If there is one bit of advice that can be applied to all music festivals this summer it’s this: plan early. Those things sell out faster than you can jog on the spot and say Run DMC. Of course you can plan too early too. If, for example, you’ve already booked your accommodation in Byron Bay for next year’s Splendor in the Grass you will be strategically disadvantaged because the festival’s three-day, 10th anniversary bonanza will be held two hours away in Queensland. Splendor has build up a reputation as a killer festival. It runs in winter, which makes sense if you’re intolerant of heatstroke and coming into contact with other people’s sweat, and it organizers always jag the cream bands. Splendor has out grown its original venue but will return to a new site in the Byron Shire for 2011. Meantime, next year’s show will be held at Woodford in Southern Queensland, home of the Woodford Folk Festival. The bands are announced in March – start planning (splendourinthegrass.com).