Hole cancel Soundwave Festival apperance

Tue, 18 Oct 2011

Soundwave Festival recently announced their 2012 line up, but have already lost one band, when Courtney Love discovered her band Hole would be playing before Limp Bizkit.

Rumours had been circulating around the internet that the band had 'dropped out' of the festival after Courtney Love expressed her distaste for 'opening for Limp Bizkit' in a tweet to Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah stating "What bloody flight of crazed fancy made you think we'd open for Limp Bizkit dude? No offence, that's nuts." 

Responding to Soundwave fans AJ Maddah explained, "That seems to be the excuse. Funny that they reconfirmed after seeing the rest of the line-up and artwork."

Later he added, "Like we were going to ask her permission every time we book a band. No point taking her back, only for her to cancel later, or turn up and act like a rotten twat to other artists and fans. I am really mad about this. I was given so many assurances that this would not happen when I took the booking."

You can check out the line up (obvioulsly now excluding Hole) for Soundwave Festival 2012 here.