Dear Bash Community,
We have some important news to share. The Birdsville Big Red Bash will be taking a breather in 2025. As you all know, our beloved Big Red Bash has been running continuously since 2013, with the exception of 2020 due to covid. We were the first major multi-day camping festival in Australia (and we believe the world) to return after covid when over 9,000 people attended in July 2021.
The Birdsville Big Red Bash is the most remote music festival in the world and has consistently attracted large crowds who travel to Birdsville from all corners of Australia. It’s a bucket list experience for so many people and has consistently sold out.
The spectacular desert location means we have no infrastructure on site, not even the basics of running water or electricity. 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 eleven successful years of staging the event and overcoming so many challenges, 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! This break is not dissimilar to what some major overseas festivals do, with the most prominent example being Glastonbury in the UK, which has a “Fallow Year” once every 5 or 6 years when they feel the time is right.
We understand that this decision will disappoint those who have the Big Red Bash in their travel plans for 2025 and businesses in Outback Queensland that benefit from the event. That’s why we wanted to give people as much notice as possible about the pause.
Hopefully, you will plan ahead to join us in 2026, and if that’s the case, you can lock in 7th to 9th July 2026, when we will be back refreshed, recharged and ready and eager to Rock the Simpson once again!
For those seeking their Bash fix next year, the Broken Hill Mundi Mundi Bash will be staged for the fifth time at Belmont Station on the iconic Mundi Mundi Plains from 21 to 23 August 2025. The 2025 Mundi Mundi Bash lineup drops mid-October, and tickets will be available at the end of the month. We intend to maintain the Mundi Mundi Bash festival capacity next year to a reasonably similar level as we had in 2024, despite now only staging one festival in 2025. We believe we are close to the sweet spot for site capacity and can continue to deliver an incredible festival experience, as we did this year.
Thank you for all your incredible support over the years. We’ll miss you in 2025 but can’t wait to see you in 2026!
Rock on! 🤘
The Big Red Bash Team
