Big Red Bash 2019

We wandered into town on Saturday morning the 13th of July after spending the past nine days camped on the town common just south of town. 
Here we joined the large line of people all waiting patiently to obtain their wrist bands and early entry car stickers. Without them access to the Bash site is impossible.

The 'Bash' merchandise was on sale in Birdsville last year, while we were obtaining our wrist bands and car stickers, but this year that's all changed with the merchandise only on sale out at Big Red.

Last year our morning temperatures made hooking up our van almost impossible due to the cold. Soooo this year I hooked up before retiring for the evening.

The evening before heading out to Big Red, three unthinking bogans turned up and blocked off our access to the road, so we were forced to go cross country to get onto the main road into Birdsville.

This year we joined Glenda and Steve who also own a Bushtracker. We met them last year at the 'Bash' and decided to park together at the event. We left town at 7 am and enjoyed a clear run for the vast majority of the trip out to Big Red.

Here we joined the line waiting for the access to start at 8 am.

Last year we left roughly at the same time except this year our site was in the front row. We also positioned the van just like last year with our awning facing away from the prevailing winds.

Once we'd set up it was off to the merchandise tent to purchase T-shirts, caps and a Big Red Bash hoddie for Ros.

This years headline act was Midnight Oil who played on the last evening. In the past, we have never been fans but after booking our tickets months ago, we started printing off the words to their songs and downloaded some of their albums. They are just so professional with Peter Garrett out front. His onstage antics have certainly toned down over the years. Maybe that's something to do with age.

Their 2019 tour finished at the 'Bash' after playing at nineteen other venues all over Europe, Ireland and the UK.

The other bands at this year's event included:

I'm sure the organisers are slowing running out of Australian acts unless they bring some back who have already played in past years. 

These series of photos were taken during our stay....