Queensland's BAM! Festival Cancelled
News posted Thursday, August 26 2010 at 02:00 PM.
Related: BAM! Festival.
Following yesterday’s shock Homebake cancellation, another Australian music festival has fallen by the wayside. Promoters of the inaugural BAM! Festival, which was scheduled to take place at the Ivory’s Rock Conference Centre in Queensland from October 8-10, have decided to pull the pin, citing sluggish ticket sales for the festival’s downfall.
In a statement circulated to media today (August 26), organisers said they were still below 50 percent of their minimum ticketing target and a further 80 percent away from breaking even. Last week’s 11th hour ticketing plea, which organisers hoped would yield the 200 tickets needed for the festival to go ahead, only managed to stimulate a further 60 sales.
Here’s the statement in full:
It is with great sadness and disappointment that we here at BAM! HQ wish to announce that have not sold enough tickets to run this event. As a result, BAM! Festival has been cancelled. After the release of our 2 for 1 offer, the slight improvement in ticket sales was last night decided to be insufficient to warrant the financial risk involved in proceeding with the festival.
While profit was not our goal, and our entire team were volunteers, our responsibility in being able to provide payment to our suppliers was paramount to our success. While everything else for a great festival is prepared, without ticket sales we are unable to go ahead.
We would like to thank every single person who has spent time and effort supporting and creating BAM! Festival. Your efforts did not go unnoticed, and we are truly grateful for your assistance.
To all those who bought tickets to BAM! and were looking forward to the new and different type of festival we were trying to create – thank you for your sign of commitment to the festival, and we are sorry that there weren’t more people like you. We hope that you will continue to be supportive of the local music industry in the future. Full Refunds can be obtained from your point of purchase.
BAM! is the second Queensland festival to cancel this year, following March's aborted Lost Weekend. Acts scheduled to perform at BAM! included The Winnie Coopers, The Barons of Tang, Dallas Frasca and Chocolate Strings.
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sensible.
I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY. You relentless pedants.
FIR... oh..
er... anarchist duck too.
this website disgusts me.
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!
Also, can I be the first to point out that the Barons of Tang's fans will be devastated? They have been talking this up on Twitter and on the Barons' forums quite a lot lately.
Shock horror!
kudos to them for bailing before losing any more cash, it would have been pretty gut-wrenching. i hope next time they start small, and under a different name.
Sketchpad
i agree with goal attack. they could've done a blueprint.
i am so sick of that BAM! logo...
what's going to be cancelled tomorrow?
Hate Machine, what have you done!
and i blame all these cancellations on the lack of stable government.
bob katter, fix this shit
the faceless men of the nsw right strike again
The music industry just takes and takes and takes..
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fattybombah, your glee at the downfall of BAM! is tiresome and unwarranted.
the organisation of the festival was a shambles, we discussed it at length, heck even had a bunch of jokes at their expense but I don't see what your point is kicking a dead horse now that the inevitable has happened. put a sock in it.
Sock is in. I assume you have also stopped reading this thread then?
in that article 57mercury linked to I canbT hget my head around this sentence about expoerience:
Even some of Australia’s most experienced promoters have gone broke or lost huge amounts on tours and festivals, often due to back luck as much as inexperience
that was a cut and paste quot
Don't type with your mouth full.
This week's Time Off, a Brisbane street press, featured BAM in the 'Front Line' industry news section:
''The controversial Queensland BAM! Festival has been canceled, citing that ticket sales were ''insufficient to warrant the financial risk involved in proceeding with the festival''. Concerns were raised when a member of the Mess+Noise music community managed to attend an artists' meeting, revealing that bands weren't being paid, but had the opportunity to move themselves up the festival bill by selling tickets (which cost up to $198). More headlining acts were to be announced once the festival was breaking even (the announced line-up included The Winnie Coopers, The Barons of Tang, Dallas Frasca as headliners with a plethora of mainly Brisbane-based unknown acts). There are alleged reports that bands might be responsible for refunds, having acted as credited sellers, it is unclear if they now have access to the festival ticket funds. Speaking to The Front Line, Julian Cue of The Barons of Tang said that while his band's situation was safe; ''Obviously there's been some sort of administrational problem and hopefully no one ends up out of pocket.'' The festival was due to take place at Ivory's Rock, where The Lost Weekend event was billed to take place last year before poor ticket sales forced it's cancellation. Festival organisers could not be contacted for comment (also, most of the festival's website has now been pulled offline.)''
Noneabove, secret agent to the stars.
Brisbane based unknown stars.
Hey!
I won't have you spoil my moment in the Time Off sun. (For about the tenth time, again unnamed. I am a sleuth extraordinaire,)
Everyone's a star in Brisbane.
Looks like Milton...
God. What a long and drawn out waste of time.
BAM!, the metaphor for life.
Looks like BAM is still going ahead.... in barcelona..... with a good line-up.....
B.a.m festival 2010
did peoples get their monies refunded? anyone out of pocket?
I'd be interested to know what happened with refunds too. Anyone heard anything?