Update: Soundwave is now sold out across the country.
There have been many ups and downs in the Australian festival scene over the last few years and for every Playground Weekender and Good Vibrations that bites the dust, emerging new events targeting fresh audiences are really getting some traction. Joining success stories like Laneway and Harvest is Soundwave, which throws its horns and flashes its tits over a seething mass off stone-cold rockers. Black is the colour of the day and it’s already beginning to pull in the type of heavyweight acts the Big Day Out used to be renowned for. Check out the line-up and dates below:
Line-Up
Metallica – Linkin Park – Blink 182 – A Perfect Circle – The Offspring – Paramore – Slayer – Garbage – Cypress Hill – Bullet For My Valentine – Tomahawk – Stone Sour – Bring Me The Horizon – Kyuss Lives – Anthrax – Sum 41 – Dragonforce – All Time Low – Flogging Molly – Ghost – Duff Mckagan’s Loaded – Billy Talent – Motion City Soundtrack – Mindless Self Indulgence – The Amity Affliction – Killswitch Engage – The Vandals – Orange Goblin – The Sword – Chelsea Grin – The Chariot – Sharks – Northlane – O’brother – Dr.Acula – Milestones – Sick Of It All – Kingdom Of Sorrow – Fozzy – The Lawrence Arms – Sleeping With Sirens – Cancer Bats – The Blackout – Gallows – Madball – Fucked Up – Vision Of Disorder – Pierce The Veil – Periphery – Shai Halud – Of Mice & Men – This Is Hell – Miss May I – Danko Jones – Lucero – Woe, Is Me – The Wonder Years – Polar Bear Club – While She Sleeps – Cerebral Ballzy – The Early November – Such Gold – Six Feet Under – The Dear Hunter – Deaf Havana – Red Fang – Versus The World – Blood On The Dance Floor – Confession – Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! – Sylosis – Memphis May Fire – Crossfaith
Dates
Saturday 23 – Brisbane – RNA Showgrounds
Sunday 24 – Sydney – Olympic Park
Friday 1 – Melbourne – Flemington Racecourse
Saturday 2 – Adelaide – Bonython Park
Monday 4 – Perth – Claremont Showgrounds
by Chris Stead
