The decision by the NSW Government to extend the current Public Health Order related to COVID restrictions by a further month has resulted in event organisers cancelling the Sydney leg of Full Tilt Festival.
Due to be staged at Bella Vista Farm on 26 February, with Nortlane headlining a line-up featuring the likes of Thy Art Is Murder, Frenzal Rhomb, Luca Brasi, Slowly Slowly, Make Them Suffer, Hellions and more, event organisers cannot proceed with the festival 'despite exhausting all possible options to ensure the event would be able to go ahead'.Full Tilt Festival will still be going ahead in Melbourne (26 March) and Brisbane (23 April). All Full Tilt Sydney ticket holders will be automatically refunded.
"We have zero confidence in any of the state governments anymore," promoter Chris O'Brien says.
"They constantly backflip on restrictions with absolutely no notice or industry consultation. For the most part we have been disgracefully and completely ignored by the States and the Federal Government.
"Two years in and we still have no ability to trade and generate income as an industry on a national level. We have no grants coming in, no Job Keeper, no national insurance scheme so when the States do pull the rug from under us with no notice we are left high and dry.
"Where we thought there was light at the end of the tunnel late last year has very quickly evaporated and we sit here now with more uncertainty than ever before. They say it's the darkest before dawn. . . well dawn feels like an eternity away."
Today's news arrives just two weeks since the Adelaide leg was also forced to be cancelled due to COVID restrictions in South Australia. While the Brisbane concert in early January was postponed just 24 hours prior to the show going ahead due to mutliple members of performing bands testing positive for COVID.
Full Tilt Melbourne takes place at Reunion Park 26 March and Full Tilt Brisbane takes place at Eatons Hill Outdoor and Ballroom 23 April.
