The Harvest festival is close to being cancelled according to promoter AJ Maddah.
Maddah took to Twitter to voice his concern about the festival’s immediate future, saying he is “having a crisis of confidence” after low levels of interest and ticket sales to the November event.
“Since BDO announced a very top heavy Harvest-centric line-up (Blur, Arcade Fire, Lumineers, etc), sales have died,” he tweeted, referring to the Big Day Out’s recent lineup reveal.
“Which is understandable tbh,” he added. “As a small boutique festival with emphasis on arts & experience we can’t compete.”
“We’re heartbroken seeing our favourite child get sickly and are doing everything to make it work.”
A second lineup announcement is expected in the coming days, featuring Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, however poor sales and “lack of interest, particularly in Brisbane,” is threatening to kill the festival.
“As a small boutique festival with emphasis on arts & experience we can’t compete,” tweeted Maddah, also the promoter of the Soundwave and Vans Warped Tour festivals. “We’re heartbroken seeing our favourite child get sickly and are doing everything to make it work.”
“But the truth is that unless we see some kind of sign in the next week we’ll have to consider the worst.”
A number of festivals have suffered bad news in recent weeks- the Fat As Butter festival, although still going ahead, had enter liquidation alongside festival organiser Future Entertainment while Summadayze and Pyramid Rock were last week cancelled.
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