Soundwave 2016 Has Been Cancelled

After weeks of doubt and speculation as to whether Soundwave 2016 would go ahead, promoter AJ Maddah today pulled the pin on the music festival due to poor ticket sales.

The 2016 festival that was scheduled for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in late January was to include Disturbed, Bring Me the Horizon, Prodigy and the Deftones but earlier today Maddah tweeted, “I am devastated to have to announce the cancellation of Soundwave 16 due to poor ticket sales. I am very sorry. I tried my best.”

“Thank you to all the fans, bands and people who supported the event for the last 12 years,” he added. “i wish we could have ended it on a better note.”

I am devastated to have to announce the cancellation of Soundwave 16 due to poor ticket sales. I am very sorry. I tried my best. #SW16

— AJ (@iamnotshouting) December 17, 2015

Maddah, who earlier this week had stated that Soundwave would not be returning in 2017, has been on the defence with international acts pulling out with little over a month before the first show was scheduled.

Maddah who has a long history of being outspoken on Twitter, issued a statement yesterday saying that the ticketing company Eventopia, who he described as "some scumbags", had failed “to give SW a scheduled advance to pay deposits to NOFX and [Bring Me The Horizon].”

Soundwave which began as Gravity Soundwave in Perth in 2004, grew to include Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide and after the collapse of the Big Day Out in 2014 became Australia’s largest music festival.

Stay tuned for more information.