**UPDATE:**
Twitter, by means of facebook, has informed me that the NZ soundwave mini-fests have hit a snag, apparently, the council doesn't like the idea of 2 nights in a row of noise from Soundwave type bands, and probably the crowds it would draw into the seemingly, and based on my experience last time I was there a few years ago, non-residential area surrounding Trust Stadium: crosby, stills & nash and the cranberries are much better than a soundwave type crowd (they're upcoming events at the venue:
http://www.thetrustsstadium.co.nz/ )
Granted, all this news, including the NZ mini-fest idea is all completely unconfirmed & unofficial at the moment, but it all stems from the twitter account of the promoter.
To check out tweets related to soundwave coming to NZ:
https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23SWNZ (i hope this works, I don't really know how to use twitter but the thing to search is #SWNZ )
the Soundwave promoters twitter account:
https://twitter.com/iamnotshouting
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Thanks in getting my attention to the situation:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Soundwave-to-New-Zealand/108918035819405 The organiser for the Aussie touring festival answered a tweet in his twitter page stating that there will be a major soundwave event in NZ, namely two mini-festivals at Trusts Stadium, over two consecutive nights, Feb 22nd & 23rd the bands will be different each night with roughly 5-6bands in the lineup per night.
NOTE:
- A Day to Remember is (apparently and according to a tweet reply) on the bill,
- Marilyn Mason is not,
- System of a Down has some heavy rumours
- Lamb of God, The Black Dahlia Murder and Unearth are playing their own show, March 7th at the studio on K Rd.
- Having just had a quick squizz over the soundwavefestival.com site- there are roughly 94 bands on the lineup, which leaves 86 other bands that potentially could fill out the remaining bulk of the lineups for the two nights.
It all sounds like something that is currently in progress, but I don't know how these things work so whether AJ even mentioning it means its one band's confirmation way from being announced or only one band on the bill so far, I don't know.
I haven't heard of any offical annoucements dates (specifics, just wait til next week), or any offical annoucements (beyond tweets) for that matter.
