Borneo Sonic Music Festival (BSMF) 2024: Updates and more as it happens
RAIN, Judika, BCL and Jessi among big names announced for festival
The Borneo Sonic Music Festival (BSMF) 2024 is the largest outdoor music festival in Sarawak, and it will be held in Stadium Sarawak.
- Shuttle bus
- Entry to stadium, illegal items
- Ticket/Wristband collection
- Glamping
- Run
- Road Show
- Final list of Performers
- Early Performers
- Sales of Tickets
- Tickets Prices
- Activities
- Dates
Shuttle bus
Shuttle bus service to the event is prepared by the organizers on both 11 and 12 October 2024.
The shuttle bus service picks festival goers from 2-4PM on both dates from Riverside Majestic Hotel bus stop and Waterfront Hotel, and drop them off at Celebration Square in Petra Jaya which is where the Borneo Sonic Food Festival is being held.
The same bus ferries festival goers back to the city centre from 11PM to 1AM on both dates as well, picking up their riders at Celebration Square and dropping them at Waterfront Hotel and Riverside Majestic.
Each ride is RM10/way and more details regarding the shuttle bus to Borneo Sonic Musci Festival 2024 can be seen below.
Entry to Stadium Sarawak and prohibited items during concert
Aside from confirming wristband collection time and dates, Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 will also allow entry to the stadium based on a certain time frame.
In a post shared by the festival, line queue starts at 2PM on both 11 and 12 October 2024, with gates opening from 5PM onwards.
The festival notes that strict bag checks will be conducted, and festival goers are encouraged to pack light and only bring important items.
In addition to that, the festival also released a wide range of prohibited items which will be confiscated if found.
Interestingly, the items include banners and posters of A3 size, selfie sticks, ciggarattes and vapes, as well as alcohol.
The full list of prohibited items can be seen below.
Wristband collection
Wristband collection to the concert of the Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 has been set from 9 October 2024 until 12 October 2024.
Based on the information shared by the organizers, wristband collection would be from 4PM until 11PM on both 9 and 10 October 2024, with ticket sales as well as wristband collection on the event day itself done from 2PM to midnight.
Details on the writsband collection are shared below with the organizers encouraging print out of etickets when collecting the wristbands.
Glamping at Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 [1 Oct 2024]
Aside from all the concert itself, the Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 would also add glamping to its intenary this year.
In a promotional post on its social media, the organizers announced there would be the Borneo Sonic Glamping from 11 October to 12 October.
Sites are divided into two sections; A and B, with each side having some 15 glamping spots located just beside the Sarawak Stadium.
You can read more about the Borneo Sonic Glamping 2024 HERE.
For those interested, sites for glamping begin from RM200 with those keen to snap up spots needing to pay and book the limited site slots on the official Borneo Sonic Glamping site HERE.
Borneo Sonic Run 2024 details announced [17 September 2024]
Details of the Borneo Sonic Run 2024, the first ever organized for the festival was made known recently.
The run, covering two distances, 3KM and 6KM would be held on 12 October 2024 at Celebration Square, Stadium Sarawak.
Flag off would be at 7AM for the 6KM run, and 6.05AM for the 3KM run. The event is organized by Grit Event Management.
Registration for the event can be made at https://gritevent.com/event/borneosonicrun/
BSMF2024 road show and Namewee added to artist list [17 September 2024]
Borneo Sonic Music Festival today announced that they will be holding a road show from 27 to 29 September at Plaza Merdeka Kuching.
During the road show, the festival organizers promise tons of fun activities and prizes, while reserving a special meet and greet session for the last day, 29 September 2024.
The meet and greet session will feature DOLLA, who are one of the 19 performers at the coming festival.
The festival made the event known via its social media, and said that it will also launch its first ever CSR campaign together with Sarawak Forestry Corporation and Piasau Natire Reserve to preserve Sarawak’s forests during the roadshow.
Prior to this, the organizers had also confirmed the attendance of Namewee, a Malaysian hip hop recording artist, composer, filmmaker and actor, to the festival.
Namewee, whose real name is Wee Meng Chee, is widely known for his ‘thought provoking’ videos and music.
Final performer line-up of BSMF 2024 finally announced [29 September 2024]
Organizers of the Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 has finally confirmed and made known their full line up of the up-coming festival.
Among the huge names now added in the performer list for BSMF2024 are Korean Youngjae of Got7, Malaysian Yuna, Thailand’s 4EVE, USA’s Natalie La Rose and Korean singer and actor Yoon Seobin.
The full list of performers at the up-coming Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 can be seen below.
- RAIN (Korea)
- Youngjae of Got7 (Korea)
- Judika (Indonesia)
- Bunga Cinta Lestari (Indonesia)
- DJ Ujoo (Korea)
- Yuna (Malaysia)
- Junny (Canada)
- 4EVE (Thailand)
- Priscilla Abby (Malaysia)
- Yoo Seobin (Korea)
- DOLLA (Malaysia)
- DJ Blink (Malaysia)
- Jess Lee (Malaysia)
- Jessi (USA/Korea)
- Natalie La Rose (USA)
- Slumberjack (Australia)
- Zed-X (Malaysia)
Aside from sharing the final list of performers, the organizers also updated the performance schedule for the BSMF2024.
Based on the updated poster, RAIN and Youngjae would headline Day One of the festival, while Jessi and Yuna would headline Day 2 of BSMF2024. It’s interesting to see one day would be headlined by both male artist, while another would be headlined by both female artist.
Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 performer list revealed [31 July 2024]
The biggest open air concert in Sarawak, Borneo Sonic Music Fetival 2024 confirmed th first few list of performers which will be hitting their stage this October 11 to 12.
Jung Ji-hoon, or better known as RAIN leads the exciting names of performers with international acts such as Indonesian Judika and Bunga Cinta Lestari, South Korean singer Junny, and Korean DJ Ujoo.
Also announced are Malaysian artists namely DOLLA, DJ Blink, Jess Lee Jia Wei, Priscilla Abby, DJ Slumberjack, Thomas and Zed.X
Aside from the names of the performers, Borneo Sonic also announced the days each artist would be performing with Rain headlining Day One and Jessi headlining Day Two.
It is important to note that the performer list above is not complete yet with Borneo Sonic looking at revealing more artist as the dates of the concert come closer.
Performer list for BSMF 2024 to be revealed, followed by Sales of Early Bird Ticket sales [25 July 2024]
After announcing tickets for the ‘Super Early Birds’ tickets were sold out, the organizers of Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 today made it known that Early Bird Tickets would be sold next.
This comes as the organizers dropped a few hints of artist which would grace the concert this coming October 11 to 12 at Sarawak Stadium.
Based on the hints, among the artist believed to perform this year is Malaysian award winning star Yuna, Indonesian Judika and South Korean GOT7’s Youngjae, Bam Bam and Mark.
The full line-up is to be released on 31 July 2024 through a much anticipated press conference.
In addition, according to the information shared by the festival, the Early Bird Tickets sales would then happen this August 1st, 2024 at 12-noon.
However, unlike the Super Early Tickets, the number of tickets available during this sales isn’t made known with the organizers only saying that the tickets are ‘limited in number’.
There is also no mention of any freebies for those buying the Early Birds tickets as well.
As previously announced, ticket prices would start from RM298, hitting a maximum of RM888 per pax. You can see the concert layout HERE.
To buy the tickets, you can visit this link.
Borneo Sonic Music Festival (BSMF) 2024 tickets [4 July 2024]
Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 organizers today announced the ticket prices for Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024, as well as the up-coming sale of the Super Early Bird Tickets.
The Super Early Bird tickets, limited to just 500 in number for each zone, would start from RM198, reaching up to RM7,500 for a VIP Table of five.
There are four zones for Borneo Sonic Music Festival namely VIP, rock zone, party zone and general admission.
According to a statement on their official social media site, the tickets would be sold this coming Sunday, 7th of July 2024 at 12PM.
Those who purchase the Super Early Bird tickets will get a limited edition BSMF’24 tee which BSMF said is only available during this stage.
Interestingly, BSMF has not announced any firm artist line-up for the festival despite opening sales for the Super Early Bird tickets.
However, those who buy the tickets at this stage will save a lot because early bird tickets for the Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 would start at RM298, while normal tickets would start at RM388.00
Those buying tickets for the Rock Zone and Party Zone also stand to save up to RM400 if they buy their tickets during this Super Early Bird sales.
The full ticket prices can be seen below.
To buy the tickets, you can visit this link.
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Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 adds glamping and run to festival [27 June 2024]
The biggest music concert in Malaysian Borneo – Borneo Sonic Music Festival (BSMF) had reaffirmed the concert dates and venue for the 2024 edition.
As mentioned on earlier this year, the concert will be on October 11 to 12 at Sarawak Stadium.
According to an article by New Sarawak Tribune, the organizers are expecting more than 36,000 concert goers this year with a more diverse range of performers. Last year, an estimated 31,000 came to the first ever Borneo Sonic Music Festival.
This year, the concert is expected to feature K-Pop, RnB, Hip Hop, and EDM, with the BSMF 2024 now including the Borneo Sonic Food Carnival at Dataran Stadium (Stadium Square) from October 9 until Oct 12, 2024.
The new addition anticipates 50 food and drink vendors and 20 stalls offering non-food items at the square with attendees able to enjoy music performances, games, giveaways, and more.
In addition to that, the festival will also introduce glamping sites for the first time with the BSMF 2024 Camping Ground allocated at Football Field D (Padang D) which is just 200 metres from the venue.
The event would also organize its very own run, called Borneo Sonic Music Run on Saturday, October 12, 2024.
This run which would be at Sarawak Stadium, would cover a route of 3KM, and targets 1,000 participants.
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Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024 dates announced (18 Feb 2024)
The much awaited Borneo Sonic Music Festival for 2024 has announced its festival and concert dates.
According to a reels posted by the organizers, the concert dates would be on 11 and 12 October 2024, which is a Friday and Saturday. The dates are a week later to last year’s festival which was also held on the first week of the October.
The line-up of the coming concert has not been revealed, but if the 2023 festival was to be any benchmark, it would likely include major names from around the globe.
The venue of the concert is likely to remain unchanged with the festival likely to retain Stadium Sarawak as its venue considering it is the largest open venue in Sarawak at the moment, able to hold over 30,000 concert goers at one time.
The previous concert accomodated 31,000 fans in two days.
With the concert announced so much earlier this time around, one can expect better preparations, as well as facilities for Borneo Sonic Music Festival 2024.
This is especially since the possible venue, which is Stadium Sarawak itself, is currently undergoing maintenance and improvements in anticipation for the coming Sukan Malaysia (SUKMA) which will be held in July 2024.
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