Club
Splendour Forum Presented by The Guardian returns in 2015 with more meaty, spicy treats for your mental appetite. Some of today's most prominent and interesting thinkers, politicians, musicians and activists feature on this year’s intriguing menu with live discussion panels, debates, interviews, Q&A sessions, secular sermons, literary salons, scientific talks and more.
10am-4pm daily.
Keynote Interview: John Kiriakou
What happens when a few good men (and women) stand up to wrongdoing in the world’s most secret agencies?
John Kiriakou was a director of CIA counterterrorism operations in Pakistan after the September 11 attacks and the first agent to reveal the CIA had been torturing prisoners and that torture was official U.S. government policy approved by President George W. Bush. The President denied it - and was shown by the Senate Intelligence Committee to have lied. The revelation cost Kiriakou two years in prison. Released in February 2015 and now active in peace and anti-torture circles, Splendour in the Grass is his first address to an Australian audience by live video.
Kiriakou is joined by lawyer and former ACT Attorney-General Bernard Collaery, who is defending “K”, an ASIS agent who revealed Australia used its state spies to bug the cabinet room of one of the world’s poorest nations, East Timor, to benefit a big oil company. In response, ASIO raided Collaery and Witness K and seized K’s passport, preventing him from giving damning evidence at the International Court of Justice in a case brought by the people of East Timor. The pair chat to whistleblower expert and author Dr Suelette Dreyfus, who wrote Underground with Julian Assange, about what can go wrong when spy agencies can hide behind their veils of secrecy.
Splendour Q&A
After last year’s mind blowing Splendour debut, Q&A host Tony Jones returns with our special festival edition of Australia’s favourite two-way show that brings punters, pollies and pundits together to thrash out the hot issues of the day. Splendour’s Q&A won’t be on ABC TV, but punters can experience democracy live in action when Tony “I’ll take that as a comment” Jones is joined by Greens co-deputy leader Senator Larissa Waters, Liberal MP Wyatt Roy, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson, Guardian columnist Van Badham and spy lawyer Bernard Collaery.
To ask a question email [email protected] or tweet #qandasitg
Science: Future Crunch
What does the future look like? Will robots take our jobs? Will humans live forever? When do we get our hoverboards? And what’s a bitcoin? Join the entertaining founders of Future Crunch, a forum for critical debate on the transition from the industrial to the digital era, as they zoom in on what will happen as converging technologies and scientific breakthroughs ‘crunch’ together. Join environmental economist Dr Angus Hervey and bio-informatician Tane Hunter as they sift through advances in nanotechnology, gaming, engineering, energy, healthcare and how we will live, work and play in the future. They'll be bringing the future with them too – experiment hands-on with new technologies including 3D scanning, virtual reality and drone piloting.
Film & Panel: Copyright: Artist’s Friend Or Foe?
Did Men At Work really rip off Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree?
In the world premiere of You Better Take Cover, a thought-provoking, tragic and entertaining documentary, Melbourne film-maker Harry Hayes explores the case that shocked music fans around the world. The film dives into the controversial case, exploring the development of Down Under, its commercial success and cultural significance as an iconic Aussie anthem and questions the relationship between art and law, influence and copyright.
A panel discussion hosted by triple j’s Dom Alessio, with musician Paul Mac, technology law expert Dr Nic Suzor, APRA’s Chris Neill, author/former triple j host Mel Bampton and film-maker Hayes examines whether recent high-profile copyright decisions protect songwriters - or tax their creativity.
Women Of Letters: Splendour Edition VI
Writers Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire are back to celebrate the beautiful lost art of letter writing with their annual special festival edition of this lovely literary salon. Join artists including Zia McCabe (Dandy Warhols), Steve Kilbey (The Church), Nancy Whang (LCD Soundsystem), King Khan (The King Khan & BBQ Show), Scarlett Stevens (San Cisco) and comedians Susie Youssef and Kate Dehnert as they each narrate their “Letter to the Song They Wish They’d Written”.
APRA Songwriters Speak: Keynote with Robert Forster
Join ABC broadcaster Robbie Buck as he chats to legendary Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and music critic Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) about his career, musical influences, lyrical inspirations and the songwriting craft.
Film & Panel: Frackman
Frackman follows the five-year ordeal of Dayne 'The Frackman' Pratzky, an ordinary guy who becomes an accidental activist as he takes on some of the world’s biggest coal seam gas corporations in a fight for his home, his life and his country. Fracking is an issue that crosses the political and regional divide, posing difficult questions for communities, governments and business. In echoes of the The Castle, this 2015 doco features an odd alliance of Aussie farmers, Lock the Gate activists, shock-jock Alan Jones and Steve Irwin's dad, environmental crusader, Bob Irwin, as they struggle to answer life-changing questions about who owns our farmland and our future.
Join The Guardian’s Adam Brereton as he hosts a panel with Pratzky, film-maker Richard Todd, the Australian Industry Group’s energy adviser Tennant Reed and National Toxics Network adviser Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith to debate the future of energy and who owns it.
Secular Sunday Sermon: Presented by The School Of Life
Spend Sunday morning with The School of Life, the international institute devoted to developing emotional intelligence through the help of culture, founded in London in 2008 by philosopher Alain de Botton. One of Australia’s leading advocates of fairness and justice, Julian Burnside AO QC will deliver a sermon-style keynote On Fairness, exploring the much-lauded virtue of a ‘fair go’ in Australian culture with his signature style of persuasive polemics, with a performance by musician #1 Dads (Tom Iansek).
Film & Panel presented by The Guardian
First Dog on the Moon and The Guardian Australia present: "Truth, Lies and oh look a bunny".
Gasp as the Guardian's much-loved cartoonist, First Dog on the Moon, holds the nation to account for its folly in a 30-minute live show. The earth is dying and it’s all your fault. Do not be alarmed! (be alarmed). Internationally renowned whisky scientist First Dog on the Moon is here to help. Learn how you too can be a National Treasure and save the earth. Or at least not be completely racked by guilt all the time dear lord everything is so awful ooh look a bunny!
First Dog on the Moon will be joined by other national treasures Julian Morrow (The Chaser), Lisa Pryor (SMH), Van Badham (Guardian) and MC Adam Brereton (Guardian) for a panel discussion and Q&A to explore the spectrum of lies, truths and half truths the media like to tell.
Splendour Forum - Daily, 10am-4pm
Splendour Comedy Club
They say laughter is the best medicine, and while medically, that might not be true, after overwhelming success last year, The Splendour Comedy Club is back in 2015 with four massive shows across the festival. With more than 30 hand-picked comedians bringing killer laughs to North Byron Parklands, this is the biggest comedy show we’ve ever done, and the biggest line up of comedians at any music festival in Australia. We’ve wrangled 30 comedians from all over Australia to delight, entertain, and reveal themselves emotionally to you in a cavalcade of comedy.
Featuring people you know off the tele such as Celia Pacquola (Utopia) and all your triple j faves including Matt Okine, Alex Dyson, Veronica Milsom, Lewis Hobba, Gen Fricker and Michael Hing, as well as some of the best emerging artists in the country, this enormous line up has something for everyone, unless you’re a joyless wonder, in which case, why are you here? Who invited you? Ugh, you always do this.
Last year this tent was packed with people (and lols), so get in early to grab a seat, and enjoy a line up full of the best chuckle-masters the country has to offer.
Splendour Comedy Club
Thursday, 6-9pm
Friday, 5-7:30pm
Saturday, 5-7:30pm
Sunday, 5-7:30pm
Splendour Comedy Club Lineup
Celia Pacquola, Steen Raskopoulos, Matt Okine, Tommy Little, Alex Dyson, Lewis Hobba, Veronica Milsom, Michael Hing, Bart Freebairn, Susie Youssef, Tommy Dassalo, Demi Lardner, Dilruk Jayasinha, Toby Halligan, Greg Larsen, Stuart Daulman, Genevieve Fricker, Cyrus Bezyan, John Conway, Jonathan Schuster, Henry Stone, Jack Druce, Kate Dehnert, Penny Greenhalgh, Bishara Marzook, Cameron James, Alex Ward, Aaron Gocs, Cameron Duggan, Angus Gordon.
This all on top of the already massive lineup for Splendour In The Grass...
10am-4pm daily.
Keynote Interview: John Kiriakou
What happens when a few good men (and women) stand up to wrongdoing in the world’s most secret agencies?
John Kiriakou was a director of CIA counterterrorism operations in Pakistan after the September 11 attacks and the first agent to reveal the CIA had been torturing prisoners and that torture was official U.S. government policy approved by President George W. Bush. The President denied it - and was shown by the Senate Intelligence Committee to have lied. The revelation cost Kiriakou two years in prison. Released in February 2015 and now active in peace and anti-torture circles, Splendour in the Grass is his first address to an Australian audience by live video.
Kiriakou is joined by lawyer and former ACT Attorney-General Bernard Collaery, who is defending “K”, an ASIS agent who revealed Australia used its state spies to bug the cabinet room of one of the world’s poorest nations, East Timor, to benefit a big oil company. In response, ASIO raided Collaery and Witness K and seized K’s passport, preventing him from giving damning evidence at the International Court of Justice in a case brought by the people of East Timor. The pair chat to whistleblower expert and author Dr Suelette Dreyfus, who wrote Underground with Julian Assange, about what can go wrong when spy agencies can hide behind their veils of secrecy.
Splendour Q&A
After last year’s mind blowing Splendour debut, Q&A host Tony Jones returns with our special festival edition of Australia’s favourite two-way show that brings punters, pollies and pundits together to thrash out the hot issues of the day. Splendour’s Q&A won’t be on ABC TV, but punters can experience democracy live in action when Tony “I’ll take that as a comment” Jones is joined by Greens co-deputy leader Senator Larissa Waters, Liberal MP Wyatt Roy, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson, Guardian columnist Van Badham and spy lawyer Bernard Collaery.
To ask a question email [email protected] or tweet #qandasitg
Science: Future Crunch
What does the future look like? Will robots take our jobs? Will humans live forever? When do we get our hoverboards? And what’s a bitcoin? Join the entertaining founders of Future Crunch, a forum for critical debate on the transition from the industrial to the digital era, as they zoom in on what will happen as converging technologies and scientific breakthroughs ‘crunch’ together. Join environmental economist Dr Angus Hervey and bio-informatician Tane Hunter as they sift through advances in nanotechnology, gaming, engineering, energy, healthcare and how we will live, work and play in the future. They'll be bringing the future with them too – experiment hands-on with new technologies including 3D scanning, virtual reality and drone piloting.
Film & Panel: Copyright: Artist’s Friend Or Foe?
Did Men At Work really rip off Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree?
In the world premiere of You Better Take Cover, a thought-provoking, tragic and entertaining documentary, Melbourne film-maker Harry Hayes explores the case that shocked music fans around the world. The film dives into the controversial case, exploring the development of Down Under, its commercial success and cultural significance as an iconic Aussie anthem and questions the relationship between art and law, influence and copyright.
A panel discussion hosted by triple j’s Dom Alessio, with musician Paul Mac, technology law expert Dr Nic Suzor, APRA’s Chris Neill, author/former triple j host Mel Bampton and film-maker Hayes examines whether recent high-profile copyright decisions protect songwriters - or tax their creativity.
Women Of Letters: Splendour Edition VI
Writers Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire are back to celebrate the beautiful lost art of letter writing with their annual special festival edition of this lovely literary salon. Join artists including Zia McCabe (Dandy Warhols), Steve Kilbey (The Church), Nancy Whang (LCD Soundsystem), King Khan (The King Khan & BBQ Show), Scarlett Stevens (San Cisco) and comedians Susie Youssef and Kate Dehnert as they each narrate their “Letter to the Song They Wish They’d Written”.
APRA Songwriters Speak: Keynote with Robert Forster
Join ABC broadcaster Robbie Buck as he chats to legendary Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and music critic Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) about his career, musical influences, lyrical inspirations and the songwriting craft.
Film & Panel: Frackman
Frackman follows the five-year ordeal of Dayne 'The Frackman' Pratzky, an ordinary guy who becomes an accidental activist as he takes on some of the world’s biggest coal seam gas corporations in a fight for his home, his life and his country. Fracking is an issue that crosses the political and regional divide, posing difficult questions for communities, governments and business. In echoes of the The Castle, this 2015 doco features an odd alliance of Aussie farmers, Lock the Gate activists, shock-jock Alan Jones and Steve Irwin's dad, environmental crusader, Bob Irwin, as they struggle to answer life-changing questions about who owns our farmland and our future.
Join The Guardian’s Adam Brereton as he hosts a panel with Pratzky, film-maker Richard Todd, the Australian Industry Group’s energy adviser Tennant Reed and National Toxics Network adviser Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith to debate the future of energy and who owns it.
Secular Sunday Sermon: Presented by The School Of Life
Spend Sunday morning with The School of Life, the international institute devoted to developing emotional intelligence through the help of culture, founded in London in 2008 by philosopher Alain de Botton. One of Australia’s leading advocates of fairness and justice, Julian Burnside AO QC will deliver a sermon-style keynote On Fairness, exploring the much-lauded virtue of a ‘fair go’ in Australian culture with his signature style of persuasive polemics, with a performance by musician #1 Dads (Tom Iansek).
Film & Panel presented by The Guardian
First Dog on the Moon and The Guardian Australia present: "Truth, Lies and oh look a bunny".
Gasp as the Guardian's much-loved cartoonist, First Dog on the Moon, holds the nation to account for its folly in a 30-minute live show. The earth is dying and it’s all your fault. Do not be alarmed! (be alarmed). Internationally renowned whisky scientist First Dog on the Moon is here to help. Learn how you too can be a National Treasure and save the earth. Or at least not be completely racked by guilt all the time dear lord everything is so awful ooh look a bunny!
First Dog on the Moon will be joined by other national treasures Julian Morrow (The Chaser), Lisa Pryor (SMH), Van Badham (Guardian) and MC Adam Brereton (Guardian) for a panel discussion and Q&A to explore the spectrum of lies, truths and half truths the media like to tell.
Splendour Forum - Daily, 10am-4pm
Splendour Comedy Club
They say laughter is the best medicine, and while medically, that might not be true, after overwhelming success last year, The Splendour Comedy Club is back in 2015 with four massive shows across the festival. With more than 30 hand-picked comedians bringing killer laughs to North Byron Parklands, this is the biggest comedy show we’ve ever done, and the biggest line up of comedians at any music festival in Australia. We’ve wrangled 30 comedians from all over Australia to delight, entertain, and reveal themselves emotionally to you in a cavalcade of comedy.
Featuring people you know off the tele such as Celia Pacquola (Utopia) and all your triple j faves including Matt Okine, Alex Dyson, Veronica Milsom, Lewis Hobba, Gen Fricker and Michael Hing, as well as some of the best emerging artists in the country, this enormous line up has something for everyone, unless you’re a joyless wonder, in which case, why are you here? Who invited you? Ugh, you always do this.
Last year this tent was packed with people (and lols), so get in early to grab a seat, and enjoy a line up full of the best chuckle-masters the country has to offer.
Splendour Comedy Club
Thursday, 6-9pm
Friday, 5-7:30pm
Saturday, 5-7:30pm
Sunday, 5-7:30pm
Splendour Comedy Club Lineup
Celia Pacquola, Steen Raskopoulos, Matt Okine, Tommy Little, Alex Dyson, Lewis Hobba, Veronica Milsom, Michael Hing, Bart Freebairn, Susie Youssef, Tommy Dassalo, Demi Lardner, Dilruk Jayasinha, Toby Halligan, Greg Larsen, Stuart Daulman, Genevieve Fricker, Cyrus Bezyan, John Conway, Jonathan Schuster, Henry Stone, Jack Druce, Kate Dehnert, Penny Greenhalgh, Bishara Marzook, Cameron James, Alex Ward, Aaron Gocs, Cameron Duggan, Angus Gordon.
This all on top of the already massive lineup for Splendour In The Grass...
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Friday
Mark Ronson Of Monsters And Men Peking Duk Ryan Adams Death Cab For Cutie Porter Robinson (Live) The Rubens Piritualized Everything Everything San Cisco Tkay Maidza Johnny Marr #1 Dads Catfish And The Bottlemen Dustin Tebutt Jenny Lewis Seekae George Maple Client Liaison Marmozets Mansionair Urban Cone Paul Mac Japanese Wallpaper Gengahr Ecca Vandal Harts Generik Post Percy Harvey Sutherland Noise In My Head CC:Disco! Mike Who |
Saturday
Florence and the Machine The Wombats Flight Facilities Boy & Bear The Dandy Warhols Azealia Banks Pond Best Coast Jarryd James Purity Ring The Grates The Smith Street Band The Church The King Khan & BBQ Show Years & Years Elliphant Palma Violets Safia Hayden James Dune Rats Meg Mac Circa Waves Art of Sleeping Eves The Behavior The Babe Rainbow Nancy Whang Young Franco Mickey Kojak Benson Total Giovanni DJ's Ara Koufax I’lls Adi Toohey Shantan Wantan Ichiban |
Sunday
Blur Tame Impala Royal Blood Earl Sweatshirt Xavier Rudd & the United Nations Jamie T Alison Wonderland MS MR Thundamentals Allday MØ Kitty, Daisy & Lewis Megan Washington Carmada Last Dinosaurs The Vaccines Alpine C.W. Stoneking The Delta Riggs Wolf Alice Oh Mercy The Districts Shlohmo Elizabeth Rose Bad//Dreems Holy Holy Vallis Alps Cosmo’s Midnight Joyride UV Boi فوقبنفسجي GL Dugong Jr Set Mo Akouo Edd Fisher |
While Splendour 2015 tickets are SOLD OUT, there is a re-sale opportunity available
Ticket Re-Sale Facility
The official ticket resale facility is now open via Moshtix.
You can offer your ticket for resale until 5pm, Wednesday 15 July.
You can make a purchase (subject to supply) until midnight, Monday 20 July.
3 day Event Ticket - $365 + booking fees
Single Day Tickets (Friday, Saturday or Sunday) - $155 + booking fees
Camping Ticket - $120 + booking fees
Note: A 2.1% transaction fee applies to all orders
** you have the option to offset your carbon emissions for $3 per ticket
Vehicle passes
To manage traffic and create a greener event, we will again be implementing a vehicle pass system that will encourage carpooling, please see the Splendour website for more detailed information.
Transport
Shuttle services will run between surrounding locations including Byron Bay, Brunswick Heads and North Byron Parklands.
Keep your eyes on the Splendour website and Facebook page for more details.
Ticket Re-Sale Facility
The official ticket resale facility is now open via Moshtix.
You can offer your ticket for resale until 5pm, Wednesday 15 July.
You can make a purchase (subject to supply) until midnight, Monday 20 July.
3 day Event Ticket - $365 + booking fees
Single Day Tickets (Friday, Saturday or Sunday) - $155 + booking fees
Camping Ticket - $120 + booking fees
Note: A 2.1% transaction fee applies to all orders
** you have the option to offset your carbon emissions for $3 per ticket
Vehicle passes
To manage traffic and create a greener event, we will again be implementing a vehicle pass system that will encourage carpooling, please see the Splendour website for more detailed information.
Transport
Shuttle services will run between surrounding locations including Byron Bay, Brunswick Heads and North Byron Parklands.
Keep your eyes on the Splendour website and Facebook page for more details.
