Big Red Bash cancelled!
Submitted: Thursday, Sep 12, 2024 at 17:57
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IvanTheTerrible
2025 Bash has been cancelled with the organisers saying they require a breather. The weird thing is the same organisers run Mundi with the same bands and the same equipment but it's not cancelled. Organisers were disappointed with the numbers attending
Birdsville but Mundi was booked out to the point there was complaints about it being overcrowded. Is the writing on the wall for The Big Red Bash?
Reply By: Member - TerritorianNT - Friday, Sep 13, 2024 at 18:46
Friday, Sep 13, 2024 at 18:46
Thats great news that its cancelled in 2025.
We had cancelled our own
Simpson Desert Trip in 2025 because we could only get leave around the same time. But we can go now.
We don't go to the
Simpson desert to be crammed in with 10,000 other people, we go for the desert itself.
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Follow Up By: IvanTheTerrible - Friday, Sep 13, 2024 at 19:42
Friday, Sep 13, 2024 at 19:42
We are the same. We avoid the place like the plague at that time. Also the
Birdsville cup.
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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 09:48
Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 09:48
That’s amusing, TerritorianNT! Does get very busy at
Birdsville Caravan Park a night or two before the Bash, but the Bashers use less than 1 sq km of the Simpson’s 176,500 sq km while at Big Red.
Leaves plenty of room for you, me & others to do our thing.
Birdsville Van Park, night before the Bash. 2021.
Bob
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Follow Up By: IvanTheTerrible - Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 11:01
Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 11:01
Bob
The Simpson and
Birdsville Development road is very busy up to a two weeks either side of Big Red Bash.
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Follow Up By: Nomadic Navara - Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 12:11
Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 12:11
I think you would find it a bit busy in town during the bash. Are there not bus
services to and from the bash for those who like to plug into power?
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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 14:26
Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 14:26
Quote....."Bashers use less than 1 sq km of the Simpson’s 176,500 sq km while at Big Red.
Leaves plenty of room for you, me & others to do our thing."
And the traffic across the Simpson increases 10 fold and all the dunes are cut up.
Same as before and after the Finke.
Cheers,
Peter
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Reply By: Member - William B - Friday, Sep 13, 2024 at 19:33
Friday, Sep 13, 2024 at 19:33
You would have to think that it is a decision made on the money they didn't make.
A breather? If they were making money it would still be on.
We went to the BRB 2 years ago and the Mundi Mundi bash this year and it was a different feel.
Unless there is a artist I wanted desperately to see I won't be going again.
William
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Reply By: Member - peter g28 - Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 14:13
Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 14:13
I went to the
Birdsville races in 2015...
I got there, 30 years too late..
It took me 5 minutes to cross the road to the
toilets from all the traffic going in and out of town from the common.
Helicopters flying people out to the race course..
The crowds and those tucken small prickles...
I felt the
Windorah yabbie races were better..
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Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 08:49
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 08:49
We have just come through
Boulia a few weeks ago and the local businesses operators were complaining the timing of the Bash has completely changed the success of the
Boulia camel races and they are suffering diminished seasonal movement of customers. When we were there the
Betoota races were coming up, then Birsdsville and they had already changed the camel race weekend to cope with the effects the weather affected movement of people from the wet bash week. So i suspect there have been issues with the surrounding communities about the impact. They also complained that unlike the races which are all community managed and all funds stay in the local area, the Bash operators are a private business from NSW. They dont like it.
Michelle
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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 09:03
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 09:03
I wonder how it is possible, legally, to run a private money making business that requires 500 unpaid volunteers?
Cheers,
Peter
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Follow Up By: IvanTheTerrible - Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 14:32
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 14:32
Peter_n_Margaret
People are gullible.
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Follow Up By: Member - Jim S1 - Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 15:19
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 15:19
I would assume that the volunteers do get
free camping and free admission . Just assuming .
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Jim
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Follow Up By: IvanTheTerrible - Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 19:44
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 19:44
Jim S1
Is it really free when you have to work?
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Follow Up By: Member - Jim S1 - Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 19:57
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 19:57
No, not really. But it must work for some.
Cheers
Jim
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Follow Up By: Garry L - Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 22:28
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 at 22:28
"I wonder how it is possible, legally, to run a private money making business that requires 500 unpaid volunteers?"
Very similar to ( albeit non private ) the Australian Government making money off 15 million reluctant tax paying volunteers - the workers do the hard work and the business owners reap the rewards !
Gazz
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Follow Up By: Peter J4 - Monday, Sep 16, 2024 at 07:25
Monday, Sep 16, 2024 at 07:25
The logistics for Mundi Mundi would be much simpler and far less given that
Broken Hill is 30 km away and then then
well connected to major centres to cart the
infrastructure if it wasn't available in BH.
Much better for such big crowds as they don't do the damage to roads and
infrastructure like the BRB.
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Reply By: RMD - Monday, Sep 16, 2024 at 19:20
Monday, Sep 16, 2024 at 19:20
I think the local gatherings and functions like
camp drafts and local activities are great and are LOCAL. I go to the outback wherever it is, to see the amazing land and it's people. To go to Big Red for a beer can festival and have what some call music "artists" and thousands of people to tolerate isn't many people's cup of tea.
Birdsville is a popular place to visit,, all good.
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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at 08:29
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at 08:29
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Look for the positives…… because there will be more faces for the flies to settle on = less on each face.
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Follow Up By: RMD - Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at 12:47
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at 12:47
Allan.
I use a dead fish hanging from my belt. That keeps them away from the face better than a spray.
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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024 at 08:32
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024 at 08:32
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Maybe…… provided that the flies can tell the difference…. lol
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Reply By: John Baas - Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at 01:51
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at 01:51
My son tells me it's because Taylor Swift declined to appear...
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Follow Up By: RMD - Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at 19:12
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at 19:12
Swift is busy backing up SKAM-ALA. No time for Country Moosic!
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