One can hope
Since Soundwave's cancellation, promoter AJ Maddah has been fairly quiet on the festival chatter. Yesterday, however, Maddah took to Twitter to express his excitement about a trifecta of rock festivals possibly arriving on Australian shores very soon.
He wrote, "We may have 3 new rock festivals next year! Download, Sonisphere + Legion!"
Things are heating up. We may have 3 new rock festivals next year! Download, Sonisphere + Legion! #Excitement #Adventure
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) February 15, 2016
Sonisphere is a European touring rock festival running since 2009, having hosted numerous ex-Soundwave bands such as Iron Maiden, Slayer and Metallica and making the rounds in Spain, Germany, France and more.
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Talks of the UK's Download Festival, on the other hand, arise from a tweet from Download promoter Andy Copping, who told fans complaining about the lack of rock festivals in Australia to "watch this space".
@Markoz27 @DarrenWatkins @prime666 Don't give up hope, Marky - watch this space
— Andy Copping (@Maverick_AC) February 12, 2016
With crowd-funded Legion Festival scheduled to January 2017, we'll have to wait and see what else next year has in store for us.