Australia’s new Festival X to debut this year

”Australia’s most successful electronic music promoters teaming up with the world’s largest touring company": Stereosonic successor Festival X to launch in November 2019

News By | 24 July 2019

British DJ Calvin Harris will headline the first Festival X © Sony Music UK

Festival X, the new Australian touring festival co-founded by Richie McNeill’s Hardware, ex-Stereosonic promoter Onelove and Live Nation Australasia, is set to launch in three cities this November.

The festival, announced last August but ultimately postponed until 2019, fills a slot left in the Australian festival calendar by dance music event Stereosonic, co-founded by McNeill and Onelove’s Frank Cotela, which at its peak could shift nearly 300,000 tickets across five shows.

In its first year, Festival X will visit open-air…

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