While earlier this year it was looking like one of the world’s greatest dance music brands Global Gathering would be returning to Australia, it has now come to pass that local promoters Future Entertainment won’t be bringing the festival back in 2009. While currently there’s no hard news on when we’ll be seeing the festival again, Future have confirmed it will indeed return to Australia, with rumours suggesting we may be lucky enough to see a refreshed Global Gathering dropping at a different time of the year in 2010.

ITM spoke to Future Entertainment’s Mark James earlier this year on what we could expect from the festival when it returned to Australia. “We’re going to go with more of a ‘massive DJ’ lineup,” he told ITM, indicating we’d see a shift in the festival’s musical programming away from the mixture of live and electronic acts that were toured in 2008.

Could this be a sign of things to come for the brand? Either way, it looks like it’s not the last we’ll see of Global Gathering in Australia.

Stay tuned to ITM for all the news on Global Gathering as it comes to hand.