Despite a successful inaugural year for Detroiters in 2013, Laneway Festival has announced its postponement of Laneway Detroit 2014 “due to timing.”
Originally hosted in Melbourne, Australia, in 2004, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival chose Detroit as its first American outpost after co-founder Danny Rogers spent time in the city. Nearly 7,500 attendees descended upon five stages at Meadow Brook Music Festival last September to hear co-headliners Sigur Rós and The National perform, as well as artists such as ADULT., CHVRCHES, Shigeto, Solange, Savages, AlunaGeorge, and Flume.
The official statement from the organizers cites scheduling issues as the greatest barrier to staging the festival in 2014. Laneway hopes to return to Detroit again in 2015.