Amphitheatre Furniture Policy

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It’s ok to bring small chairs and low couches into the Amphitheatre itself.

It’s not ok to bring anything that blocks or impedes the view of people behind you. Things that block views are completely banned from the Amphitheatre. They are fine to be at campsites, just not anywhere that has a view of the stage. This includes umbrellas, which are also a bit dangerous with their pointy ends.

Likewise, standing on top of couches, chairs, coolers, etc to get a better view blocks the view of people behind you. So don’t do that.

We also ask that any hard coolers are either moved up around the couches once the sun goes down, or taken back to camp. Coolers on the ground late at night cause a lot of injuries to people making their way through the crowd and/or dancing.

Here’s some things to know about bringing a couch:

  1. There is a couch line that designates the area where you can place a couch.
  2. Some ‘aisles’ have been added to this area to help everyone get in and out.
  3. Please keep your couches inside the lines spray-painted on the ground, and make sure there are no chairs or the like in the aisles. There’ll be a staff member helping you with this on the first morning.
  4. It’s first in, first served. When the couch area is full, you have to either move your couch to the back (rather than to the side) or take it back to camp.
  5. It has long been an unspoken rule, but here it is in writing: anyone can ‘borrow’ a couch that’s not being used, but if the couch-bringers return, please make way for them.
  6. Plenty of folk have written to Aunty to voice their concerns about inflatable couches. Rather than banning them straight out, there’ll be a count of them at the start and at the end to see if they really are the scourge that they appear to be.
  7. Fold out couches or couches with raised bars and the like are no good unless you put them at the back of all other couches.
  8. Take all your shit home with you again, including your couch. If you aren’t going to have the stamina and conscientiousness to take your couch home with you again, then you can’t bring a couch.

Banned From The Amphitheatre

Things on Sticks (wider than your average head of cauliflower)
Couches, seats, or bars on stilts or raised platforms (I’m looking at you, sofa-bed-with-extended pine-legs person)
Stools
Pergolas
Gazebos
Shade tents
Kegs
Any furniture higher than, say, the belly-button height of your average Jolene.

Couch Deposit

In the past we have considered a ‘couch deposit’. We decided against it for a few reasons.

Firstly, it is onerous on those good folks that do the right thing. And we would like not to have to resort to a financial disincentive to get the right outcome.

It also might be seen by some as an invitation to bring a couch and leave it here for, say, $100. This has the opposite effect of that intended.

Or they might get their refund on their way out and subsequently dump their couch on the side the road somewhere, transferring the problem.

Positive encouragement and increased awareness have been serving us well in recent years, as the number of couches left behind has actually been declining.

If new people are attending and bringing couches for the first time, then our usual approach is to share the way we do things. It might take a little longer, but it is better for everyone in the long run.

Reminder

Please take all your furniture (and tarps and tents) home with you – we don’t want it and neither does Landfill.

This information is one of our policies and forms part of our terms and conditions.