Soundwave 2014 ticket holders displeased with the festival’s recently revealed set times have made their voices heard, with promoter and organiser AJ Maddah announcing that revised timetables for Sydney and Brisbane are set to be released tomorrow night, alongside the remaining set times for Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth which were due for release yesterday.
Timetables for Brisbane and Sydney were released early Thursday morning and, as expected, a number of punters expressed their frustration at clashes, some of which have been deemed “unacceptable” by Maddah.
As well as addressing some of these complaints, the revised set times will also attempt to fix some unexpected logistical problems including requests from bands to move their slots and props which are too large for allotted stages.
Since announcing the revisions, Maddah has been responding to questions from inquisitive fans via his Twitter account. So far, it appears that:
- The revisions for Sydney are “not too drastic”
- Alkaline Trio are moving stages to accommodate longer set times for Avenged Sevenfold
- Panic! At The Disco and Placebo may no longer overlap
- The Gwar and Rob Zombie clash will be addressed
- The clash between Rob Zombie and Motionless In White will also be addressed
- Mastodon have asked to move their slot
- Amon Amarth may move out of the stage 4 annex and onto stage 4 because of their “giant fuck off fire breathing Viking Ship”
- Black Veil Brides and Suicide Silence will not clash
- There’s “no plan” to fix the clash between Placebo and Filter
- Our Last Night, Bowling For Soup and Zebrahead may have their set lengths extended
- Maddah has shot down speculation that the timetable amendments are being made to accommodate a return for Megadeth, who pulled out of the festival recently
- The Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth timetables won’t be vastly different from the Sydney and Brisbane ones
As a bonus, Maddah has also suggested that maps for all venues will also be released on Sunday. As it stands, the new set times will be released at 7pm tomorrow night.
Stay tuned to Music Feeds and we’ll have all the Soundwave 2014 timetables as soon as they’re released, or keep up to date with all of the minute-to-minute happenings surrounding this year’s Soundwave Festival on our Soundwave 2014 Feed right here!
UPDATE 4:52pm AEDT 16/02/14: AJ Maddah has announced via Twitter that “absolutely final” timetables will be released tomorrow afternoon (Monday, 17th February). “Sorry about the delay,” added the promoter. “Trying to resolve all reasonable clashed [sic].”
Maddah stated that maps would also be released tomorrow. Meanwhile, the official SW Twitter account has confirmed Maddah’s news, writing, “A message from the promoter: Final timetables will go up tomorrow afternoon. Sorry about the delay. Trying to resolve all reasonable clashes.”
Guys, Absolutely Final timetables will go up tomorrow afternoon. Sorry about the delay. Trying to resolve all reasonable clashed #SW14
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 16, 2014
@stevenhewitt91 I believe so.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 16, 2014
A message from the promoter: Final timetables will go up tomor afternoon. Sorry about the delay. Trying to resolve all reasonable clashes
— Soundwave Festival (@soundwavefest) February 16, 2014
There will be a whole new set of timetables posted Sudnay night at 7pm including Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@emmaafinucane Hopefully.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@TheWebbedLyric Slightly. A3 are moving to another stage so no one's set will be cut short on 3.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
Super happy to confirm that we will be extending @TheOfficialA7X set at #SW14! This will require some messing about. Revised times on Sunday
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@heavymetalgnome @Megadeth Nah. Too late now.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@t_bvb they wont clash. I promise
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@kainhardie @t_bvb Yeah. that was totally unacceptable!
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@GoobaClarke @TheOfficialA7X Yes. Quite possibly.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
.@TaffetaPunks No. early bands on stage 4 shuffle around a bit. Living Colour play in the afternoon. A3 move to stage 5. That's about it.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@oneeyedtiger_ Mastodon just asked to move their slot…
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@tazz1973 waiting on production people ro confirm if we can get bigger stage 4 annex. Otherwise will have to swap them w someone on stage 4.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
Jesus F'ing Christ AMON AMRTH's giant fuck off fire breathing Viking Ship has just arrived in Australia. It's fucking huge #SW14
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@SamWinks Yep.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@Chairman7 No plan on that one. sorry
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@Waverley73 They're all done so I don't see what not. let's ask @KickAssApollo aka The Art Douche, or the Douches Of Cambridge.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
@Markoz27 Not too drastic.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 14, 2014
