Scorpions, Wolfmother, Third Eye Blind, Taking Back Sunday and The Get
Up Kids joins local legends Wings, Butterfingers, Alleycats, Zainal Abidin and
more as Malaysia’s premier rock festival reveals its first phase line-up
The Livescape Group today announced that its highly
anticipated rock platform, Rockaway, will be making a return this year. The
festival which took a break for the last 3 years, is dubbed as Malaysia’s
premier rock festival and has in the past featured the likes of Bring Me The
Horizon, Dashboard Confessional, You Me At Six, Sum 41, and Paramore among many
others.
“We have taken a
while to reintroduce Rockaway because we were planning something huge. And with
the line-up that we have announced today, I think the rock fans not just from
Malaysia, but also regionally, are going to be very excited. We have managed to
put together a legendary list of bands from Scorpions, to Butterfingers’ long
awaited comeback in close to seven years”, Rahul Kukreja, Director of Live
Events of The Livescape Group said.
Rockaway’s return
in 2016 however, will be marked by not one but two major festivals. The first, a
two-day event to be held at Sepang International Circuit on October 29 &
30. The event which will be branded as the “Rockaway Weekender” will feature legendary
rockers Scorpions, local legends Wings and Muzza’s Mayhem on Day 1 (October
29).
Day 2 (October 30)
will see the likes of Wolfmother, and regional acts such as WTNSS, Daarchlea, and
Artefacts. According to organisers, they will be looking to add “one or two
more international headliners” for this day.
With over 10,000
fans expected on each day, the Rockaway Weekender will be held at the B
Hillstand at Sepang International Circuit that overlooks turns 13 to 14 of the
track. This allows concert-goers to also watch the MotoGP race from the
Rockaway Arena.
Following on from
the Rockaway Weekender, the second Rockaway festival, dubbed as Rockaway The
Saga Continues, takes place on November 19 at Extreme Park, Bukit
Jalil. Rockaway The Saga Continues will see the likes of Third Eye Blind,
Taking Back Sunday, and The Get Up Kids performing live in Malaysia.
The second Rockaway
festival will also feature a nostalgic return for local heroes Butterfingers,
who will be putting on their first full performance in close to 7 years which
also marks their 20th anniversary show at Rockaway The Saga
Continues. Other nostalgic performances include Zainal Abidin (30th
anniversary show), One Buck Short (13th anniversary show), and the
return of Alleycats.
The festival will also feature a one-of-a-kind
collaboration between the founding members of OAG and Hujan where they will be
sharing a stage in a live “band battle”. Reunions are also in place for iconic
rockers LyMe who will be returning for a one-off performance at Rockaway.
Both the Rockaway Weekender and
Rockaway The Saga Continues festivals are supported by Malaysia Major Events
(MME), a division of Malaysia
Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB), an agency under the Ministry of Tourism and Culture
Malaysia. The hosting of this event will strengthen the Government’s ongoing
effort to solidify Malaysia’s global appeal as a leading Asian destination for
major live entertainment performances, and is expected to reap up to RM 30
million in tourist expenditure.
“In the last few years, we have seen a positive rise in
tourists travelling from all over the world to attend our music events, which
have become a key driver for tourism and our economy. Rockaway showcases
Malaysia’s capabilities in bringing popular, award-winning international acts
to our shores, which will help to attract significant number of foreign
audiences, thus complementing the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia’s
efforts to achieve 36 million tourist arrivals and RM168 billion tourism
receipts by the year 2020,” said Tony
Nagamaiah, General Manager, Malaysia Major Events.
Tickets to both
festivals are available for sale now via www.galactix.asia. Alternatively,
fans can head down to A Sunday Rockaway Affair at TREC Kuala Lumpur on Sunday,
August 28, to purchase tickets at a 15% discount. The promo is valid for
one-day only. Tickets are available from RM98 in the categories of single day
passes, two-day weekend passes for the Rockaway Weekend or a Rock Passport for
all three shows.
For more
information on both the Rockaway Weekender on October 29 & 30 and Rockaway
The Saga Continues on November 19, logon to www.rockawayfest.com or www.facebook.com/rockawayfest.
Alternatively, fans can also follow Rockaway on Instagram via the handle @RockawayFest. Rockaway is organised by The Livescape Group and
supported by MME, a division of MyCEB, an agency under the Ministry
of Tourism and Culture, Malaysia. Other partners include Red Bull
Product of Europe (Official Energy Drink), RedBull.Com (Official Media
Partner) and PARKROYAL Kuala Lumpur (Official Hotel).
First Phase List of Line-up:
Rockaway Weekender
(Day 1 – October 29 @ B Hillstand, Sepang International Circuit)
·
Scorpions
·
Wings
·
Muzza’s
Mayhem
Rockaway Weekender
(Day 2 – October 30 @ B Hillstand, Sepang International Circuit)
·
Wolfmother
·
Artefacts
·
Daarchlea
(MY)
·
WTNSS
·
+
Many more
Rockaway The Saga
Continues (November 19 @ Extreme Park,
Bukit Jalil National Sports Complex)
·
Butterfingers
(20th Anniversary Rockaway Special)
·
Alleycats
·
Zainal
Abidin (30th Anniversary Rockaway Special)
·
Third
Eye Blind
·
Taking
Back Sunday
·
The
Get Up Kids
·
Hujan
X Radhi OAG
·
One
Buck Short (15th Anniversary Rockaway Special)
·
LyMe
·
Prana
·
The
Summer State (SG)
·
The
Changchuters (ID)
·
Killeur
Calculateur
·
M.U.Z.E.
·
Dirgahayu
·
Pitahati
·
Eat
Sh*t & Die
·
Man
Under Zero Effect
·
Tokokilat
·
Son
of a Policeman
·
Speedwitches
About Malaysia
Major Events
Malaysia Major Events (MME) is a division of Malaysia Convention &
Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB), an agency under the Ministry of Tourism and Culture,
Malaysia (MoTAC). MME was established under the Government’s Economic
Transformation Programme (ETP) to identify, promote, facilitate as well as
support viable international events to be staged in Malaysia. With its main
objective to enhance Malaysia’s economic growth and profile, MME is also tasked
with identifying and supporting major event bids in sports, arts, lifestyles
and entertainment events and providing assistance to home-grown and home-hosted
events in order to further strengthen Malaysia’s global appeal as the venue of
choice for major events in the region. MME also acts as a conduit between the
public and private sectors in ensuring seamless processes are achieved through
synergistic relationships with diverse event stakeholders in staging successful
events in Malaysia.
About The Livescape Group
The Livescape Group is a youth-centric music and creative events group
of companies, specialising in conceptualising and executing formidable creative
and activation platforms for some of the best known brands on the planet. We
don’t do the ordinary and dare to try new ideas. This belief has driven us to
be one of the key players in the Malaysian and Southeast Asian live events
market.
At Livescape, we believe in a 360-degree approach to conceiving,
marketing and executing events while injecting fun and sass into the work we
do. We have an in-house marketing, creative design, event production, logistics
management, and artist management and booking team to ensure that we put on a
show people will not only remember but also talk about. Among those include
Future Music Festival Asia, IT’S THE SHIP, A State of Trance, Rockaway
Festival, and After Dark Social Club (ADSC).
The Livescape Group also consists of:
- Livescape Singapore Pte. Ltd. -
Livescape’s first foreign office based out of Malaysia which operates as
both a live events organiser and a creative events and activation agency
- Livescape Events - A world-class
creative and event production arm that supports the The Livescape Group’s
platforms. Livescape Events also provides customised event solutions for
television and corporate lifestyle clients such as CHANEL, Superdry,
RedBull, Asia’s Got Talent, Supermodelme, and the Ironman Triathlon among
others
- After Dark
Agency -
Curators and brand owners of the underground club night, After Dark Social
Club (ADSC), which aims to experiment and expose lesser known Electronic
Dance Music genres to the masses. After Dark Agency is also an artiste
management and touring company and is predominantly responsible for
engaging the various international acts for The Livescape Group’s brands
such as Future Music Festival Asia and IT’S THE SHIP. The agency also
provides talents to promoters around the region.
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