After months of tweets, venue wrangling and announcement date shifts, Soundwave Revolution has finally announced its full line-up. But not without a minor slip-up.

Promoter AJ Maddah claimed earlier in the day that the line-up would be released at 9:53pm this evening. But fans were surprised to find the offical site live at 9pm, toting the finalised line-up. "Well, announcement is out early", tweeted Maddah. "What do you know! Go to website."

The new additions to the pointy end of the line-up are:

Van Halen (with David Lee Roth)
Hole
Alice Cooper
Machine Head
Danzig
Bad Religion
Altar Bridge
Versa Emerge
Sisters of Mercy
The Pretty Reckless

At a glance, organisers appear to have their diplomatic work cut out for them once the headliners hit Australian turf. Van Halen were in the news recently thanks to former singer Sammy Hagar's tell-all book detailing lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen's sad descent into booze and drugs. Hagar also stated recently that "he's heard" that Van Halen's current recording sessions are mired in acrimony. Eslewhere, it's not quite crystal clear who will be in the band that human-headline Courtney Love will bring to Australia under the Hole moniker—while the current line-up contains no other original members of the band, Love has been seen in public recently with Live Through This-era members Eric Erlandson, Melissa Auf de Mar and Patty Schemel (the latter of whom has stated her desire for the once-high profile foursome to reunite), though there are no current plans to do so.

As ever, the inner workings of the line-up wranglings have been revealed in part on Maddah's twitter page. Of particular interest to fans of Weezer, is that Maddah claimed earlier in the evening that he offered the much-loved pop band "$2M + costs for 5 shows", to no avail. He also wrote that Blink 182 weren't available due to "personal issues". Furthermore, previously announced Californian rock band Thrice dropped out of the festival line-up "just in time" for the announcement.

The newly announced bands above will join:

Dashboard Confessional
Hatebreed
Gojira
Street Dogs
Hollywood Undead
Attack! Attack!
Panic! at the Disco
Relient K
Face to Face
Framing Hanley
Watain
The Used
Cro-Mags
Kvelertak
Yellowcard
Holy Grail
Unearth
Times of Grace
Sum 41
Thursday
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows
Funeral For a Friend
Steel Panther
We Are The Ocean
Young Guns
The Swellers
Madina Lake
Terrible Things
Four Year Strong
Story of the Year
This Providence
Make Do And Mend
Whitechapel
The Acacia Strain
Every Time I Die
Skindred
Hellyeah
In This Moment
The Damned Things
We Are The In Crowd
The Word Alive
Zebrahead
Set Your Goals
Hellogoodbye
The Dangerous Summer
Black Veil Brides
Devin Townsend (ex-Strapping Young Lad)

Soundwave Revolution 2011 dates:

Brisbane – Saturday 24th September
Sydney – Sunday 25th September
Melbourne – Friday 30th September
Adelaide – Saturday 1st October
Perth – Monday 3rd October

TICKETS:

Soundwave Revolution Members pre-sale:

Brisbane - Tuesday 24 May 9am
Sydney - Wednesday 25 May 9am
Melbourne - Thursday 26 May 9am
Adelaide and Perth - Friday 27 May 9am
Via soundwaverevolution.com

General public tickets go on sale Thursday 2 June, 9am AEST through soundwaverevolution.com, Ticketek and other retailers

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