By now you’ve probably washed away the dust and camping grime from the weekend’s Splendour In The Grass – but not the awesome memories. Maybe you simply got your vicarious dose of the festival action in other ways, hearing about all the bands that killed it. But there’s one perspective that we’ve yet to view the Byron Bay event: through the eyes of the 2014 lineup themselves.

We picked the brains of some of Australia’s biggest and best talent who rocked the Splendour stages to get their personal take on the 14th edition of the winter music festival mainstay.

From new rock royalty Kingswood and The Preatures, to top wordsmith Remi and bona fide star Vance Joy, through to an ex-Powdefinger member and a platinum-selling dance duo, here are their eye-opening responses. Here’s to next year!

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