Brisbane, you asked, so we delivered. There will now be an outdoors show at Eatons Hill Hotel on Saturday, April 15! The tour kicks off in style with two shows in Queensland before heading to Sydney where a second and final show has been added at the Hordern Pavilion on Wednesday, April 19! Also Melbourne will be treated to a second and final show at PICA on Saturday, April 22.
The World Is A Vampire Festival – April 2023
Saturday, April 15 : Eatons Hill Hotel, Brisbane QLD [NEW SHOW]
Sunday, April 16 : Sandstone Point, Bribie Island QLD
Tuesday, April 18: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney NSW [SOLD OUT]
Wednesday, April 19: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney NSW [NEW SHOW]
Saturday, April 22: PICA, Port Melbourne VIC [NEW SHOW moved from Hastings]
Sunday, April 23: Kyral Castle, Ballarat VIC
Wednesday, April 26: Adelaide Entertainment Centre SA
Thursday; April 27: PICA, Port Melbourne VIC
Saturday, April 29: Newcastle Entertainment Centre NSW
Sunday, April 30: Broadwater Parklands, Gold Coast QLD
VICTORIAN UPDATE
Due to the Mornington Council updating their Environmental Plan on February 7, that states ANY wet weather can lead to an event being shut down at their discretion, our event at Hastings Foreshore is now uninsurable and we’ve had no choice but to move it.
All Hastings tickets are valid at Port Melbourne on Sat, April 22 or at Ballarat Sun, April 23. A direct email is being sent to all customers explaining transfer or refund options.
NSW UPDATE
Due to the second show in Sydney being added, the Newcastle Entertainment Centre show has been moved to Saturday, April 29. All existing Newcastle Tickets are valid for Sat, April 29.
Due to circumstances out of our control Wollongong and Penrith have had to be cancelled. Ticket holders for the cancelled shows in Wollongong and Penrith are eligible to transfer to the Hordern Pavilion show on April 19. A direct email is being sent to all customers explaining transfer or refund options.
TRANSFERS AND REFUNDS
To transfer your ticket, please check your inbox for an email to register for transfers and do so by midnight, Friday March 24. Customers requiring a refund please check your inbox for an email to register for refunds and do so by midnight, Friday March 24. Where refunds will then be processed in a timely manner.
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1 February 2023
The Smashing Pumpkins will bring The World Is A Vampire Festival to ten cities across the nation this April and that is just the beginning!
The festival boasts some very special guests including alt-rock legends, Jane’s Addiction and killer Aussie rock from Amyl & The Sniffers, RedHook, Battlesnake and local acts opening each show. PLUS each show will feature professional wrestling matches between Billy Corgan’s NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) and the WAOA (Wrestling Alliance of Australia).
The World Is A Vampire Festival – April 2023
Saturday, April 15 : Stuart Park, Wollongong NSW
Sunday, April 16 : Sandstone Point, Bribie Island QLD
Tuesday, April 18: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney NSW *
Wednesday, April 19: Newcastle Entertainment Centre NSW *
Saturday, April 22: Hastings Foreshore, Mornington Peninsula VIC
Sunday, April 23: Kryal Castle, Ballarat VIC
Wednesday, April 26: Adelaide Entertainment Centre SA *
Thursday; April 27: PICA, Port Melbourne VIC *
Saturday, April 29: Nepean Aerospace Park – Penrith NSW
Sunday, April 30: Broadwater Parklands, Gold Coast QLD
* Battlesnake & local opener not performing at these shows
The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s, often cited as one of the most influential acts in alternative rock.
From the instantly recognisable harmonic riff of ‘Cherub Rock’ and the haunting ‘Disarm’ from their breakthrough album, 93’s Siamese Dream to the majesty of ‘Tonight, Tonight’ and the savagery of ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ from the 10 times platinum monster, 1995’s Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness which was the best-selling double album of the 90’s, through to the bands most recent releases 2018’s Shiny and Oh So Bright and 2021’s Cyr which featured the singles, ‘Solara’, ‘The Colour Of Love’ and ‘Wyttch’, The Smashing Pumpkins have been a mainstay in the rock world for over three decades and in 2023 will release their most ambitious work to date, Atum: A Rock Opera In Three Acts.
With their densely layered, diverse sound fusing elements of rock, metal, psyche, shoegaze and electronica, The Pumpkins stand apart from their peers. With over 30 million albums sold to date, the GRAMMY®, MTV, VMA, and American Music Award winning band remains one of the most influential bands in history.
Jane’s Addiction were one of the first bands from the alt-rock movement to gain both mainstream media attention and commercial success. The band’s first two studio albums, 1988’s Nothing’s Shocking (1988) and 1990’s Ritual de lo Habitual, were released to widespread critical acclaim and gave the world classics like ‘Mountain Song’, ‘Been Caught Stealing’ and ‘Stop!’ Fusing together a multitude of styles that ultimately led to them being labeled ‘funk-punk’ Jane’s Addiction created a sound all their own and their influence can be heard across nearly every sub-genre of rock music.
Jane’s frontman Perry Farrell’s influence extends far beyond the band and their side projects. He created the iconic Lollapalooza Festival which brought alternative music to the masses from 1991 onwards. This festival was instrumental in creating the culture we recognise and love today.
Melbourne’s Amyl and The Sniffers are one of the nation’s most in demand acts. Since winning the Aria Award for Best Rock Album in 2019 for their self-titled debut, and again in 2022 for their second release, Comfort To Me, plus winning Best Group in the same year, the band have toured relentlessly and gained a well earned reputation for their high octane, in your face live shows.
Their work has been praised globally by NME, Pitchfork and All Music with Happy Mag placing the group at No. 9 on their list of “The 15 Australian female artists changing the game right now”, praising front-woman Amy Taylor for being “one of the hardest rocking people on the face of the planet.”
With comparisons to Iggy And The Stooges, The Damned and The Divinyls, miss Amyl And The Sniffers at your peril.
Sydney’s RedHook featuring fiery front woman, Emmy Mack, create experimental, heartfelt and attitude-filled alternative music that fuses multiple genres including rock, rap, metalcore and electronica. They have been on fire since their inception in 2018. With over 2 million streams, a string of 5 Star reviews on Triple J’s Unearthed which resulted in being added to full rotation on the station and played the prestigious Download Festival in the UK all within their formative years! They’ve gone on to win the Unearth Competition, are regulars on Playlists everywhere and appeared on Aussie Fests including Download and Good Things plus they launched their own gender diversity-inspired alternative festival in Sydney – ‘UsFest’.
While now based in Sydney, seven-piece Battlesnake were forged deep in the fiery pits of the underworld. Their chugging riffs, soaring harmonies, virtuosic soloing and wailing vocals tell tales of wizards, dragons and kings of old…. With their explosive live energy, Battlesnake leave a trail of sonic devastation in their wake.