{"id":943658,"date":"2026-10-28T06:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943658\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:58:13","slug":"we-are-gutted-music-festival-hypersonic-cancelled-weeks-out-from-sydney-and-melbourne-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943658\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are gutted\u2019: Music festival Hypersonic cancelled weeks out from Sydney and Melbourne events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electronic music festival<\/a> Hypersonic has been cancelled weeks before it was scheduled to go ahead.<\/p>\n

Organisers confirmed that Hypersonic Sydney<\/a> and Melbourne<\/a> will not take place in 2026, claiming that scheduling issues caused a raft of \u201cflow-on\u201d problems for the event.<\/p>\n

The festival was slated to take place at Melbourne Showground\u00a0on November 20 and Sydney\u2019s Royal Randwick Racecourse on November 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are devastated to confirm that hypersonic Sydney and Melbourne will not be going ahead in 2026,\u201d Hypersonic\u2019s organisers said in a statement on its website.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to scheduling conflicts, Melbourne was moved to a Friday this year. Unfortunately, this change hasn\u2019t worked out as hoped for an all-day festival. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe flow-on impact has meant we can no longer deliver the festivals to the standard our artists and audience deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The line-up included Australian musician Timmy Trumpet, fellow Australian DJ Cyrl, Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren and electronic duo Bassjackers.<\/p>\n

Ticket holders have been told to request a refund or to transfer their tickets to Dreamstate 2027, another festival being held in Sydney and Melbourne in February next year.<\/p>\n

Both festivals are produced by Australian electronic and trance music event company Symbiotic.<\/p>\n

Hypersonic held its inaugural events at Sydney Showground and Melbourne Showground in November last year.<\/p>\n

An estimated 30,000 people attended the first festival in Sydney.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s troubled music festival scene has seen the likes of legacy events Bluesfest, Groovin\u2019 The Moo and Splendour in the Grass cancelled.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hypersonic made its debut last year with festivals held in Sydney and Melbourne.\u00a0hypersonicfestival.au<\/p>\n

Despite the tough climate, electronic music events and dance festivals have been traditionally well-attended.<\/p>\n

Hypersonic organisers did not confirm if the festival will return in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electronic music festival Hypersonic has been cancelled weeks before it was scheduled to go ahead. Organisers confirmed that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-943658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943658","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=943658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}