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Take a look at the winners of the 2008 Festival Awards here with our Snap! featured gallery
The winners of the inaugural Australian Festival Awards were announced at an event in Sydney last night, with the results proving that when it comes to music festivals, bigger isn’t always better.
In a surprising awards ceremony, most of the country’s largest festivals were pipped at the post on the gongs, given for a range of categories including best Crowd & Atmosphere, Sound & Production and best Value For Money. With over 18,000 votes cast by festival fans through FasterLouder.com.au, the awards went to a series of lower-profile events around the country.
The biggest winner of the event was the Golden Plains festival in Victoria which walked away with two of the prizes, best Management & Facilities and Best Overall Favourite Festival. From the same team behind the Meredith Festival, Golden Plains was ranked the best overall festival using the unique scorecard system that ranked each festival by the average ratings given by fans, not just popularity.
“We really are thrilled to the back teeth to receive this award,” said Aunty Meredith of Golden Plains. “We’d like to thank everyone who comes to Golden Plains and voted for her. She’s still a young festival and just starting to find her feet, so to get this award early on in life is pretty miraculous.”
Sydney’s Harbourlife and Victoria’s Rainbow Serpent flew the flag for the dance scene, winning the awards for Venue & Location and Value For Money respectively.
Australian Festival Awards 2008 results:
Best Overall Festival – Golden Plains, Victoria
Management & Facilities – Golden Plains, Victoria
Venue & Location – Harbourlife, NSW
Crowd & Atmosphere – Playground Weekender, NSW
Sound & Production – Womadelaide, SA
Line-Up – Falls Festival, Victoria
Value For Money – Rainbow Serpent, Victoria
Green Friendly – Woodford Folk Festival, Queensland
Best Local Act – The Presets
Best International Act – Rage Against The Machine
Best Festival Photo – Anthony Tran, Western Australia
Take a look at the winners of the 2008 Festival Awards here with our Snap! featured gallery
howzitgarn says...
how did earthdance not win best value for money - ITS FUCKIN FREE
mr_doobi says...
pfffffffffffffffffft ummmm ya wat ev..... weres splendour? or BDO?
zigahhh says...
what a load of sh#t
Corexxx says...
Best lineup at Falls? Suuurrre.
bobshled says...
The people have had their say. Accept it.
Weqster says...
You can tell how much of a flop this was. No one voted and/or cared, hence the results.
jay_25 says...
bets line up falls fest.. OKAY def some bogan from western australia pikd the winners.
i_have_ADD says...
Weqster > 18,000 votes is no one? haha
RickJamesBitch says...
LOL not one Fuzzy event....surprise suprise
asil86 says...
Yeah man wtf.. FYI RickJameBitch.. Harbourlife is a Fuzzy event..
nickgalea says...
hmmm this looks rubbish to me, best line up falls???? yeh right
zokstar says...
shittest fucking awards
Seamus Ryan says...
link to best festival photo please..?
RickJamesBitch says...
oops my bad, didn't see dat.....but yeah besides dat lol
i_have_ADD says...
Seamus Ryan > the best festival photo is in the snap featured gallery - there's links to it at the bottom and top of the article
jamesc1987 says...
18 000 is no one i_have_ADD...wats 18 000 like 5% of Sydney BDO crowd?? add up all people at all the festivals n clearly no bone voted..0 care factor
i_have_ADD says...
if 18,000 is 5% of the sydney big day out capacity that would make it 360,000 person event. sounds like fun
Spiro says...
Rainbow Serpent best value for money considering it's the most expenive festival on the circuit at $200 a ticket is laughable to say the least
amanda fantastique says...
golden plains deserves to win, such a great vibe unlike any other festival in australia
polarbear says...
more meaningless statistics driven sponsorship rubbish.
LeZp says...
Is this a joke ???
Cosmicdubstar says...
Golden Plains = easily the best festival in Aus, so completely deserved to win. Completely non-commercial, great vibes, great people, great line-up, great location. Had to laugh about Rainbow Serpent being value for money though!