The Weeknd:


The 33-year-old star of drama series The Idol was due to play shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

In a message to fans, The Weeknd said: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must reschedule the Australia/New Zealand tour.”

“New dates will be announced next year and current tickets will be valid for the new shows,” he added.

“Refunds will be available for those unable to attend the new dates.

“Deeply disappointed but can’t wait to be there with you!”


Rolling Loud

We were hyped to bring the full Rolling Loud experience to our Aussie fans. Sadly, due to circumstances beyond our control, we're unable to give you a show that lives up to the Rolling Loud standard, so we are left with no choice but to postpone the festival to a later date.

Olivia Rodrigo

Aussie fans left outraged as Olivia Rodrigo cancels her Australian promotional tour just days before her trip due to 'unforeseen circumstances' Olivia Rodrigo fans have expressed their outrage on X, formerly Twitter, after the singer cancelled her first ever Australian promotional tour.

David Kushner

US singer-songwriter David Kushner was due to visit Australia for the first time this month, playing headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne and taking part in the Spilt Milk festival tour, which visits Canberra, Gold Coast, Ballarat and Perth over the final weekend of November and the first weekend of December. However, due to “unforeseen circumstances”, Kushner has scrapped his Australian tour plans.

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What do all these music acts/promoters know that I don’t?
There’s still plenty of other artists touring (for now 🤞) but really strange how many of these happened in a short time frame.

Maybe promoters there are not exactly forthcoming with the cash?

Australia is becoming the new Western Canada. Welcome to being a large land mass that is far away from all the major cities that artists live in/like to play.

If it costs too much to travel to the place they are playing at and the profits aren't worth it, they cancel or don't even bother announcing tours there. For the last decade every "North American tour" by almost every major band/artist has only included Toronto, and if we're lucky, a show in either Montreal or Vancouver. That's it. 90% of the time it's just Toronto and a bunch of US cities, then they fuck off to Europe and South America and never return.

Way music is trending, soon will just be major fests in major population hubs. The mid level venues are all closing so you can either place in a small venue for a hundred tops or for thousands in arenas. No real places for like 500 person crowds.

And really just look at fest lineups. Almost no bands formed after 2010 on them.

Sounds like Australia needs to sort out its Unforeseen Circumstances epidemic.

Not all, but some I think announce a tour and put tickets on sale, if they don't see enough demand they cancel.


Cases where they reschedule are different

Nov 14, 2023 4:30:53 GMT RT said:

Australia is becoming the new Western Canada. Welcome to being a large land mass that is far away from all the major cities that artists live in/like to play.

If it costs too much to travel to the place they are playing at and the profits aren't worth it, they cancel or don't even bother announcing tours there. For the last decade every "North American tour" by almost every major band/artist has only included Toronto, and if we're lucky, a show in either Montreal or Vancouver. That's it. 90% of the time it's just Toronto and a bunch of US cities, then they fuck off to Europe and South America and never return.

Western Australia suffers this problem the most, same as Western Canada as you pointed out. It’s a quicker flight to quite a few other countries from Sydney than it is Sydney to Perth.

Probably the reason the Perth government were willing to pay to host Elimination Chamber and get some events as so many tours skip West (& South) Australia all together.

Rumour has it, due to The Weeknd being nominated 14 or so times, he chose to skip Australia and be at the Billboard Music Awards instead.

Rodrigo was just a promo tour, the album has already hit Number 1 on the ARIA charts, so I doubt flying 20 hours to Australia to go on The Project, guess the Aussie Slang with The Aussie Man and try Vegemite on Sunrise sounds all that appealing.

In shocking revelations, Splendour in the Grass is expected to cancel their 2024 event, just two weeks after tickets went on sale.

The highlight of the Australian music festival event calendar will reportedly not go ahead this year, triple J reported on Wednesday.

Splendour in the Grass takes place every July at the North Byron Parklands in the northern rivers region of NSW.

- The Australian

Grooving the Moo cancelled

We are extremely disappointed to announce that the Groovin the Moo 2024 tour has been forced to cancel,” reads the statement. “Ticket sales have not been sufficient to deliver a regional festival of this kind.”

- billboard.com

This festival was originally near where I live then moved to Newcastle. Newcastle residents are notorious for bitching about everything that slightly disrupts the city while wanting to be a global city. You can’t have both, so even if this went ahead residents probably would have bitched to the council anyway.



And there’s Pandemonium Rocks festival which was announced by 9news it was cancelled, then organisers said it isn’t cancelled. A lot of bands have removed this festival from their touring schedule so no idea what’s going on with this.

I have tickets to the Alice Cooper/Deep Purple sideshow so will be disappointed if it’s cancelled.

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Causes have been listed as cost of living crisis, poor line ups and just the cost of getting stuff to Australia.

Also dealing with other guests puts me off a lot of festivals, people constantly vaping indoors is the most annoying thing currently.

You could see that coming a mile away, the lineup was full of midtier local bands being promoted as headliners. People just aren't going to spend $500-1000 in 2024 without genuine drawcards.

Additionally, Splendour organisers fucked themselves when they burned everyone by mishandling the weather a couple of years ago and cancelling at the last minute, they were always going to struggle to recover after that.

Makes me glad I was in the festival demographic a decade ago when everything was at its peak. 

Mar 27, 2024 4:52:55 GMT System said:

In shocking revelations, Splendour in the Grass is expected to cancel their 2024 event, just two weeks after tickets went on sale.

The highlight of the Australian music festival event calendar will reportedly not go ahead this year, triple J reported on Wednesday.

Splendour in the Grass takes place every July at the North Byron Parklands in the northern rivers region of NSW.

- The Australian

Grooving the Moo cancelled

We are extremely disappointed to announce that the Groovin the Moo 2024 tour has been forced to cancel,” reads the statement. “Ticket sales have not been sufficient to deliver a regional festival of this kind.”

- billboard.com

This festival was originally near where I live then moved to Newcastle. Newcastle residents are notorious for bitching about everything that slightly disrupts the city while wanting to be a global city. You can’t have both, so even if this went ahead residents probably would have bitched to the council anyway.



And there’s Pandemonium Rocks festival which was announced by 9news it was cancelled, then organisers said it isn’t cancelled. A lot of bands have removed this festival from their touring schedule so no idea what’s going on with this.

I have tickets to the Alice Cooper/Deep Purple sideshow so will be disappointed if it’s cancelled.

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Causes have been listed as cost of living crisis, poor line ups and just the cost of getting stuff to Australia.

Also dealing with other guests puts me off a lot of festivals, people constantly vaping indoors is the most annoying thing currently.

I have tickets for this one...
Not something I was super keen to see but a friend asked me and I never do anything so I said yes.

Australia is crazy now how much everything costs.
What it costs to put on a festival or pretty much anything works out so much more than people are willing to pay... And the spiral is the higher the price, the higher the expectations.

iNCY

Assuming you mean Pandemonium, still radio silence on what’s happening. Expecting a cancellation announcement any moment, was meant to be announcement on Tuesday after they announced festival was downsizing to one stage.

Wish I knew the promoter had a bad reputation before hand, I just really liked the line up.

Scam festivals are becoming commonplace these days. The culture seems to be run these shows for max profit, then once any little thing goes wrong they crumble. Maybe I will make a thread on the insanity of them later, but had a few in the US that went to total shit.

Also they will almost never cancel as that means giving back cash. Instead of they will deliver a halfass experience using card subject to change shit and hoping for the best legally. Part of what creates the whole disaster experience is going in from day one the promoters knowing they cannot deliver, but wanting to keep that sweet sweet cash.
  
Incy going to see Dead Kennedys is something I def did not have on my 2024 bingo card.  Maybe this is fate preventing you from being exposed to Jello's socialist ranting...

Apr 3, 2024 14:43:44 GMT System said:

iNCY

Assuming you mean Pandemonium, still radio silence on what’s happening. Expecting a cancellation announcement any moment, was meant to be announcement on Tuesday after they announced festival was downsizing to one stage.

Wish I knew the promoter had a bad reputation before hand, I just really liked the line up.

Yeah... I got asked to go because my best mate is a mad Depp Purple fan, I like them too but he buys their new albums.
Deep Purple have pulled out and Placebo, sort of gives people the right to ask for a refund.

Crazy the website still shows the original line-up when you buy tickets.

Seems a lot of companies with these festivals are following the kickstarter model.
Sell as many tickets as you can and see if you have a viable product, I think the music industry will get jack of this pretty quick and touring bands will demand up front deposits.

I gather that's why bands are cancelling? Some progress payment they haven't received?
I have no idea, but I expect that is how these things work.

c No, Dead Kennedy's weren't really on my radar.

Apr 3, 2024 14:43:44 GMT System said:

Wish I knew the promoter had a bad reputation before hand, I just really liked the line up.

If anyone should have known you can't trust someone who had been in the wrestling business....

Apr 4, 2024 0:13:23 GMT @admin said:

Apr 3, 2024 14:43:44 GMT System said:

Wish I knew the promoter had a bad reputation before hand, I just really liked the line up.

If anyone should have known you can't trust someone who had been in the wrestling business....

Brutal yet accurate :lol:

Despite all the pandemonium around the festival it ended up being great.

Wolfmother did their best with a short set, Psychedelic Fur were great and knew much more Blondie songs than I thought.

The whole event was seated which is wise considering most of the crowd was 50+, all good until everyone decided to stand up for Alice.



Other than that really fun night and System Snr enjoyed it too.

I really enjoyed Alice Cooper's set, he hasn't lost anything.
Blondie was good even if the vocals were lacking.
Psychedelic furs were ordinary and the surprise hit for me was Wheatus.