Golden Plains is a Premium Music Festival on an Epic Long Weekend in the Greatest of Outdoors. It is staged in Autumn, when the afternoon goes on all day, the sun is like honey on the trees, and a giant spike of excitement goes kabloooey at nightfall. The Summer Fool is spent by March so GP is oblivious to that particular strain of vain folly. GP is for seekers. Hope u find It.
It’s at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, with controls set to premium mode.
There’s no commercial sponsors, no commercial signage on site, no market stalls, and nothing being marketed to you for the whole long weekend. It’s meant to be a haven. Camp wherever you like, bring almost everything and anything if you want – you can bring a couch (perhaps with matching armchairs and an occasional table, with a drawer) and plant it in the Amphitheatre for the weekend, and soak. it. all. up. For a long weekend.
Things kick off with a smoking ceremony and Welcome to Country and evolve into raucous and not so raucous party, with plenty of things to provoke some thought and plenty of things that require no thinking at all. Things like the Meredith Eye (a giant ferris wheel with views all the way to the Fairy Park in Anakie), the Ecoplex Outdoor Cinema, and some weird and wonderful traditions like The Boot.
Golden Plains, like its sibling Meredith, is set up to encourage attendees to make the place theirs and shape it in ways that don’t depend on the organisers. Got a good idea that doesn’t cause anyone else undue trouble? Then do it. Think of it as a canvas that you can splatter your paint all over, with some truly excellent artists on stage and equally excellent people out front having the time of their lives, deep in bush communion.
