Soundwave promoter takes blame

Over the past 24 hours the band has taken a bit of a battering in the press due to their withdrawal from the Soundwave Festival in Sydney, Australia.

The cancellation was mainly down to a flood which prevented the truck with their gear on it from arriving at the Olympic Park. However what didn’t help was the promoter of the festival coming out on Twitter and saying the band were offered a slot but refused to play.

After a couple of tweets from the bands official account saying that the REAL TRUTH will emerge at the bands solo gig tonight, the promoter of Soundwave, AJ Maddah has taken the blame for Garbage not playing at the Sydney leg yesterday.

It was a tough decision but we had to go with the one of the 2 bands. I made the decision based on a number of factors

The tweets in full read;
“There seems to be a lot of confusion with the circumstances of @garbage not performing at SW in Sydney. My vagueness has probably not helped. As most of you are aware, we had issues with Pacific Highway flooding and a couple of AWOL trucks yesterday. #Garbage. This meant that @garbage could not get their equipment in time to play their scheduled set. We tried shuffling times, stages, etc. And @garbage worked with us every step of the way, were very sweet and gracious even when it became apparent that the show could not happen. We offered to have the band play a late set as per @paramore but we were refused the option to have yet another stage run over time. It was a tough decision but we had to go with the one of the 2 bands. I made the decision based on a number of factors, including.. Which band’s gear was definitely arriving by the 8pm cut off after which there wouldn’t be enough time to set up…”