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This is the true story of how Tess Birch inadvertently started and ran a music festival five times.

From finding a site by door-knocking at remote country properties, to tips for cleaning portaloos at 3am. With tales of tracking down missing vegan food truck workers, to keeping the show going during an Omicron outbreak. Through bushfires and freak storms, this is the essential guide for anyone who thinks festivals are fun.

Following a sellout debut at the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the show's WA premiere at FRINGE WORLD invites you to don your festival shirt, grab your doof stick and come along on a journey of how NOT to run a music festival.

“Brilliant” ★★★★ The Age, 2024

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