{"id":727039,"date":"2026-06-10T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727039\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:51:11","slug":"froth-fury-festival-heavy-metal-event-will-not-return-to-perth-in-2027-amid-low-turnout-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727039\/","title":{"rendered":"Froth &#038; Fury Festival: Heavy metal event will not return to Perth in 2027 amid low \u2018turnout numbers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Alternative music event Froth &amp; Fury Festival has confirmed it will not return to WA in 2027 following low \u201cturnout numbers\u201d and rising costs in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Launched in Adelaide in 2021 during COVID, the annual heavy metal and punk festival held its first ever WA event this year at Perth HPC on January 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A statement to fans was released on Wednesday confirming the regrettable development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cUnfortunately we have made the difficult decision that Froth &amp; Fury Perth will not be going ahead in 2027,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThis is not the outcome we wanted. After an incredible day in Perth, we genuinely hoped to return and build on what was started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThe support, energy and response from the WA music community meant a huge amount to us, and we are truly sorry that we cannot bring the festival back in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">As a fan-made, fan-owned festival, organisers said they needed to protect the event\u2019s long-term future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">They listed tangible reasons as to why the festival would not return to Perth next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWhile the Perth event itself was amazing and everyone there had an incredible day, we simply did not reach the turnout numbers required to make the event viable for us moving forward,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cCombined with the rising costs involved in delivering a festival of this scale in WA, it is unfortunately too great a financial risk for us to take on again at this stage \u2014 even though this has been an incredibly hard decision to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/552083faed60d585d07ac40fc890eac4bb0b7a9b.jpg\" alt=\"Patient Sixty-Seven play in Perth in January 2026.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconPatient Sixty-Seven play in Perth in January 2026. Credit: Patient Sixty-Seven\/IG\/IG<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Perth metal fans expressed their devastation at the announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWhat a shame&#8230; and I thought we finally had an awesome metal festival back in Perth,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cAbsolutely devastating \ud83d\udc94 The Perth F&amp;F was truly the best festival I\u2019ve ever been to, and I know many share that sentiment. I\u2019ll keep my fingers crossed that one day you\u2019ll be able to come back to little ol\u2019 Perth,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Organisers said they hoped it would not spell the \u201cend of the story\u201d in Perth, and confirmed the Adelaide edition would continue in 2027 with a date to be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alternative music event Froth &amp; Fury Festival has confirmed it will not return to WA in 2027 following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,45],"class_list":["post-727039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}