Australian juggalos rejoice! Insane Clown Posse have announced that they’ll be bringing their annual music festival to Australia in 2015.
For those of you who don’t already know your ‘Faygo Showers’ from your Spazmatic, the Gathering Of The Juggalos is the masked Detroit rap duo’s very own music event-come-‘tribal Woodstock’, which sees the twosome’s enormous cult fan following (or gangs, according to the FBi) uniting for several days of live music and mayhem. And it’s making its way Down Under next year.
The news comes direct from the mouth of ICP’s Violent J, who revealed their plans during a 42-minute seminar at the recent Gathering Of The Juggalos in Legend Valley, Ohio, as TheMusic reports.
“In the year 2015, which according to my Gucci watch is next year … Psychopathic Records will be putting on a mini-Gathering of sorts in the country of Australia,” declares Violent J (at the 12.30 min mark of the video below).
“We will be putting on a fucking Gathering, so if you want to come and party with us with Australian Juggalos start fucking saving up in your fucking piggy banks for that plane ticket. The tickets for the Gathering itself in Australia will be nice and cheap, because we love you. But for the lane ticket you’re on your own.”
J’s counterpart, Shaggy 2 Dope, added he was keen to once more see “kangaroos jumping around and squirrels with pouches on their necks.”
The announcement actually fulfils on a promise made by the controversial Detroit twosome during their headline 2013 Australian tour. On stage during one of their headline dates last December, Violent J pronounced Insane Clown Posse’s intentions to return for “Australia’s own Juggalo festival,” as this fan-shot footage of the band revealed; “We’d like playing that a lot fucking better!”
Previously named as one of the top 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years, Insane Clown Posse’s career has always openly courted controversy, with Violent J previously describing them as “the only group in the position in the history of rock ‘n’ roll that ever sold as many millions of records as we had and had as much success as we’ve had and it’s still considered a joke… we love to be hated.”
