Alt-Fest's organisers issued a lengthy statement on Friday evening, confirming that the event has been cancelled two weeks before it was due to take place.
As previously reported, following signs that all was not well in the Alt-Fest camp when organisers admitted that they were dealing with "some extremely challenging and stressful issues", it was two of the artists on the line-up, Marilyn Manson and Gary Numan, who actually broke the news of the cancellation.
The event, which had been due to take place at the Boughton Estate in Kettering on 15-17 Aug, was in part funded by £60,000 raised on Kickstarter. However, despite that being twice what organisers had set as their original funding target, it was still a long way from the £1,703,000 total cost of putting on the festival, which was revealed in last week's statement.
Posted on: 07/08/2014Categories: News from CMU Online
