Stereosonic

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Stereosonic
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Stereosonic Sydney, 2010
Genre Electronic dance music
Dates November, December
Location(s) Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne
Years active 2007 - present
Founded by Totem Onelove, Hardware
Website
www.stereosonic.com.au

Stereosonic is an annual music festival held in Australia in November and early December. Stereosonic is held in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, and Melbourne. Stereosonic is a collaboration of two major Australia promoters, Hardware and Onelove corporations, and presents a mix of electronic and dance culture music. As of 2012, it was regarded as Australia's fastest growing music festival.[1]

Patronage

Calvin Harris in Perth, 2010
External video
video icon Calvin Harris - Stereosonic Sydney 2012
video icon deadmau5 2009

The festival promoters originally began working in Melbourne nightclubs [2] forming the company Totem OneLove, which was in turn purchased by SFX Entertainment in 2013.[3]

The 2009 event was the first to see all five cities host the event.[4]

The 2011 Stereosonic Sydney was the largest festival ever held in Australia.[citation needed] 60,000 people were in attendance with more than 50 people charged for drug possession offences.[5] The Public Order and Riot Squad were called in after patrons attacked police who were trying to break up fights and to assist with other crowd management issues.[5] That year Stereosonic also sold out in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.[6]

The 2012 Perth event attracted almost 31,000 people.[citation needed] The 2012 Melbourne event was attended by around 45,000 people.[7] That event saw the arrest of 92 festival-goers on drugs charges.[8] In 2013, Stereosonic expanded to a two-day festival format across all five cities, enabling more than 50 international artists and over 300 local emerging Australian acts to perform.[9] This was the first time an Australian festival, held on such a large scale across five cities, had been held on multi-days in densely populated cities. Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Armin van Buuren headlined the event, with the Sydney event streamed online to raise awareness for leading AIDS charity, (RED) on World AIDS Day.[10]

The 2015 Sydney event attracted a crowd of over 48,000, with 69 people being charged for drug supply and possession.[11]

Incidents

A 25 year old woman became ill at the 2015 Sydney festival and died in hospital from a drug overdose.[12] A man was arrested on 4 December for supplying the woman with drugs.[13] Also in 2015, a 19-year-old man died at the Adelaide Sterosonic event.[14]

Lineups

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2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Headline acts for the 2013 festivals include David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Armin Van Buuren.[17]

2013 Arenas

2014

Awards

inthemix Annual Awards

2014[19]

  • Winner Best Major Festival (First year Inthemix has awarded nationally instead of state by state)

2013[20]

  • Winner Best Major Festival (First year Inthemix has awarded nationally instead of state by state)

2012[21]

  • Winner Favourite Festival - New South Wales
  • Winner Favourite Festival - South Australia
  • Winner Favourite Festival - Victoria
  • Runner Up Favourite Festival - Western Australia
  • Runner Up Favourite Festival - Queensland

2011[22]

  • Winner Favourite Festival - Victoria
  • Winner Favourite Festival - South Australia
  • Winner Favourite Festival - Western Australia
  • Runner Up Favourite Festival - New South Wales
  • Runner Up Favourite Festival - Queensland

2010[23]

  • Winner Favourite Festival - Victoria
  • Winner Favourite Festival - Western Australia
  • Runner Up Favourite Festival - South Australia
  • Runner Up Favourite Festival - Queensland

See also

References

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External links

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