Our New Site
Whilst moving BPMF across the highway to our new site has major benefits for festival goers including a far better visual aspect for the main stage as well as a stunning secondary stage area which now brings the whole festival together with music and camping on the same side of the highway.
The main reason that prompted us to move from our original site was our concern for the animals at the new Zoo which moved to the Big Pineapple in late March 2014 just before our 2014 festival. Obviously it was too late for us to do anything last year but in 2015 we have made the move away from the Zoo because the last thing in the world we would want to do is stress any animals out due to music noise and we are sure you guys feel the same.
We have moved the festival directly across the highway from the Big Pineapple onto beautiful land that is still owned by the Big Pineapple and which is now a short walk away from last years campsite. We are now roughly 1km away and on the other side of the busy highway from where the Zoo is. The main stage now sit's at the bottom of a natural amphitheatre that has a 16 meter high gradual slopping hill which will work as a complete buffer for sound coming from the festival speakers.
The new amphitheatre also enables festival goers to see the main stage even if they are right up the back which wasn’t the case at the old site.
As part of our strategy to keep the sound mostly within the festival site
we will be using Line Arrays speakers which allow us to angle the sound into the hill and control it from escaping towards the zoo without losing any quality for festival goers.
As part of our strategy we will also have a sound technician with a sound meter that will be standing on the Big Pineapple/Zoo side of the Highway taking sound readings which will allow us to keep the sound levels within the set legal parameters that music events in QLD work within.
The animals are a lot further away from where the Sound Technician will be taking the sound reading so any sound will dissipate greatly from that sound reference point and we can all rest assured that there is no way the music festival will impact on the Zoo animals way of life in any way. The noise from the cars and trucks on the highway will be far more audible than any music from the festival.
Both the Toronga Park Zoo in Sydney and the Melbourne Zoo have been running music events inside their zoo’s with great success and
no effect on their animals. Our event is nowhere near the Zoo this year
and once again will have no effect on the animals whatsoever.
To the few people who have been wondering what is happening in regards to the zoo this year we hope this clears any uncertainty up that
you may have had in regards to our strategy . We would also like to thank you for getting in touch with us and greatly respect how much you care for
our animal friends.
Love and respect
Big Pineapple Music Festival
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