Red-faced: Surrey's Redfest joins festival dead

not buy tickets because of the 'credit crunch'?

its probably down to the fact that all but one of these bands can be seen elsewhere or on other established festival bills.

The reason for poor sales in most cases is that the line-up is shite.

crap line-up
market saturation
yup.

especially when things like *spit* field day and this ben and jerrys thing are so cheap and one dayers. a festival lineup has to be really good to make me consider the hassle of travel and camping etc.

when two thousand trees is 36 quid, and better!

I reckon it is a key factor for Glastonbury and others that attract an older crowd who are getting their weekend funded by daddy.

People are spending less on luxury items and weekends away watching shit indie and drinking to excess is one of those luxuries.

However it would be a shit excuse for Reading to not sell out as that is aimed at kids who dont have mortgages and are paying for their weekend through pocket money and paper rounds.

But then Reading AND Leeds sold out immediately....

Redfest failed because it has a weak line up that you can see anywhere else for less.

Though I do work there.

And get the train.

This was almost destined to fail from the beginning. Not only is the line-up week but also over that weekend is the Neil young thing, Zoo8, and Iron maiden playing Twickenham. There's only a limited number of people that'll go to music festivals/gigs in the south-east.

Which is almost approaching something like value. Makes you wonder if 50% of their ticket price was profit margin.

*arent

I won't pay £45 but I will pay half that!

credit crunch is a very valid excuse.... in 2008, the entire leisure industry... restaurants, theatres, bars, promoters... have noticed a 44% decrease in sales across the board... its the opposite of panic buying of petrol in a fuel price hike... people either have less money and arent being allowed new credit cards (and when you think most tickets are bought online, that definetely affects things), or are holding onto money, as they think they may have none soon.... this coupled with an oversaturation for sure..... may for example, far too many bands toured... shows i promoted for the likes of black mountain, sunset rubdown, xiu xiu, silver jews were all only half full... last year these would have had twice as many people

to 2402 from an O2 phone.

You don't need to show the phone to gain entry either...

It's a seriously odd place. I've never seem so many demented, out of it or just plain weird people in all my life. It sort of cemented my reasons for the leaving the country which two days later I did.