Years active 2008 - 2015 | Dates 26 Nov – 27 Nov 2016 | |
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Founded by Totem Onelove, Hardware Location Melbourne, Australia, Adelaide, Australia, Perth, Australia, Brisbane, Australia, Sydney, Australia Similar Big Day Out, Splendour in the Grass, Ultra Music Festival, Creamfields, Tomorrowland Profiles | ||
Stereosonic was an annual music festival held in Australia in November and early December. Stereosonic is held in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, and Melbourne. Stereosonic was a collaboration of two major Australia promoters, Hardware and Onelove corporations, and presents a mix of electronic and dance culture music. As of 2012, it was regarded as Australia's fastest growing music festival. In 2016 however, the event was cancelled with the promise that it would return "bigger and better". Currently, there have been no announcements as to whether the festival will be revived for 2017.
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Patronage
The festival promoters originally began working in Melbourne nightclubs forming the company Totem OneLove, which was in turn purchased by SFX Entertainment in 2013.
The 2009 event was the first to see all five cities host the event.
The 2011 Stereosonic Sydney was the largest festival ever held in Australia. 60,000 people were in attendance with more than 50 people charged for drug possession offences. The Public Order and Riot Squad were called in after patrons attacked police who were trying to break up fights and to assist with other crowd management issues. That year Stereosonic also sold out in Melbourne and Adelaide.
The 2012 Perth event attracted almost 31,000 people. The 2012 Melbourne event was attended by around 45,000 people. That event saw the arrest of 92 festival-goers on drugs charges. In 2013, Stereosonic expanded to a two-day festival format across all five cities, enabling more than 50 international artists and over 300 local emerging Australian acts to perform. This was the first time an Australian festival, held on such a large scale across five cities, had been held on multi-days in densely populated cities. Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Armin van Buuren headlined the event, with the Sydney event streamed online to raise awareness for leading AIDS charity, (RED) on World AIDS Day.
The 2015 Sydney event attracted a crowd of over 48,000, with 69 people being charged for drug supply and possession.
Incidents
A 25-year-old woman became ill at the 2015 Sydney festival and died in hospital from a drug overdose. A man was arrested on the 4th of December for supplying the woman with drugs. Also in 2015, a 19-year-old man died at the Adelaide Sterosonic event.
2013
Headline acts for the 2013 festivals include David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Armin Van Buuren.
2013 Arenas
2015
Stereosonic 2015 reverted to a 1-day event unlike the 2013 and 2014 events which were run over 2 days.
Awards
inthemix Annual Awards
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010