Poor ticket sales have led to the cancellation of a planned two-day electronic music festival at the Hunter Valley's Calais Estate.
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The event was to be headlined by two legendary underground UK dance acts, Leftfield and Brand New Heavies, with tickets starting at $99 plus booking fee for one-day entry.
Luxury glamping packages were available, including a private VIP six-person gazebo for $1950.
"It’s with a heavy heart that we must announce the cancellation of the Secret Valley concert events scheduled to take place at the Yarra and Hunter Valleys on 20 and 21 February," a statement on promoter Live Industry's Facebook page said.
"Despite our very best efforts, a lack of demand from concert goers for these events has left us with no choice but to rethink our approach to these events.
"Refunds will be provided to ticket purchasers at the point of sale.
"In the days preceding this announcement our team worked over time to try to devise a solution to this situation in order to allow these events to proceed, unfortunately this lead to a slower than normal response time to some ticket purchasers enquires.
"We genuinely regret the time to respond to some ticket holders enquiries.
"Despite the failure of these events to meet the demands and expectations of the music going public, we hope to return with an alternative, yet similar event later in 2016."
Leftfield fans can now catch the influential electronic project led by Neil Barnes at Sydney's Metro Theatre on February 22, with promoters Frontier taking over the planned Australian dates.
"Due to circumstances entirely beyond our control, the two scheduled shows at the Secret Valley events (The Calais Estate on 20th Feb and the Yarra Valley Estate on 21st Feb) are not taking place," a statement on Leftfield's website said.
"Leftfield understand that many fans would be disappointed to miss this long awaited opportunity to see them on stage."
Barnes added: "We had various options on what do when we found out about the cancellation of the two events, but as far as I was concerned we just had to come to Australia.
"I didn't want to let down any Leftfield fans.
"Now that we are going to be in the cities, we just want to pack these rooms out and come together with our fans whom we haven't seen for five years."
The Secret Valley festival was to take place at Calais Estate on February 20 and 21.
