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Author Topic: Cambridge Festival 2025 cancelled  (Read 504 times)
Andy
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« on: January 17, 2025, 12:33:56 PM »

A good run, 1965-2024, but rumoured as unlikely to return. Hopefully it will, but...

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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2025, 01:24:24 PM »

The info the festival put out says they will return in 2026.
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2025, 02:14:17 PM »

It was a long time ago, but I wonder whether the loss by the local Council of £644,951 to a scam ticket sales company still has repercussions?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7819022.stm

http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/?s=secureticket

https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/litigation-and-enforcement/311-litigation-features/12552-directors-of-ticket-company-that-owed-council-p600k-disqualified-for-10-years?tmpl=component

I've fond memories of the festival: I attended every year in the 80's. A friend had a house backing onto the grounds. Very civilised. Hop over the fence for the eternal veggie chilli in the slow cooker, clean loos and comfy sleeping mats. Bucks fizz corks being fired over the fence on the Sunday morning.
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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2025, 03:10:36 PM »

Claim to have lost money in 24 - hard to see how they managed that with £250 ticket prices, very little in the way of expensive headliners (Robert Plant excepted) and a very well attended 4 days - even if not fully sold out.
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2025, 04:12:34 PM »

I’m so very sad.
It was the first festival that I attended.
No words.
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2025, 07:11:48 PM »


Claim to have lost money in 24 - hard to see how they managed that with £250 ticket prices, very little in the way of expensive headliners (Robert Plant excepted) and a very well attended 4 days - even if not fully sold out.


It seems to be far more commercial than it was until the last year or so, but until recently, like with PoB, Plant was effectively subsidising Saving Grace dates by taking virtually nothing out of them, letting the rest of the band earn whatever they earned.
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