UK festivals: has the bubble burst?

Truck has gone into liquidation and 30 other events were cancelled this summer as festival goers feel the pinch. And organisers say they won't be the lastIt's 8pm on the Sunday night at this year's Standon Calling, an enjoyable 5,000-capacity festival that has made its home in the Hertfordshire countryside for the past seven years. The mid-August sun has shone throughout the day, but it's drifting towards the horizon as London indie folksters Goldheart Assembly arrive to play the penultimate set...

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