AFI Soundwave 2014 Sidewaves have been announced, with ††† (Crosses) as support, in the latest in a series of headlining shows from Soundwave-billed acts.
Returning to Australian stages for the first time in four years, multi-platinum alt-rock band AFI released their ninth and latest album Burials in October to raver reviews.
With their epic sound, a storm of synthetic orchestrations and volcanic percussion, AFI have amassed a fiercely loyal international following whose numbers in the millions. About the album, Havok says, “This record is of silence, of burials, and the burials that result from that silence. It’s of betrayal, cruelty, weakness, anxiety, panic – deep and slow – despair, injury and loss. And in this it is shamefully honest and resolutely unforgiving.”
Joining AFI for these Soundwave 2014 Sidewaves will be the musical side project of Deftones singer Chino Moreno, ††† (Crosses), bringing their unique sound to Australian fans for the first time.
Huge choruses and tight construction, make Chino Moreno’s melodramatic vocals dark, dreamy, surreal, and haunting, with the ambience and atmosphere making for a powerful live show that matches the intensity of Moreno’s Deftones, but with a more textured, restrained approach than their churning maelstrom of riffs and dense mood-making.
The AFI and ††† (Crosses) Soundwave 2014 Sidewaves arrive following huge last-minute lineup changes to the Soundwave 2014 lineup after top-billed act Stone Temple Pilots announced they’d cancelled on their festival appearance and sideshows just four weeks out from the event’s kick off.
Citing commitments to recording their first album with Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, Soundwave revealed that Aussie rock favourites, The Living End, would be replacing STP on the Soundwave 2014 lineup.
The Living End are the latest addition to the bill following a third lineup announcement bringing the likes of Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, Filter, and I Killed The Prom Queen, to join festival headliners Green Day and Avenged Sevenfold, plus the ranks of such bands as Megadeth, Rob Zombie, Alice In Chains, Korn, Biffy Clyro, Mastodon, A Day To Remember, Gojria, and many more.
The AFI & ††† (Crosses) 2014 Sidewaves are the latest to join a series of massive triple-headline shows, featuring Alice In Chains, Down, and Walking With Papers, Less Than Jake, Bowling For Soup, and Zebrahead, Jimmy Eat World, Panic! At The Disco, with Alkaline Trio, Mastodon, Baroness, and Gojira, as well as Rob Zombie & Korn, and Alter Bridge & Living Colour, plus Megadeth, Volbeat, and Newsted. Other headline Soundwave 2014 artists playing sideshows include Placebo and Clutch.
AFI Soundwave 2014 Sidwaves
TICKETS ON-SALE: MONDAY FEBRUARY 3RD @ 9am AEDT
TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY- SYDNEY, THE FACTORY – Licensed All Ages
Tickets: www.factorytheatre.com.au
WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY – MELBOURNE, PRINCE OF WALES – 18+
Tickets: www.oztix.com.au
Also performing at:
Soundwave 2014
Saturday 22nd February – Brisbane, RNA Showgrounds
Sunday 23rd February – Sydney, Olympic Park
Friday 28th February – Melbourne, Flemington Racecourse
Saturday 1st March – Adelaide, Bonython Park
Monday 3rd March – Perth, Claremont Showgrounds
Tickets on sale via: soundwavefestival.com, oztix.com.au & other outlets
