Soundfest Shame

Clearly a case of biting off more than your can chew. 50+ bands? Canberra? Yeah right.

50+ bands in the one gig?

There’s just not the audience in this little town to offset this unfortunately

Err Metal for the brain – which incidentally has now been cancelled amid rumours of public liability costs.

Hang on, the US bands are “trying to hit us up for more money”? Haven’t they heard of a contract? You know, the legal piece of paper that means that what you pay a person is written down and locked in?

Methinks that Brad’s not telling the entire truth here…

a number of the dance promoters here also think it’s kinda hard to put on really good, big parties, as they seem to lose money all the time

The problem may have been lack of variety in genres…. it seemed to be more of hardcore/emo thing from memory.. canberra can just support all of its genres. However if the thing was held in sydney it probably would have been a raging success.

50+ bands in the one gig?

There’s just not the audience in this little town to offset this unfortunately – hence the lack of ‘decent crowd members’.

Don’t go bankrupt though, try to work through it….

Hit up Stan the man for a loose $300k. The precedence has been set.