Hotel rooms are booked more than a year in advance not just in Parkes, but surrounding towns, and the sportsground, converted into a tent city, is overflowing. Officials say the expanding crowd is getting younger every year.
It may have begun as the brainchild of “two silly people who were Elvis fans,” said Steel, but the festival has become a celebration of 60s rock culture and a coming together of city and country life.
“I have been a fan since I was 11 and I’m now 66, but now you don’t have to be an Elvis fan, there’s something for everyone,” she said. “The fella who gets dragged here kicking and screaming by his wife is always the first to book for next year.”
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