Looking forward to catching the likes of Metallica, Blink 182, Garbage, Anthrax, Slayer, and the countless other acts playing Soundwave Festival next month? Well, if you’re planning on attending the Sunday 24th Feb show at Sydney’s Olympic Park and you’re under 15 years old… you better sit down and brace for some bad news.
Soundwave Festival organisers have introduced a new 15+ age restriction to the Sydney leg of the festival advising ticket holders under the age of 15 to contact their point of purchase for a full refund.
“Soundwave 2013 Sydney can no longer accommodate patrons who are under the age of 15,” organisers wrote in a press release issued this morning. “This supersedes the previous policy, which permitted patrons under the age of 15 to attend the event with a responsible adult. If you are a ticket holder aged 14 or under you are able to obtain a refund”.
While no further explanation for the new age restriction is given, Soundwave Festival boss and serial tweeter AJ Maddah has told fans that the new age restrictions applies only to Sydney, and more to do with the policies of Olympic Park, indicating that “the venue has changed its licensing rules.”
The Soundwave statement urges all punters to bring photo ID, but especially for those on the cusp of the new restrictions, those “born 25th February 1997 – 24th February 1998.” All attendees under the age of 18 are still required to bring a ‘responsible adult’ or guardian to the festival, and must also provide photo ID and mobile contact numbers to “be entered into the Olympic Park Venue Management System. “Soundwave 2013 Sydney can no longer accommodate patrons who are under the age of 15.”
The silver lining is that this the return and refund of tickets from underage patrons now barred from the event means that some extra allocations for the sold out one-day festival may go back to the buying public, who bought up the last of the final round of tickets in December.
In related news, a large number of Sidewaves shows have been announced in the lead-up to the February kick-off of Soundwave. Including announcements of sideshows from djent masters Periphery, punk Celts Flogging Molly, celebrated pop-punks Motion City Soundtrack, post-hardcore heroes Sleeping With Sirens, the soon-to-be-renamed Kyuss Lives!, Duff McKagan’s Loaded, a few more tickets for Blink 182’s Sydney show, and many more.
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Yesterday also saw the announcement of Sidewaves for Anthrax, one-third of metal’s big four playing the festival (along with Metallica and Slayer) but will be doing so without their guitarist Rob Caggiano who has left the band. Likewise Bring Me The Horizon, whose Australian-born shredder Jona Weinhofen yesterday announced he’d been dropped from the metalcore outfit just one month out from their visit down under.
Soundwave 2013 Lineup
METALLICA/ LINKIN PARK/ BLINK 182/A PERFECT CIRCLE / THE OFFSPRING / PARAMORE / SLAYER / GARBAGE / CYPRESS HILL / BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE / TOMAHAWK / STONE SOUR / BRING ME THE HORIZON / KYUSS LIVES / ANTHRAX / KILLSWITCH ENGAGE / SUM 41 / DRAGONFORCE / ALL TIME LOW / FLOGGING MOLLY / GHOST / DUFF McKAGAN’S LOADED / BILLY TALENT / MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK / MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE / THE AMITY AFFLICTION / THE VANDALS / SICK OF IT ALL / KINGDOM OF SORROW / FOZZY / THE LAWRENCE ARMS / SLEEPING WITH SIRENS / CANCER BATS / THE BLACKOUT / GALLOWS / MADBALL / FUCKED UP / VISION OF DISORDER / PIERCE THE VEIL / PERIPHERY / THE SWORD / SHAI HALUD / OF MICE & MEN / THIS IS HELL / MISS MAY I / DANKO JONES / LUCERO / WOE, IS ME / THE WONDER YEARS / POLAR BEAR CLUB / WHILE SHE SLEEPS / CEREBRAL BALLZY / THE EARLY NOVEMBER / SUCH GOLD / SIX FEET UNDER / THE DEAR HUNTER / CHELSEA GRIN / DEAF HAVANA / RED FANG / VERSUS THE WORLD / THE CHARIOT / BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR / CONFESSION / ORANGE GOBLIN / CHUNK! NO, CAPTAIN CHUNK! / SYLOSIS / MEMPHIS MAY FIRE / CROSSFAITH / NORTHLANE / SHARKS / O’BROTHER / MILESTONES / LIVING WITH LIONS
Soundwave Venues & Dates
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013
SATURDAY 23 BRISBANE, RNA SHOWGROUNDS
SUNDAY 24 SYDNEY, OLYMPIC PARK
FRIDAY 1 MELBOURNE, FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE
SATURDAY 2 ADELAIDE, BONYTHON PARK
MONDAY 4 PERTH, CLAREMONT SHOWGROUNDS
Strictly limited release on sale Friday 21 December, 10am local time.
For more information head to www.soundwavefestival.com
