Splendour in the Grass Has Announced Its 2023 Sideshows If You're Skipping Byron Bay This Year

Maybe it's a budget thing. Perhaps you can't get time off work. Your diary just mightn't be able to spare a whole three days in Byron Bay, plus travelling there and back. Can't make it to Splendour in the Grass in 2023? There are plenty of reasons why that might be the case, but the festival's official sideshows are here to help cure your FOMO.

This year, everyone from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Lewis Capaldi to Little Simz and Tove Lo are hitting stages around Australia outside of their Splendour sets — and Loyle Carner, Rainbow Kitten Surprise and Noah Cyrus as well. Keen to see your favourite act do their own show? They might be on this list, albeit with the usual Sydney- and Melbourne-heavy focus.

As is almost always the case with sideshows to Byron-based fests, Brisbane doesn't get a look in. If you're located in the Sunshine State and you're keen, Splendour or a trip to the New South Wales and Victorian capitals is in your future. Sam Fender's only sideshow is in Perth, however, and Lewis Capaldi's already on-sale sideshows only have tickets remaining for his Perth stopover.

For folks in Adelaide, Loyle Carner is coming to South Australia, and Capaldi as well, but his solo gig is already sold out. That said, Secret Sounds, the crew behind Splendour, is also bringing its winter festival Spin Off back to the City of Churches, complete with SiTG acts Hilltop Hoods, Pnau, Tove Lo, BENEE, iann dior and Noah Cyrus.

Yeah Yeah Yeah's sideshows come after the band was meant to make the trip to Australia for 2022's Splendour, complete with their own concerts, but had to drop out.

Lizzo's Australian arena tour isn't on this list given that it was announced before Splendour, but that's another way to see the fest's talent without a trip to Byron.

SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS 2023 OFFICIAL SIDESHOWS:

YEAH YEAH YEAHS
With Automatic
Thursday, July 20 — MCA, Melbourne
Monday, July 24 — Hordern Pavilion, Sydney

SAM FENDER
Thursday, July 20 — HBF Stadium, Perth

LITTLE SIMZ
Wednesday, July 19 — MCA, Melbourne
Friday, July 21 — Hordern Pavilion, Sydney

TOVE LO
With Blusher
Wednesday, July 19 — Forum, Melbourne
Tuesday, July 25 — Roundhouse, Sydney

LOYLE CARNER
Saturday, July 22 — Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Tuesday, July 25 — Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide
Thursday, July 27 — Palais Theatre, Melbourne

IANN DIOR
Wednesday, July 19 — 170 Russell, Melbourne
Saturday, July 22 — Metro Theatre, Sydney

RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE
Thursday, July 20 — Metro Theatre, Sydney
Friday, July 21 — 170 Russell, Melbourne

NOAH CYRUS
With PJ Harding
Sunday, July 9 — Metro Theatre, Sydney
Sunday, July 16 — 170 Russell, Melbourne

SUDAN ARCHIVES
Saturday, July 22 — Liberty Hall, Sydney
Tuesday, July 25 — 170 Russell, Melbourne

DEL WATER GAO
Friday, July 21 — Howler, Melbourne
Saturday, July 22 — Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney

LEWIS CAPALDI (on sale now)
With Noah Cyrus
Friday, July 7–Saturday, July 8 — Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney — SOLD OUT
Tuesday, July 11 — RAC Arena, Perth
Thursday, July 13 — Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide — SOLD OUT
Friday, July 14–Saturday, July 15 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne — SOLD OUT

Splendour in the Grass will take over North Byron Bay Parklands from Friday, July 21–Sunday, July 23, 2023. The festival's sideshows are popping up across Australia in July, with tickets on sale from 9am, Tuesday, May 9 — and presales from Monday, May 8.