Adelaide City Council has agreed to wipe over $75,000 debt incurred by the now-defunct Soundwave Festival before it collapsed, essentially leaving ratepayers to foot the bill. The festival was last held in Bonython Park in February 2015, a year before the whole tour fell apart. Soundwave Festival Pty Ltd - owned by AJ Maddah - neglected to … Continue reading Adelaide Council Waives Soundwave Debt
Legion Music Festival, the fan-funded festival brainchild of Devil You Know drummer John Sankey - created in response to Soundwave's catastrophic demise - has been postponed until 2017. Those that have already contributed to the Pozible crowd-funding campaign received a no-longer-secretive update today, which has been leaked to the media despite no official word due until … Continue reading Soundwave Replacement Fest Put Off Til 2017
While the fallout from yesterday's not-so-shock announcement continues, with promoter AJ Maddah and ticketing company Eventopia still exchanging blows today, one band from this year's festival has started a crowd funding campaign to recoup their losses. UK band Monuments - one of many listed as an outstanding debt totalling $16 million AUD - has created a … Continue reading Soundwave Fallout Continues
After much speculation and shit-slinging this week, it's official - Soundwave Festival is cancelled. Promoted AJ Maddah has been fending off the rumours all week after 2016 drawcards Bring Me The Horizon said they weren't officially locked in for the festival, despite being on the announced lineup. Since then, L7 officially announced they wouldn't be … Continue reading Another One Bites The Dust: Soundwave Festival Canned
Welsh metal outfit Bullet For My Valentine's fifth studio album has launched, along with confirmation the band will be performing at Soundwave 2016. We're still a while away from the full Soundwave lineup announcement, but the band officially announced their slot with the release of Venom last week. A live video for the track Army … Continue reading Bullet For Venom
Girl was lucky enough to catch up with Cradle of Filth's Canadian keyboardist Lindsay Schoolcraft on the eve of the band's newest album release, Hammer of the Witches. Here's what she had to say: Hi Lindsay! How have you been? I've been great thanks! It's late here in Canada right now, I've just been hanging out … Continue reading Hammer of the Witches Falls
This year's festival has only just finished, but already rumours are flying thick and fast about next year's Soundwave Festival. What we can confirm, however, is the dates. Soundwave announced today it will return to the one-day format again in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in January next year. The event will be held in Brisbane … Continue reading #SW16 Dates Announced
At a time when many festivals seem to be struggling, the hugely popular Soundwave festival has had two huge blows this week. First, Public Transport Victoria announced there would be no public transport available to or from the venue this year, including trains, trams and buses, "due to other citywide commitments." This has led to … Continue reading Soundwoes For Two Major Cities
We are currently trying to confirm or deny reports circulating online today that GWAR frontman Dave Brockie has died. Style Weekly has reported that "several sources" have informed them of Brockie's death, saying the singer of the satirical thrash metal band, who made headlines on the Soundwave tour last month by decapitating an effigy of Australian … Continue reading GWAR Frontman Dead?
Founding Thy Art Is Murder member Lee Stanton has heard so many versions of how his band got its name he has to stop and think about it. "It's really quite a boring story, really," Stanton said. "I think there's been so many embellishments over the years the truth is actually pretty boring. "One of … Continue reading Thy Art Is Music
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