Beachdown festival cancelled
The Beachdown Festival, due to take place on Devil’s Dyke, Sussex, this coming weekend, has been cancelled.
Just days after twittering to say that the event was “NOT cancelled!” and encouraging fans to buy day tickets, the organisers posted a message on the festival’s website last night, saying that slow ticket sales and financial problems have made it impossible to go ahead.
They said: “We wish to say at this time how desperately sorry we are to all those who have bought tickets or were participating in the event and to say that we all here are personally shattered expecially after eleven months of battling against the recession to try and put this event on and coming so close.
Last year’s Beachdown Festival, which drew around 10,000 people.
The statement continued: “We also wish to advise everyone that we explored every possible avenue to finance the event including re-mortgaging our houses to combat the unwillingness of banks to support us.”
One of the chief organisers of the festival, Joe Pidgeon, has said he will have to sell his home to pay the festival’s debts.
Meanwhile ticket-holders, who had been hoping to watch the likes of Grace Jones, The Zutons and The Super Furry Animals across the weekend, have been posting angry messages on web forums. Many are wondering whether any of the £100 tickets will be refunded.
