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The Legion Festival, the crowd-funded event curated by drummer John Sankey in the aftermath of Soundwave, has released the following statement advising of changes to the event.

Ministry’s Al Jourgensen has made a scathing appraisal of Soundwave boss AJ Maddah calling the failed Australian promoter a “douchebag” and a ‘lying Scumbag” after Soundwave crashed and burned one week before Christmas.

As the Soundwave fall-out continues Bring Me The Horizon is the latest act to also cancel New Zealand because they are not coming to Australia.

Soundwave ticketing agency Eventopia has backed down on their initial refusal to refund punters following the spectacular collapse of the Soundwave music festival.

Soundwave’s failed mogul AJ Maddah has blamed “the haters” for the downfall of his beloved festival. Well he is about to get 18000 more.

Soundwave is officially over. There will be no 2016 event.

New Zealand music festival Westfest from Australia’s troubled Soundwave making it clear that the two events are totally independent of each other.

Soundwave still may or may not return for 2016. The business is struggling to survive.

Soundwave has dropped its 2016 line-up so far with the evasive Disturbed finally giving in to go on the bill.

The UK’s Moose Blood is the ninth act added to Soundwave 2016.

Bring Me The Horizon is the latest act to be announced in an excruciatingly painful slow roll-out of Soundwave acts.

Soundwave continues to roll out its line-up one name at a time and todays announcement is … (drum roll please) … Lordi.

Northlane is the latest act to be announced for Soundwave 2016.

Refused are the fourth act added to Soundwave.

Soundwave have confirmed a third act for the festival in 2016 with Failure joining the ranks.

Welsh rock band Bullet For My Valentine and Australia’s Dead Letter Circus can thank Soundwave for their ARIA chart success this week. They respectively have the number 1 and number 2 album.

Disturbed played their first show in four years on Friday night in their hometown of Chicago to launch their new album ‘Immortalized’.

Australia’s Dead Letter Circus are the second act to be confirmed for Soundwave 2016.

Soundwave 2013’s “Missing Link” Megadeth will return to Australia in October.

Disturbed decided to reform and make a new record in January, 2014 and no-one knew until a few weeks ago.

Soundwave is coming back for 2016 and Bullet For My Valentine have confirmed they will be on the bill and they have also announced the dates.

Green Day will perform their first show of 2015 in Cleveland on April 16.

Public Transport Victoria CEO Mark Wild has torn into Soundwave boss AJ Maddah for his lack of planning of the event and failure to give punters advance warning of the transport debacle.

Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah has called Victoria’s Premier Dan Andrews a “lying scumbag” over the public transport disaster set for the Soundwave Festival event in Melbourne next weekend in a series of provocative tweets.

If you are heading to Soundwave Melbourne wear hiking shoes. There will be no public transport including trains, trams or buses to the Melbourne event next weekend.