Lost Weekend Cancelled At 11th Hour
News posted Monday, March 1 2010 at 10:00 AM.
Related: Lost Weekend.
It started out with bold intentions: to emulate Victoria’s ever-popular Meredith Music Festival at a natural amphitheatre on the outskirts of Brisbane. But even Meredith didn’t have the likes of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dinosaur Jr, Dirty Projectors and The Drones in its inaugural year.
The Lost Weekend has become the latest casualty of Australia’s summer festival circuit, and like Blueprint, it appears to be another case of too much too soon. The festival was originally scheduled to take place at the Ivory’s Rock conference centre over three days next weekend, but shifted to the Brisbane River Stage over two days due to an apparent licensing dispute. When organisers couldn’t cover the shortfall in ticket sales, they decided to pull the plug.
“After moving from Ivory's Rock to the Brisbane River Stage, The Lost Weekend has had insufficient time to achieve critical mass and we have been left with no choice but to cancel the event,” a brief statement on the Lost Weekend website read. “We apologise to the real music fans that have supported The Lost Weekend and purchased tickets.”
While the writing appeared to be on the wall from the moment a venue change was announced, festival publicist Marc Mancini said organisers waited until the last possible minute to “give ticket sales and the festival a chance”. The fact that media accreditation was confirmed a mere two days before the event’s demise is an indication of how close that decision came.
“We literally only found out about any news of the festival's cancellation only two hours prior to the actual press release going out,” Mancini said. “The last thing the promoter wanted was to cancel the event as he has already invested a lot of time and money in to the festival which he now wont be able to recoup.”
Full refunds will be available from the point-of-purchase as of this week, with Tumbleweed reportedly making alternative arrangements for a club show in Brisbane on Sunday night (March 7). As for the festival’s future, Mancini said it’s too early to speculate. “There is a chance it could return and the promoter may re-evaluate the structure of the festival, but [it’s] hard to say at the moment."
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So shit.
BRING BJM TO GP!
Surely all those bands would've booked flights too. Ouch. I'm not thinking of the internationals so much as the locals...
yeah, chuck deerhoof and bjm on the gp bill. second stage!
Keen for Tumbleweed club show.
International bands set to play the Oto stage are being rescheduled - keep an eye on http://twitter.com/room40speaks
Anton & pals.... Richie & pals... COME TO VICTORIA DUDES!!!! PLEASE!!!
woah - is lawrence in antarctica!?
i'm intrigued by this :~~~(
does that mean you have a long nose or a runny nose?
or a badly deviated septum?
I was wondering the same thing.
Bleeding nose?
or your face is wobbling rapidly with emotion?
The picture of the festival looks very clean and orderly. Nothing like GP or Merdith at all!
What is that photo exactly, Jose? It's not the Riverstage. Kinda looks like one of the stage from ATP Buller.
it's a photo of Ivory's Rock.
''Dinosaur Jr play The Zoo on Tuesday Mar 9. Tickets on sale for $45 + bf from OzTix from Wednesday morning. It will be loud!'' http://twitter.com/TimeOffMag/status/9802435299
No need to travel to Byron to see them, then. Stoked.
Oh thanks niteshok, I had no idea Time off had Twitter!
Tumbleweed now playing the Zoo in Brisabane Sunday March 7 cos some prick cancelled the Lost Weekend festival at short notice
we lose shitloads of cash, have had to reorganise all kinds but get to play anyway in a smaller club!!
see ya's there Qld folks!!
Brisbane?
yes, cos there's heaps of good vego restaurants there apparently
;p
Do you know yet who else is on the bill that night dirtylover?
looks like being the Ox - ex Forte boys + The New Pants from China
DEERHOOF, WOODEN SHIJPS, TENNISCOATS AND MORE at the Hi Fi Bar Friday March 5
TIM HECKER at the IMA Saturday March 6 (7pm, free entry, - limited capacity!)
OH MY GOD YES.
Gyroscope are doing a show on Saturday night at X and Y so it seems.
that hecker show is going to be insanely packed, i think. not sure which room in the ima it'll be in... but they're all pretty small.
the Tumbleweed show is now deffo at the Zoo with Giants Of Science + Ox
this was after many a venue swap yesterday evening, but the Zoo it is
This weekend just got very expensive.
Full sideshow details here
Friday 6 March
Deerhoof, Wooden Shjips, Tenniscoats, Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard – The Hi-Fi, 8pm, $40 + bf from here
Saturday 6 March
Busdriver, Hawnay Troof and Wagons – Rosie’s, 9pm, $10 on the door
Nashville Pussy, Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side, The Medicine Show and Sue Ray – The Zoo, 8pm, $16.50 + bf from here.
Tim Hecker, Curse Ov Dialect - Institute of Modern Art, 7pm, free entry (but spaces are limited!)
Gyroscope - X&Y Bar, 6pm, $25 + bf from here
Sunday 7 March
Lou Barlow, Monotonix, New Pants, Hawnay Troof, Busdriver, DZ, Oh Ye Denver Birds, Mt Augustus, Axxon, Tape/Off, Comic Sans and Little Scout, Rosie’s, 5pm, $35 from OzTix (available soon!)
Tumbleweed, Giants Of Science, Ox – The Zoo, 8pm, $20 + bf from here
Tuesday 9 March
Dinosaur Jr, Kitchens Floor – The Zoo, 8pm, $45 + bf from here
Some more deets:
Fans Find a Lost Weekend at Rosies
The Fans crew are looking to salvage a few bands from The Lost Weekend when they throw a Sunday show with Lou Barlow, Hawnay Troof, DZ, Monotonix, and a few other bands in what they dub as the Lost and Found Weekend.
The show will feature a combination of local and international acts up and downstairs at Rosies starting at 5pm – the entire line up is for a mere $35.00 pre sale though some acts are still needing confirmation.
Confirmed so far –
Lou Barlow (US)
Monotonix (Israel)
Hawnay Troof (US)
DZ
Bus Driver (US)
Axxon
No Anchor
Little Scout
Comic Sans
New Pants (China)
Mt Augustus
Villains of Wilhelm
Parties of Interzone
Little Scout
Tape / Off
Further announcements will be made throughout the week for the entire lineup – the delay comes at working out availability with bands from the Lost Weeekend.
...at first I thought you were suggesting them for the Grand Prix.
Ah, if I knew anything about things with wheels and motors I may have attempted to avoid confusion.....
I'd love to see Anton discipline a crowd of boozed up petrol heads.