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03-06: TRASHFEST 15 CANCELLED

First of all, let me apologise that it has taken us a long time to comment. It's been a hectic couple of weeks for the whole Trashfest organisation, and unfortunately we have a negative outcome today.

This year we will not be able to hold Trashfest. There are two main reasons for this. First of all, the local government issued us a permit to hold the festival at De Buze two months ago. Unfortunately, they failed to inform the local residents, which the law requires them to do. A number of the residents used this mistake by the local government to start a lawsuit to get the permit revoked. They won this case on Friday the 28th of May. Over the weekend we have tried to find another venue in the area, but it has proved impossible at such short notice (two weeks).

Secondly, ticket sales have been poor in comparison to the previous two years at De Buze. At this point last year we had sold 600 tickets, this year we have sold 150. The costs of putting on Trashfest (the venue, staff, security, etc) take up about 60% of the ticket money, and up to this moment the ticket sales do not cover half of that. If we had not lost the venue, we could have continued. If more tickets had been sold, we may have been able to take a risk on venues further away, but we do not have the money to risk.

With both of these happening, it has become impossible for us to do anything other than to cancel Trashfest.

If there was any way we could still hold the festival, we would. Trashfest is a highlight of our summers, and we are as disappointed as anyone that we have been forced to cancel it, especially so close to the date.

Tickets that have been paid by Paypal have already been refunded. The tickets that have been bought by Ticketscript will be refunded at the end of this week,

Our apologies for all the hassle. We’ll try to find another place for the bands on the trashfest bill. Find more information soon on trashfest.nl

It’s not certain if there will be a trashfest in 2011.

Martheun on behave of trashfest