Coke Fest 2010 Cancelled
By JBagley on Feb 15, 2010 in Announcements, Featured
For those that were wondering, Coke Fest 2010 has been canceled owing to the Soccer World Cup. From Entertainment Africa:
One of the highlights on the musical calendar for many fans, is the annual Coke Zero Fest which has seen acts like 30 Seconds To Mars, Snow Patrol and Oasis take to the stage.
But, due to other commitments, there will be no Coke Zero Fest for 2010. Although Coca-Cola SA is due to release an official statement within the week, Dionne Domyan from Penny Stein Promotions confirmed the news.
“The sad news is that there is no Coke Zero Fest this year as Coca-Cola are one of the major sponsors of the Fifa World Cup so all their energy (and resources) have been channeled to this event,” she confirmed exclusively to us.
“We are however hoping for an official statement from Coca-Cola in the next few days regarding this,” Domyan continued.
As the excitement of a possible concert started to flare up, many groups on Facebook have been created, in a bid to influence the organisers to bring out certain bands.
On the wall of the ‘COKE FEST 2010 – SOUTH AFRICA’ unofficial Facebook group, the top bands requested by fans range from Paramore, Linkin Park and Red Hot Chili Peppers, right through to Green Day, My Chemical Romance and controversial rockers Slipknot
So until 2011, when My Coke Fest will once again grace South African music fans.
Meh. Cokefest sucks anyway. They can shove it until they can get some decent acts.
Will | Feb 16, 2010 | Reply
Yeah waist of time and money….well at least there wont be any bands to pull out this year…pitty…I’ve made some serious money on voting which band pulls out first…CCZero Fest managements sucks!
Riniel | Feb 16, 2010 | Reply
I think it is so sad!
We have never had bands pulling out before last year.
Yet people are so negative.
Grow up, Coke Fest is the only festival that has great international bands playing on one stage. The rest of the year we are subjected to Kelly clarkson and the Killers. Pass.
Looking forward to a rocking Coke Fest 2011
Mandy | Feb 16, 2010 | Reply
Ah well, I was hoping that more alternative bands would be selected. My Coke Fest with Metallica headlining is still the best, even though we dehydrated! Commercial bands are always being brought in and we are never exposed to anything else.
There is nothing wrong with The Killers or Kelly Clarkson, if you into that sort of thing, but the rest of us would also like to have something to look forward too. We would also like our music tastes recognized.
There is a market for other alternative bands like Disturbed ect and they don’t need a whole festival to back them up to make sure you attract enough people.
Korn would have been awesome to bring out on their own with some of our awesome S.A talent to open up for them.
Knave, The Narrow – just to name a few.
Yes, we want a Festival with known international bands but we want a variety. Have an alternative band and have mellow a band ect build the crowd up to something spectacular!! But then don’t disappoint them with the next Festival and then the next and then cancel it all together.
Helz | Feb 16, 2010 | Reply
We have so many other music festivals that cater for local bands and other musicians. Coke Fest is rock show! We need Rocking bands to play there. Previous Coke Fests have been awesome! Looking forward to Coke Fest 2011!
Jade | Mar 3, 2010 | Reply
Doubt there will be a coke fest 2011…first the booze pulled out, then bands…then more bands…then the whole festival…its just a matter of time until coke pulls out of SA all together!
Riniel | Mar 3, 2010 | Reply
Looking forward to Coke Fest 2011
Only if slipknot will be playing
Barry | Mar 12, 2010 | Reply
I can’t believe this bullshit the organisers are spinning us. That because of the Fifa World Cup their will be no Coke Fest 2010 due to Coca-Cola being a major sponsor for the World Cup. Coca-Cola is such a huge company you telling me they can’t multitask two events. They have the money to do it. Then we should cancel every event due to the World Cup. Oh by the way Coke Fest usually happens in April sometime. The Fifa World Cup is only in June!!! So I guess we just have to wait for the official statement and wait till 2011 please don’t have a major event then!!! I would really like to know which bands they were going to bring over before they pulled out.
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Vhizfakn | Apr 22, 2010 | Reply
Wish the Fifa World Cup have a very successful course
Chinese craft | Jun 2, 2010 | Reply
PLLLLLLLLLLLLEASE get FLYLEAF to be part of the line up!!! They freking rad!! also Uh huh Her, The Cranberries and Placebo would be awesome!!!hopefully there will be no cancelations and pull outs!!
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flyleafrocksmyeardrums | Jul 16, 2010 | Reply
Judging by CrapFest 2009 line-up we would have been subjected to bands like Abba, BZN and Bryan Adams anyway with a few unknown local acts sprinkled in between. Then Bryan Adams and Abba would pull out and the show would be changed from a beerless rugby stadium to a beerless miniature golf course.
We want to see big, currently well known, ROCK BANDS. Green Day, Chevelle, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Linkin Park, Kings of Leon, Deftones, Placebo, Slipknot… anything bloody relevant really, even Breaking Benjamin, Pearl Jam or Dave Matthews would do.
Haha | Jul 29, 2010 | Reply
Line Up FTW….Paramore,RHCP,Blink182,Linkin Park,Green Day,Jimmy Eat World, Attack Attack(Only coz it would be funny to see a Crabcore band in action),LOST PROPHETS!!!!
Really wish Coke would put up a vote/poll thing we could send suggestions to…and the popular vote is IT!
dKLO | Aug 4, 2010 | Reply
AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi.
NO local acts please
Visit | Aug 6, 2010 | Reply
dKLO: now thats an awesome line up
rockon | Sep 9, 2010 | Reply
i meant Visit. AC/DC…BOn Jovi that would be aweeeesome
rockon | Sep 9, 2010 | Reply
We here as management would like to share our thoughts as we think the public need to know what is in the pipeline. Coke will be joining forces with Castle Lager, to bring out all the bands that the people really want to see, but we will be raising the fees and the facilities will be as tacky as Cokefest 2006, we also will be have a stockholding of minimal beer quantities as we reserve that right, as well as the fact that we will be sponsoring all the local municipal policing authorities as they are on of our largest investing support instutions, according to Castle Lager, with musicians they would want to see ( Kurt Darren, Jodi, Justin Bieber, Jonas brothers to name a few)
So, be prepared for a rocking Cokefest 2011, bound to be the best of them all!
Cokefest management | Oct 1, 2010 | Reply
ahhh… i dnt mean to be a grinch..but theres NOTHING rocking about Kurt Darren, Jodi, Justin Bieber, Jonas brothers….i thought Coke Fest was for over 18s…or 16…no one over that age follows Justin Bieber with all their heart..and isn’t Coke Fest bout bringing the best ROCK bands on one stage..[keyword...ROCK]…so i think maybe to get an idea of what people REALLY want…read all the above suggestions…this way you gauranteed a good and excited audiance
Please don’t let us down guys..better sponsors shouldn’t mean bad music..this is COKE FEST…we expect the best from it..
dKLO | Oct 1, 2010 | Reply
DKLO someone is messin with us and posting as cokefest management. Don’t stress. I’m sure it will kick butt
mandy | Oct 1, 2010 | Reply
I emailed Big Concerts to ask about the lineup, and they said nothing has been confirmed yet.
Yvette | Oct 12, 2010 | Reply
Why did you bother emailing them? They’re a bunch of incompetent, useless idiots who are probably right now all getting f-ed up drunk at the prospect of having booked U2 for Feb next year. Like we even want to see Mr. “80 courics” Bono (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Crap if you don’t get the reference). So like we had the “oh sorry, no coke fest 2010 thanks to FIFA”, expect the same in 2011 thanks to U2
@Yvette | Oct 18, 2010 | Reply
We need Linkin Park in this country. The shambles with regards to booking U2 tickets have left many a rock fan…rockless. So the rock universe needs to be put back into balance by having an epic epic concert. Could we have a 12 hour rock concert in Cape Town Stadium! Lets have big names here. Lets face it after the world cup who doesnt want a piece of this country. Linkin Park to headline (probably would be the fastest ticket sales ever!), Kings of Leon, Rise against!, aking. Garunteed rock out sold out concert!
LinkinFAN | Oct 26, 2010 | Reply
Linkin Park used to be epic, I was a faithful fan until they did that colab with JZ. A piece of me died when I saw it. From then they’ve been sellouts, and sound nothing like they used to. Dont bring them to SA, rather bring a band with some balls.
bentz | Mar 18, 2011 | Reply
@bentz; I completely agree with that opinion (fact?).
I don’t think coke fest will ever happen again. Most unfortunate…
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