Where has that been announced? Eventbrite is still selling tickets to Maitland with no word of any changes. Their instagram hasn't announced anything either
They never did proper planning. They seemingly assumed they could piggyback off Maitland Showground's existing land use and general liquor licence to bypass formal planning approvals. When reality caught up by August, they rushed a panicked eleventh-hour DA that was dead on arrival. This event was never legally viable to begin with.
Everything had been ready to go ahead so it seemed it was happening until physical attacks had been made and also to the venue. If groups are threatening to act threats of terrorism and have already committed crimes, it would not be safe to go ahead. Let alone the police implications to implement a strategy for terrorism takes time.
Tracked this since June: here is the verified timeline, the Sydney venue math, and why you need to contact your bank TODAY.
For anyone wondering what actually happened with Frequency Forest, look past the media spin and look at the public statutory records. I’ve been tracking this since tickets went on sale in June, and the paper trail tells a very different story:
The DA was pulled, not rejected due to protests: Maitland Council records show Development Application DA/2026/669 was officially marked "Withdrawn" by the organisers on Friday, 18 September at 09:55 AM. They voluntarily withdrew it before council could issue a formal refusal for lacking traffic, noise, and emergency health compliance.
The Timeline Contradiction: The car fires in Melbourne happened on 16 August. Eleven days later (27 August), the organisers lodged the council DA swearing the event was safe and ready. They used a month-old incident to feed tabloid headlines on 19 September to hide an unpermitted event, only to walk back the link on their own Instagram statement on Sunday.
The Sydney Club Squeeze: The replacement "club festival" this weekend at Plaza Hotel and Carousel is physically impossible. Those venues have licensed capacities of roughly 300 to 450 people. How do thousands of camping festival ticket holders fit into a 400-cap room - especially when they are actively selling new $50 door tickets on Ticket Fairy?
DO NOT WAIT 8 WEEKS FOR AN EMAIL REFUND: In the thread above, people noted the organisers are asking for up to 8 weeks to process refunds by email. This is a classic stall tactic. Merchant accounts hold funds, and standard bank chargeback windows run on strict timers. If you wait 8 weeks, those accounts could be emptied or closed.
What you should do right now:
Call your bank or open your banking app immediately.
Lodge a Transaction Dispute / Chargeback under "Services Not Rendered / Materially Altered" (Section 158 of the Australian Consumer Law).
Attach a screenshot showing the regional festival was scrapped for indoor clubs.
Please share this with every ticket holder, group chat, and community forum you know. Operators who exploit community trust, hide behind manufactured political division, and leave punters, crews, and artists out of pocket ruin our scene. We need to look out for each other and shut down this cycle by hitting the merchant accounts directly.
Great post. Not sure how many people will see it buried in this thread.
Edit. Honestly this might be worthy of its on post. I don’t know how they thought cancelling (postponing) a 3 day festival and replacing it with Sydney club nights would work.
It has to be low ticket sales. Or they just expecting not as many people to get to Sydney. I’m sure lots of people got tickets that lives in Newcastle and regional nsw.
To those who paid for and were to attend Frequency Festival - FOMO events are deleting comments on all their socials and refusing to give refunds - expecting all of you who paid $140+ for your tickets, to instead attend this event (which as you can see, is $23 a ticket) : whilst promising your $140 will go towards a future date to see Astrix - a date they have not confirmed aka the show isn't booked to happen at all. Lodge a dispute with your bank to attempt to get your money back. Don't be surprised if you never hear back from FOMO. This is not okay, this is ripping off 2,000 people who worked hard to afford to spend a lil extra on themselves in a hard economy.
Dragon is on, the biggest and most beautiful doof in NSW. Sold out tickets but you might get some via Humanitix on resale. It was always weird this one was the same weekend as Dragon
It's not bullshit at all, there are several instagram pages that have been targeting this event as well as others in Australia that contain any Israeli dj's. Go and check out the instagram psytranceagainstzionism you will see all the posts and threads of them calling on everyone to email maitland showground aswell as all the other venues to shut the event down.
They call for boycott for Art Valley, Orin Aya, Wild Horses etc.
The saddest thing is none of this will effect the genocide even slightly, Netenyahu doesn't give a fuck about a 4000 person party in Australia. All they have done is lost the scene more money and created further instability.
Hey u/Brilliant-Sale8875 I'm not defending the actions of these organisers previously. I've heard bad things but I genuinely think this is an isolated incident.
I know several artists playing all have been paid, this event was supposed to go ahead.
Neither Orin Aya or Art Valley had such strong targeted campaigns of many people emailing the venues telling them war criminals would be storming their event and it's not safe. Please look up the instagram pages psytranceagainstzionism and all pages associated: https://www.instagram.com/bc_im_aus/
There are posts with hundreds of comments showing all the evidence aswell as screenshots from people who emailed the venue managers in Melbourne etc.
Art Valley also operates on the land owned by the organisers so that sort of targeted derailing of the event wouldn't work as they won't cancel their own event.
The reason I'm even commenting in this thread is I think despite these people fighting a good fight they are expending their energy in the wrong place and will only cause harm to an already suffering scene and it needs to stop.
I am definitely not prepared to go Clubbing as a Substitute for this event . Already purchased Sleeping Tent , Gazebo , Hired a Van . Friends flying from interstate . Planned a holiday since June . Still awaiting for what the new plan is from the organisers .
Thank you for the suggestions , but it looks like it is all sold out for this year. Plus we are 8 friends with tickets to frequency forest . They sent us an email: this is a Summary ,
Frequency Forest has been postponed, not cancelled, due to threats and safety/security concerns. * New date and venue will be announced by 21 October 2026. * Ticket holders get free entry to Frequency City Festival this Friday, Saturday & Sunday. * Most of the full lineup will perform this weekend, except some artists withdrawn for safety reasons. * Your existing ticket will also remain valid for the rescheduled Frequency Forest at no extra cost. * If possible, organisers are asking people to keep their tickets to help fund the rescheduling. * Refunds are available by emailing info@frequencyforest.com.au. * Refund deadline: 5:00 pm, Tuesday 29 September 2026. * Refund requests should be acknowledged within 5 business days and may take up to 8 weeks to process a refund .
It's not an excuse, there are several instagram pages that have been targeting this event as well as others in Australia that contain any Israeli dj's. Go and check out the instagram psytranceagainstzionism you will see all the posts and threads of them calling on everyone to email maitland showground aswell as all the other venues to shut the event down.
They call for boycott for Art Valley, Orin Aya, Wild Horses etc.
The saddest thing is none of this will effect the genocide even slightly, Netenyahu doesn't give a fuck about a 4000 person party in Australia. All they have done is lost the scene more money and created further instability.
This is getting intense! Free Palestine but I am blaming social media for this level of extremism. It will be counterproductive to actually helping the situation.
ISIS also exist for a reason, don't forget to wave their flag next time you get high on acid.
What i'm seeing here is a complete collapse of a moral compass, lack of self-awareness, and deep confusion about what kind of society you actually want to live in.
Boycotting a small event in Australia won't change anything in Israel. These activists should expend their energy elsewhere. They are fighting a good fight but completely in the wrong place. The world stage couldn't care less about psytrance festivals and want them gone anyway.
The entire scene is struggling so hard for many other reasons, getting every event cancelled that has even the smallest affiliation with Israel will literally do nothing except destroy our already fragile scene.
I'm starting to think the people pioneering this movement want a reason to tear down the scene. As if calling for boycott for small underground artists like Kliment and obscure bushdoofs like Orin Aya or Art Valley is going to do anything.
Who is boycotting Kliment? His name pops up on an open letter against genocide. I also wouldn't really call Orin Aya or Art Valley obscure, they'd be among the first doofs you discover.
I also respectfully disagree - Earth Frequency faced a boycott and handled it with grace. IM ended up shitting the bed despite that. Our scene has gone through ups and downs and is currently doing quite well, I wouldn't call it fragile - especially when it comes to Israel.
The only event that was massively impacted by anything to do with Israel has been Frequency Forest who already have a dogshit reputation for MANY reasons and were platforming 5 of the biggest Israeli names in psytrance.
Don't you see? This clowns pystrance festival has been affected. Wont somebody please think of the pill popping white aussie who started listening to dance music last year?
Ok please send screenshots of evidence of any Israeli artists on the lineup who openly support IOF an and gave private events. Please provide evidence.
what do you mean by "if they did this to create a political scapegoat because they weren’t making enough money to justify the lineup"?
Are you trying to say that they created multiple free palestine instagram accounts with thousands of followers calling for boycott of their own event and created posts telling the instagram followers to email the venues the events were supposed to be held telling them that war criminals and gang rapists were going to be storming the event?
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u/Onthegronk Sep 21 '26
These boys r suss as anything if you ask me.
I reckon the pages are legit.
They asked for a boycott but the festival didn't sell well.
Organisers did an insurance job on their own cars to get out of it.
Cars were burnt out for two days before they announced to get a few more dollars in the account.
Win win for them perfect excuse to cancel