Rumours begun circulating earlier this year when Tone Deaf reported that Smokescreen Music Festival had become listed as a creative trademark of Mushroom Marketing PTY LTD on the Intellectual Property In Australia’s website.
Last week, supposedly to time with a poster run distributed around Melbourne and banners on a handful of websites (including this one), the domain smokescreenmusicfestival.com.au which previously displayed a “coming soon” image, was updated with a logo and teaser video which can be seen above.
Furthermore, a Ticketmaster page for the proposed festival was recently created.
According to the website, the festival’s alleged promoter, one “Michael Mike Michaels” (?), states –
“All of the killer acts you’ve been dying to see that will take your breath away.
The anti-smoking references are glaringly obvious. Assuming this all goes ahead it wouldn’t be the first time an Australian music festival had been organised with a health type message attached to it. The Breath Of Life Festival went down a few weekends ago in Launceston, Tassie, with strong ties to The Lung Foundation Australia.
