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Soundwave Revolution Officially Cancelled
So after hyping up the awesome festival that would have been Soundwave Revolution, they have now issued a statement saying that it has been cancelled. What absolute bullshit! From rumours, which have yet to be clarified, it was because Soundwave were adding a 2nd headlining band to their festival [Being Limp Bizkit] but since they pulled out, Soundwave cancelled. Personally, I wanted to see Hole, and Alice Cooper the most, and the rest were just a bonus, but now I can't see any of the f-cking bands, and we have to f-ck around with refunds etc.
According to Nova 96.9:
"After hours of internet rumours, Soundwave Revolution promoter AJ Maddah has finally confirmed the news that nobody wanted to hear.
Maddah told Nova 969's news team they were forced to pull the plug on the festival after the second-biggest headliner pulled out. Listen to the audio above.
“The festival as we know it has been cancelled,” Maddah said.
“We were scheduled to make a second announcement on the first of August – we had our festival co-headliner on that announcement... Their circumstances changed at the last minute and they had to pull out and unfortunately we don’t have enough time to replace them and we didn’t really want to go ahead with an incomplete line-up.
“We could have taken the option of linking through with the line-up as we have now – it would have obviously still been a much better financial outcome for us than to go through the road we have – but we just didn’t want to put an inferior product on the market," he said.
Big acts lined up for Soundwave Revolution 2011 included Van Halen, Alice Cooper, Bad Religion, Panic! At The Disco, Hole, The Used, All Time Low, Sum 41, Dashboard Confessional, Relient K, The Pretty Reckless and more.
Maddah said plenty of bands would still be coming out to Oz.
“A lot of those bands are still coming and we are, you know, creating packages and what have you for them to (play) in clubs and other venues," he said.
The story started to unfold this morning when Steel Panther drummer Stix Zadinia broke news of the cancellation via his Twitter account.
"Soundwave revolution is cancelled. I am bummed," Zadinia wrote.
“Just got word from our management that the whole festival is cancelled. I hope I'm wrong but I was told it's official. Anyone hear same? Maybe we'll still come out and rock anyway! I'm hoping it can get worked out. We wanna rock u guys in Ozn (sic)"
Soundwave Revolution has just posted an official announcement via their Facebook page.
It is with great sadness that we announce the cancellation of the Revolution Festival. Many of the festival bands will still be coming to Australia in that time period and team up to bring you some very special shows.
These will include multi band/mini festival line-ups in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. We will be announcing these events in the next 7 days.
Tickets purchased online will be refunded automatically as soon as it can be processed. If you purchased from an outlet, refunds will be available next week from point of purchase."
Apparently half the bands didn't even know they were f-cking PLAYING the festival!!!
Last edited by 87RB30VL; 09-08-2011 at 06:33 PM.
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spewing man, heard about this a few hours ago . Was going to go to it to , but never got tickets so guess im luckly lol
I thought the lineup was pretty poor anyway..
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http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...ure-heavy.htmlOriginally Posted by xVisions
Shattered,
and i got my ticket off eBay so i dunno how lucky i gotta be to get my refund
Agree. Apart from perhaps one or two bands, the rest of the festival was a emo angst teenage girls dream.
I hadn’t got my tickets but was definitely going. Alter Bridge and Funeral For a Friend had me there. Van Halen was a bonus and there were a few others I would like to have seen.
It was looking to be one of the best so far from my point of view.
I initially thought it sounded stupid that a whole festival would be cancelled on the fact that an unannounced band cancelled as whoever had bought tickets had bought them on the strength of who was already announced. I actually have come to suspect that is an excuse and there may be are undisclosed reasons that are too embarrassing for the promoters to admit. Spewing anyway!
guess every one's doing there drugs at home now...
dont sweat the petty... pet the sweaty...
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IMO I reckon Aj Maddah couldn't afford to pay for the bands with the current ticket sales, so he hoped the release of a 2nd headliner would pump up the earnings, but when they said no, he had no option to cancel the event.
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My thoughts run along this as well.
Probably wasn't meeting the expected profit margins.
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I got tickets this year, mainly for Van Halen and was itching to see Danzig.
But yeah not real fussed its canceled.
Also...Limp Bizkit? Really? Theyve done nothing for 10 years and you want them to headline?
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Yeah Danzig would have been great to see, and I know right? Who the hell even likes Limp anymore
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Slayer of Stupid Threads
Yeah I was hoping to see Danzig..mostly to see Doyle play (if he would have played with them like last time they were here).
Beers & Blastbeats
Released album a few weeks ago, and an EP around 4 years ago. Latest album featured the original line up for the first time in 10 years.
Probably doesn't mean anything to alot of people anymore, but to me, I'm still a fan haha, from way back, the 3 Dollar Bill days.
But yes, sucks it was cancelled, but there were only a couple of good bands, the rest was Scremo/emo/angry yelling teenage crap
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After yesterday’s news about the cancellation of Soundwave Revolution, and with the reason being because a certain co-headlining band pulled out at the last minute, it begs the question, who was this mysterious band that was so big they could bring down an entire music festival?
Triple M music reporter Nui Te Koha revealed on Melbourne’s Hot Breakfast this morning that it was Aerosmith that was slotted in to be the second headliner after Van Halen. Nui also went on to reveal ticket sales were down, and that was ultimately the reason why the festival was cancelled.
“The organisers were saying they were waiting for a number 2 headliner, but the fact of the matter was ticket sales were lagging.”
I also heard Fred Durst tweeted that they were never on the bill for Soundwave so it wasn’t them.
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