Music festivals try to weather hard times

After cancellations and slow ticket sales, organisers hope to bounce back in 2013Festival organisers are blaming a combination of bad weather, the Olympics, the economy and the absence of Glastonbury this year for a summer of poor ticket sales and cancelled events.Festival Republic, the company behind this weekend's Reading and Leeds festivals, was forced earlier this year to cancel the Big Chill in Herefordshire for the first time in its 18-year history. Melvin Benn, managing director of Festiv...

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23:09 on August 25 2012

Music festivals try to weather hard times

Guardian Music — After cancellations and slow ticket sales, organisers hope to bounce back in 2013Festival organisers are blaming a combination of bad weather, the Olympics, the economy a... more info