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Festival cancellation tracker
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Someone asked in the thread about Harvest Rock if anyone was keeping track of festival cancellations so I started putting together a list. Let me know what's missing so we can keep it updated?
| Year | Festival | When | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Byron Bay Bluesfest | Didn't return | Peter Noble announced 2025 will be the last edition of Bluesfest, no reason was provided |
| 2024 | Forth Valley Blues Festival | Before lineup announcement | Rising costs |
| 2024 | Harvest Rock | Before lineup announcement | Suspected inability to secure headliners |
| 2024 | Yours and Owls | Before lineup announcement | Inability to secure headliners |
| 2024 | Inward Goods | Before lineup announcement | "Taking a break for 2024" |
| 2024 | Promise Village | After lineup announcement | Undisclosed, but cancelled a few days after onsale, suspected poor ticket sales. |
| 2024 | Caloundra Music Festival | Before lineup announcement | Rising costs and low sales |
| 2024 | Spilt Milk | Before lineup announcement | Suspected inability to secure headliners |
| 2024 | Splendour in the Grass | After lineup announcement | Poor ticket sales |
| 2024 | Pandemonium Rocks (sort of) | N/A | Dramatic reduction of booked artists due to financial issues |
| 2024 | Dream Machine Bali | After lineup announcement | Supply chain and financial constraints |
| 2024 | Pitch | During the event | Extreme health and fire risk caused by hot weather |
| 2024 | Fairbridge Folk Festival | After lineup announcement | Poor ticket sales |
| 2024 | Groovin the Moo | After lineup announcement | Poor ticket sales |
| 2024 | Tent Pole | After lineup announcement | Financial difficulties |
| 2024 | Coastal Jam | A few days before the event | Poor ticket sales / financial difficulties |
| 2024 | Now and Again | After lineup announcement | Financial difficulties (caused the promoter to enter liquidation) |
| 2024 | ValleyWays | After lineup announcement | Cost of living pressures |
| 2024 | Heaps Good (Brisbane only) | After lineup announcement | Supply chain and equipment issues |
| 2024 | DLDK | After lineup announcement | Unspecified |
| 2024 | Vintage Vibes | After lineup announcement | Economic pressures and supply chain constraints |
| 2023 | Falls Festival | Before lineup announcement | Economic conditions |
| 2023 | Play on the Plains | After lineup announcement | Poor ticket sales |
| 2023 | Grapevine Gathering | Didn't return | Ran successfully in 2023, promising a 2024 return - but it hasn't happened |
| 2023 | Wine Machine | Didn't return | Ran successfully in 2023. Socials and website have disappeared, as the promoter seems to be focusing on the Dream/Snow Machine international events. |
| 2023 | This That | After lineup announcement | Economic conditions |
| 2023 | UNIFY | Didn't return | Ran in 2022 (albeit postponed), pivoted to a run of club shows in 2023 with no further announcements since |
| 2023 | For The Love | Didn't return | Ran successfully between 2020-2023, no return announced |
| 2023 | Nine Lives | Didn't return | Ran successfully between 2020-2023, no return announced |
| 2023 | By The Pier | After lineup announcement | Successful in 2022, cancelled in early 2023 due to financial difficulties |
| 2022 | Festival X | Didn't return | Ran in 2019 and 2022, hasn't come back |
| 2022 | Fairgrounds | Before lineup announcement | Economic conditions, hasn't announced a return since |
| 2022 | Festival of the Sun | Didn't return | Ran in 2022 with Government support, hasn't announced a return |
| 2022 | The Drop | After lineup announcement | COVID cancelled in 2020, reannounced for 2022 return before sudden silence |
| 2022 | King Street Carnival | After lineup announcement | Weather related cancellation. Returned for October 2023 "Off The Rails" event, but nothing in 2024. |
| 2022 | Grapevine Gathering (Victoria) | Days before the event | Weather related cancellation |
| 2022 | This That | After lineup announcement | Supply chain issues and labour shortages |
| 2022 | Under the Southern Stars | Didn't return | Ran from 2018-2022 (minus COVID years), no return announced |
| 2022 | Yours and Owls | A few days before the event | Excessive rain / flooding of the festival site |
| 2022 | The Squeeze | After lineup announcement | Uncertainty around outdoor events |
| 2021 | mostly everything | N/A | COVID |
| 2020 | mostly everything | N/A | COVID |
| 2020 | FOMO | Didn't return | Promoter went tits up after blowing all their cash on Nicki Minaj for the 2020 event. Liquidated |
| 2019 | Falls Festival (Lorne date) | During the event | Extreme fire risk |
| 2019 | Lost Paradise | A few weeks before the event | Extreme fire risk |
| 2019 | SandTunes | After lineup announcement | Change of venue from beach to stadium caused poor ticket sales. Mixed genre lineup that had many scratching their heads. No interest, very weird (but CRJ still made it here for her own shows). |
| 2019 | Mountain Sounds | A few weeks before the event | High costs associated with NSW Govt user-pays policing |
| 2018 | Sydney City Limits | Didn't return | Offshoot of Austin City Limits, ran for one year with limited success and hasn't come back |
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I went to FTL in Wollongong in 2023, that wasn't cancelled