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British India couldn't make it.

This site disgusts me.

striborg kept saying no to the headline slot, no matter how much money they threw at him.

Interweb hothub hate machine

It's all your fault mess and noise.

yes, if they had been a bit less equivocal in their tame impala review things would be VERY DIFFERENT about now

what's going on?!!!

snore

And BAM! wins one!

well it does make bam! the only australian only festival in the second half of the year now.

jump in prestige!

All because Powderfinger split?

Theoretically, if this was on who do you think would headline?

I feel a bit like all the top-tier Australian bands are played out at the moment.

Wow! Just wow!

I feel a bit like all the top-tier Australian bands are played out at the moment.

Totally. And a small population over-supplied with over-priced, unimaginatively booked (whatever's on Triple J rotation) festivals all year through.

...see that BAM! organisers?

THAT'S how you cancel a festival.

too bad. glad their not done for good. remember when homebake did shows all over the country?

they're, sorry.

I am disgusted.

clover moore's foot on their neck for the last couple of years hasn't helped.

if it comes back next year, it woudnt surprise if it moved to another site, disappointingly out out of the city proper.

i'm glad my thread finally prompted the organisers to make an announcement. such is the power of m+n

But seriously, who are the currently active Australian festival headliner-level bands?

Powderfinger, Silverchair, AC/DC, Crowded House, Temper Trap (at a pinch), Dirty Three (even bigger pinch), am drawing a massive blank here.

(Not that I'm into them)

Jet
Vine
Angus & Julia Stone
Something Soundsystem (CBF to google the name)
The Rogue Trader
Sarah Blasko
You Am I
Gabriella Cilmi
Cut Copy
Daniel Fairweather

tugboat said 16 seconds ago:

You Am I
Gabriella Cilmi

you disgust me putting these two next to each other you vile disgusting heathen

This is a pretty interesting move by the organisers. If the reason they have stated is true, that they couldn't get the calibre of acts they wanted, then it's very admirable. They're at the stage now where they'd easily sell out with even a mediocre line up. Good to see them resist the urge to just cash in on the Homebake brand.

Maybe the golden age of festivals is over.

Apparently, Empire of the Sun, the Temper Trap, Angus and Julia Stone, Jet and the other headliners didn't sell enough tickets to their mates. Also the only guy on the Homebake staff who knew how to use photoshop quit a while back.

Well, m+n users did predict a festival would get cancelled today, they just fucked up on which festival it would be.

Too many festivals all booking the same bands. The festivals bookers get the Triple J rotation list and that's the line-up. Voila! British India, Washington, all those JJJ pop bands who rip off Vampire Weekend, etc....

The Presets could have headlined it. They're not overplaying at the moment.

Parkway Drive

not a fan of festivals and there are/were too many potentially happening. in china however.......there's festivals happening every weekend over there (and you CAN book the same bands for each!)

i'm planning a festival in sydney for later this year - can you all please start talking about it? ta.

Now we shall feast on one of our own.

Now we shall feast on one of our own.

Two thumbs up.

haha!

here's one from china (starting small....) and shit gets done even when they have no money.....

DETAILS

What: Beijing Punk Music Festival

Where: Mao Live House

When: Saturday, August 21, 6pm

How Much: RMB50-60

Up the Punx: BJ's 7th Annual Punk Fest

For all the hype Beijing punk music has generated over the past few years (see any of the myriad documentaries that have piled up, like so many dingy, breathless offerings to the punk rock gods), the scene isn't always as hopping as its enthusiasts might hope. Ask any of the capital's spiky-haired, leather-booted, suspenders-donning denizens - it ain't easy being punk.

No one knows that better than Lei Jun, lead singer of veteran Oi! band Misandao, and de facto godfather of the scene. ''In the last ten years a lot of really good bands have disappeared, and now even more shabi bands have emerged,'' he complained in an interview with City Weekend shortly before Misandao's tenth anniversary show. He continued, more recently, ''Fake punk is getting more and more popular, while real punk is never going to be popular. It’s this way in every country in the world. However, in other countries, real punk also has its own market, its own niche.''

Never one to sit on his hands, Lei Jun came up with his own solution: the Beijing Punk Rock Music Festival, which this Saturday will make its seventh annual appearance at Mao Live House. ''Seven years ago, me and the singer of Kill Tomorrow, Liu Ge, wanted to go start a music festival together, because at the time none of the music festivals around in China had our purity,'' he says. ''We still didn't have our own punk festival in China, and we felt that we should have that - our own festival, our own day, so we just went and started it.''

In the last few years, the event has gelled into a fast and furious force - the punk Mardi Gras, Lei Jun calls it - that's gathered a range of punk bands from around China and the world.

Its first incarnation, however, was a slightly more humble event, held at the far-out Goose and Duck Farm in Huairou, but including punk royalty like Joyside, Brain Failure, Unsafe, and (of course) Misandao. Since then, Lei Jun and his fellow organizers have continued to build the event, securing the more central MAO Live as a venue and adding a greater diversity of bands, including foreign acts. According to Lei Jun, all that work has paid off in measurable dividends: ''The crowds have been getting bigger and bigger,'' he says. ''The first year we had more than 100 people; since then, it's been growing little by little, up to last year, when we had probably four or five hundred people.''

Still, the festival and its organizers still suffer under a strain familiar to many of China's punks, whether they're organizing a show or trying to scrape up a few beers - money. ''There are too many problems, lack of funds being the biggest,'' Lei Jun moans. ''If we had money maybe everyone could make a really big niubi outdoor festival, like mountain music festival, with niubi equipment, free drinks...''

Till then, all the young punks will just have to make do with an evening of indoor pogo-dancing, headbanging, and bar (or smuggled in) beer-fueled debauchery.

Attendees encouraged to come out in their punk finest. Hair is optional. Studs are not.

On the Roster:

Trash Cats (street punk)
Soju Legion (fast hardcore)
Unregenerate Blood (hardcore metal-infused punk)
Discord (street punk)
Misandao (Oi!)
Hell City (old-school punk)
Early Bus (ska)
Human Poisoning (Tokyo punk)
Nazi Dogs (German punk)
DH & Chinese Hellcats (60s retro)
Dancer (music from Joyside's former bassist)
Unsafe (hardcore)

Its because they dont have The Fall

What: Beijing Punk Music Festival

Sweet! Will be going to Hidden Pirate Island (aka Hong Kong) next year hopefully for a looksee.

has love parade got anything to do with all these cancelations..just wondering

bring back the essential festival. i quite liked that, even though there were no trees and grassy fields to run in.

or, cockatoo island festival?