'Music' festivals: a total ripoff, for clueless cunts.

Hey Gregory - I agree there was a degree of disorganisation, but it made it a nicer experience in some ways.

Yes, it undersold, max capacity was 7000, they sold around 5000, some of those at 2-4-1 prices.

Yes, the weather affected the Sunday with many people leaving and some of the bands being cancelled because the organisers didn't want to electrocute any band members.

Will it happen next year? I suspect it will - this was a test event with a huge amount of financial backing, it wasn't expected to make a profit, it was to test the site for suitability. As long as the council and villagers are happy with the way things ran this year its likely they'll agree to it again in 2013. The organisers have several other main stream festivals and can afford a loss on this one.

What were you doing on Sunday? And why did you think it was poorly organised?

Just interested...

Feedback on social media suggests that the vast majority of punters at No6 thought it was pretty awesome.

I'd go again next year for sure.

Cheers

I assume you work for them in some capacity? I am aware that the company behind No.6 is also behind the Warehouse Project in Manchester amongst other things, and that it probably wasn't expected to make money- but considering the strength of the line-up and the relatively small size it really should have sold out. Why didn't it? Because Portmeirion is just too far/remote to get to, and the actual site made very little feature of the village- it could have been a generic field anywhere in the UK. Outside of the site there is nowhere nearby to go for shops/food/somewhere warm. Alot of the bands (and myself) were also at Bestival the previous weekend, which although is in an even more remote location it is considerably better served by public transport.

Even if the festival was sold out, they would have lost money- production costs/artist fees etc. etc. far outweigh the maximum income they could have made which makes me think that it was probably little more than a tax write-off. Cancelling bands for their own safety shouldn't have happened, the festival should have been better prepared for poor weather- after all its in September and in Wales. And finally, I am a tour manager for one of the bands that played the main stage on Sunday.