Parklife Cancelled, Listen Out To Take Its Place

The Parklife festival will not be happening in 2013, the festival promoters Fuzzy have announced this afternoon, with a boutique event by the name of Listen Out set to happen in its place.

The new event is a party, not a festival, Fuzzy say, and will focus its energies on bringing the finest in intelligent dance music (IDM) from around the world to Australian shores, taking place in smaller venues than Parklife did and scaling back its operations in general.

Organisers promise a return to a relaxed party with fewer stages, timetable clashes and people as well as more of a focus on the substance, sound and style of the music.

The festival – sorry, party – will announce its line-up this coming Friday.

It is a time of great change for the dance music festival by the looks of things, with Stereosonic recently announcing they would be making their festival even bigger with two day events all across the country.

The dates for Listen Out are as follows:

Saturday 28 September – Centennial Park, Sydney
Sunday 29 September – Ozone Reserve, Perth
Saturday 5 October – Observatory Precinct, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Sunday 6 October – Cultural Forecourt, South Bank, Brisbane

Tickets are available from midday Thursday 27 June for $89 + bf.

UPDATE: There has been a major fall-out between promoters following this announcement, with OutsideIn's Astral People saying Fuzzy's event is a “blatant rip-off” of their boutique festival.