The Birdsville Big Red Bash - A Great Road Trip From Any Australian City

The Birdsville Big Red Bash is the most remote music festival in the world – located on the edge of the Simpson Desert against a backdrop of rolling red sand dunes.

The Simpson Desert is the world’s largest parallel sand dune desert covering an area of more than 176,000 square kilometres, which is larger than the country, Belgium.

With 9,000 concert goers undertaking an average trip of 4,300 km, a combined 40 million kms are accrued by those travelling to and from the Big Red Bash. This is over 100 times the distance to the moon, and is the highest number of kms travelled to attend any event in Australia.

The Big Red Bash event site is 35km from the small outback township of Birdsville, Queensland. Outside of event times, Birdsville is home to around 115 residents. Birdsville sits at either the start or finish of the famous Birdsville track.

Birdsville has a rich history of drawing people together. The traditional custodians of the land are the Wangkangurru-Yarluyandi people. For thousands of years, Wirrarri (Birdsville) was one of the places where people gathered to trade grinding stones, ochre, weapons and other goods.

The concert and Big Red Bash campsite grounds, known as Bashville, are located on an organic cattle station called Adria Downs.

Camping in this pristine environment is restricted, and event organisers do everything possible to protect the land and to ensure the station’s organic status is preserved.

The camping area sits on the dried-out bed of an ancient lake with the giant red sand dune as a backdrop. It forms a natural amphitheater, making it the perfect setting for the iconic Big Red Bash outback festival.

The majestic desert landscape is coated in red dust that comes from the small pieces of gibber rock present throughout the region. Each year, the weather and natural erosion add a little more of this unique red dust to the world’s largest sand dune desert.

For more information visit www.bigredbash.com.au

2020 Birdsville Big Red Bash
Where: Big Red sand dune, 35 km West of Birdsville
When: Tuesday 7 July – Thursday 9 July, 2020
More info: www.bigredbash.com.au – tickets will go on-sale from October 2019