With lest than two weeks until its kick-off at Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds on Saturday 23rd February, and the clash-heavy timetables for the Queensland and Sydney legs, the second lot of the Soundwave 2013 timetables have been released for what has been one of the most anticipated festivals of the season.
The popular metal and hardcore music festival has released the timetables for Melbourne and Adelaide, and while some of the clashes from the Brisbane/Sydney playing times have been addressed – most notably the Blink 182 and Metallica clash.
Instead Paramore fans who also want to catch the metal titans will have to content themselves with wading into the moshpit for the last hour of their set, while Blink 182 are now handily placed before Metallica on the first stage, with Linkin Park filling in the time between them. Fans of the Offspring however will be missing out entirely (though really, is there a large enough overlap these days between Master Of Puppets and Americana fans?).
With such a large lineup, with over 70 acts, it was always going to be difficult to avoid them.
Those ‘Special Guests’, playing early on Stage 3 on the prior timetables, makes a re-appearance, but only for the Adelaide Soundwave, sandwiched between DragonForce and Motion City Soundtrack. Who exactly the mystery act could be is anyone’s guess, but a likely candidate is Puscifer, the other other band from Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan, as their Australian tour dates coincides with Soundwave.
Soundwave 2013 Melbourne Set Times & Timetable
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Soundwave 2013 Adelaide Set Times & Timetable
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In other Soundwave news, new age restrictions imposed by the Sydney Showgrounds on the festival saw around 700 tickets re-released for general sale to the previously sold out festival following a flood of refunded passes that went on sale last Thursday, belonging to funs under the age of 15 hoping to catch their first glimpse of the world’s biggest hardcore and metal bands including Metallica, Linkin Park, and Blink 182.
Also, following deathcore band Dr Acula pulling out of the hard and heavy touring festival citing their imminent break up, another band have pulled out of the Soundwave 2013 bill just weeks from the event, but there’ll be no love lost for the dismissal of electro-punk duo Blood On The Dance Floor from AJ Maddah who is “super pleased” to be rid of the group.
In another hilarious flurry of tweets, the outspoken Soundwave boss revealed he had only booked the band on the bill because he was drunk, before turning on fans of the band themselves who he described in a less than favourable fashion.
The huge number of Sidewaves for Soundwaves 2013 have also been announced. The latest round of acts including DragonForce, All Time Low, Mindless Self Indulgence, Gallows, and Fucked Up. Thats on top of those already announced, such as 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, Blink 182, Anthrax, and many more.
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 / 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
For more information head to www.soundwavefestival.com
