The 2024 Birdsville Big Red Bash
The iconic Birdsville Big Red Bash — the most remote outback music festival in the world —will be taking a one-year break for 2025.
This festival has been operating since 2013 and was the first multi-day camping festival in Australia to return after COVID, welcoming more than 9000 festivalgoers to the Big Red Dune staging ground 35km west of Birdsville in the Simpson Desert, Qld, in 2021.
This event is consistently sold out, turning the Big Red Dune area into a mini desert city each year, so it may be a surprise that the festival is taking a breather in 2025. However, Outback Music Festival Group (OMFG) managing director and festival founder Greg Donovan said: “The spectacular desert location means we have no infrastructure on site — not even the basics of running water or electricity — so every year we effectively build and remove a mini city from scratch and spend six days looking after thousands of people.
“It’s a huge task, and one of the most logistically demanding events in the world to stage. Planning for the event is year-round, and most of our crew set aside a month to be on the ground from start to finish.
“After 11 successful years of staging the event and overcoming so many challenges and obstacles along the journey, our awesome team is overdue a break to reset and recharge. So, we are having a ‘BRB breather’ in 2025. To us it feels a bit like having a gap year after 12 years of school.
“It’s not a decision we have taken lightly, and we know that this will cause disappointment for those who have the Big Red Bash in their travel plans for 2025, and for businesses in Outback Queensland who benefit from the influx of travellers the event brings to the region. For this reason, we wanted to give people as much notice as possible about the pause.
“Hopefully many will plan ahead to join us in 2026, and if that’s the case they can lock in 7– 9 July that year, when we will be back refreshed, recharged and ready and eager to rock the Simpson once again.”
For those still seeking their Bash fix next year, it’s business as usual for the Broken Hill Mundi Mundi Bash which will be staged for the fifth time at Belmont Station on the iconic Mundi Mundi Plains from 21–23 August 2025.
To keep up to date with the 2025 Mundi Mundi news, head here.
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