THE FRONT BOOT

This year ’ s Big Red Bash is set to turn blue as part of a world record attempt .

Festival-goers are being encouraged to dress in blue and buy a $ 15 blue wig in an effort to create the ‘ largest human image of a country ’, a record currently held by Romania with 4807 participants .

Organisers aim to bring together 5000 festival-goers to form a blue map of Australia inside an area that will be mapped out by GPS . It will be adjudicated by The Australian Book of Records . All funds raised will go to JDRF , an organisation dedicated to creating a world without type 1 diabetes .

Tickets have already sold out for this year ’ s Big Red Bash . Thousands of travellers from across Australia are expected to arrive in Birdsville in July for the 10-year anniversary of the world ’ s most remote music festival .

Artist ' s rendition of how the world record attempt will hopefully look from the air .

The festival was established in 2013 when music entrepreneur Greg Donovan organised for Aussie country legend John Williamson to perform atop Big Red , the 40m-high sand dune outside of Birdsville , to raise awareness of , and funds for , type 1 diabetes . Without promotion , word of the concert got out and hundreds came to watch , and the rest is history .

Greg staged a bigger event the next year ; however , tickets didn ’ t sell as well as he had hoped . But in 2015 , after taking a redundancy payout , Greg gambled it on the 2015 Big Red Bash , securing Jimmy Barnes as the headline act , and the rest is history .

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