Thank you for bringing your beautiful energy, community spirit and superior vibes this weekend, we couldn’t imagine weathering storms or dominating dancefloors with anyone else. Against all odds, it was one helluva party!

A massive THANK YOU to our amazing crew, staff, suppliers, sponsors, traders, artists and volunteers who worked tirelessly over the weekend, kept the show going throughout the storms and delivered our most memorable El Dorado to date.

BIG LOVE AND SEE YOU IN 2024 ❤️

During the course of the weekend it became clear that the festival would be affected by severe weather in the area including thunder and lighting. As part of our license we have a number of industry standard contingency plans in place with a ‘green’ to ‘red’ alert system.

Over the weekend we entered amber alert several times due to the proximity of the lightning to the festival site, and ultimately entered red alert on both Saturday and Sunday when we had to implement show stops. These occurred between XXX and XXX on Saturday followed by XXX and XXX on Sunday. Other festivals and events on the same weekend also had to implement their own show stops.

As part of this plan, we follow the 30:30 rule which means we have to wait at least 30 minutes following lightning strikes within a certain radius before we can restart the event. As festivals possess a significant amount of power and metal infrastructure this makes the site and the people within it vulnerable to lightning strikes, these measures are to protect the health and wellbeing for everyone on site.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation during these show stops and bringing your incredible positivity and vibes back into the festival when we reopened.