Soundwave (Australian music festival)

Soundwave
AFI playing on the main stage at Soundwave Perth 2010
Genre[1]
Datesmid-February – early March; late January
Location(s)Australia
Perth (2004–2014)
Brisbane (2007–2015)
Sydney (2007–2015)
Melbourne (2008–2015)
Adelaide (2008–2015)
Years active2004–2015
FoundersAJ Maddah
Websitesoundwavefestival.com
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Soundwave was an annual music festival held in major cities around Australia, run and promoted by Soundwave Touring. The festival originated in Perth, Western Australia, and began travelling to the other Australian capital cities in 2007. It featured a number of international and Australian music acts from various genres, including rock, metal and punk.[2] The festival has been headlined by Deftones, the Offspring, Incubus, Alice in Chains, Bloodhound Gang, Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More, Jimmy Eat World, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, Iron Maiden, Queens of the Stone Age, the Smashing Pumpkins, System of a Down, Slipknot, Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park, Blink-182 and Metallica.

Soundwave Festival occurred annually until 2015. A 2016 iteration of the festival was planned, but its cancellation was announced on 17 December 2015 by founder AJ Maddah due to poor ticket sales.[3]

  1. ^ Soundwave 2015, Sydney: A Punk Perspective. MusicFeeds. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Soundwave Festival brings wave of black". News.com.au. 18 February 2010.
  3. ^ Vincent, Peter (17 December 2015). "Soundwave music festival cancelled". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 October 2020.