BLACK FRANCIS (U.S.A.),
BLUE KING BROWN,
BRITISH INDIA,
C.W STONEKING,
CASSETTE KIDS,
CONOR OBERST AND THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND (U.S.A.),
FIREKITES,
JACKSON JACKSON,
JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN (U.S.A.),
JOHN STEEL SINGERS,
LADYTRON (U.K.),
LAURA JEAN,
LIOR, PIKELET,
LITTLE RED,
PAUL KELLY,
PLUG IN CITY,
SPOD,
SUPERGRASS (U.K.),
THE E.L.F. ,
THE GALVATRONS,
THE HOLIDAYS,
THE MESS HALL,
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (Canada),
THE PANICS,
THE POGUES (U.K.),
THE SCIENTISTS OF MODERN MUSIC,
THE SEABELLIES,
THEREDSUNBAND,
WE ARE SCIENTISTS (U.S.A.),
WHITLEY,
WONS PHREELY,
YEASAYER (U.S.A.),
YVES KLEIN BLUE and loads more still to come!
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Really? Where and when is this again blake?
October 4-5, I think
Homebush, Sydney.
SUPERGRASS!! yay.
the pogues!
POGUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3rd time....the Pogues!!!!!!
4thed!
5thed! And Conor Oberst, and Yeasayer, and New Pornos!
Although there's nothing on it which excites me too much, props to them for putting together a solid line-up which is not off the back of another festival (as they have been in the past).
HOLY SHIT THE POGUES!
THE GALVATRONS, AWESOME!!!
Can I just say, get fucked yes, YEASAYER!!!
SUPERGRASS!!!
PLAY SOME FUCKEN POGUES
i will be there. i love this festival, and at $180 for first release including camping there is no reason not to be there.
i hate to be the breaker of bad news but i heard that the pogues have pulled out. (read the great escape thread on bdo forumz) and now they aren't listed on the lineup on the site either. fuck.
grass is super!
SPOD!!!
SEABELLIES!
Very excited.
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of fuck, please no sideshow cancellations... So many awesome bands touring...
the pogues!! anyone know about sideshow for this...I cant be fucked reading the entire thread
Wow. This makes me really sad. I really wanted to go to this. One of the few good festivals left... :-(
They cancelled shortly after the first announcement, Actionralf.
take it bake to cockatoo island next year?
back, bake, hmmm.
would be great if they could. cockatoo was the best festival i have ever been to. but i would not count on it. hard to get funding together if you have had to cancel.
just call it a art show.
fuck it'd be good if they did that. even if they decreased the lineup and put more local stuff in to bulk it up. it'd be awesome.
Yeah, I wonder how many was 'not enough'?
I will be out of the country, but was recommending it to my friends. How sad.
wow, i wonder if they'll reimburse flights....
Im blaming Galvatrons being in the line up, tuned a lot of people off going.
what is going on here, its hard to believe that any festival could cancel just on lack of ticket sales so far out from the festival. was a pretty reasonable collection of smaller Australian acts
i don't know. if 2 months out you have only sold a small collection of tickets (a few thousand) and you need to get say 20,000 to draw even, then i can understand why you would be looking at contingencies this far out. if numbers were such that you stood to lose tens of thousands of dollars if they didn't change radically, then it makes sense to pull out sooner not later, so you don't have to honour all contracts etc potentially.
but they said themselves the early birds sold well?
maybe the pricing was too much?
maybe people were waiting for the second announcement?
maybe no one wants to camp next to ikea?
the second announcement happened a while back. the early birds sold out quickly because it was all people who had been in previous years and were on the mailing list. but the first true round of tickets had not sold yet, and had been onsale for a month...
They were pretty cheap too, weren't they?
Also... There may be clauses in contracts that do cause them to be liable this far out from the date. Cheap tickets + poor sales = lots of money to be shelling out of your own pocket if it doesn't make right.
Really really really fucking sucks though.
Festivals sell out pretty quickly these days, don't they? Maybe if there were poor ticket sales they started to freak out that they wouldn't make any money/couldn't afford to pay anyone.
Do they owe more of an explanation to people than has been provided?
that sucks
so why did supergrass and the futurehead shows have to be on the same night, damn it.