It’s astonishing isn’t it

A few sentences on what went wrong. Even less on refunds; nothing about how to get them and how many would be honoured. Three fucking paragraphs on how Liverpool council stole there food and drink before giving it to the homeless.

Seems like an insufferable cunt. Especially don’t like the way he writes…uses flowery phrases like “multitudinous failures” and “plethora of issues” to sound professional but then goes on to say fuck all of substance.

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This phrase is never actually followed by any attempt to actually take any responsibility is it?

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Incredible. Apparently the guy who ran it is a notorious shit

I’ve got a funny feeling here that given the platform they say they used, they’ve withdrawn most of the money already and there won’t be much left for refunds - hence why they’re just referring people elsewhere.

Wild assumption based on other promoters behaviour of course. Not saying it’s definitely the case.

I’m willing to go along with that theory…I wouldn’t expect anything if I was there, especially given what @andyvine has said.

Lee O’Hanarhanlon

I’m now saying it’s definitely the case.

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Barry?

omg that Twitter page is an amazing read

It’s like when somebody on Judge Rinder and is clearly bang to rights as the bad guy, and they just stand there being arsey

What I don’t understand is how that festival could fill out a 12,000 capacity. With the line up I suspected it.was.a small 4000er.

It continued last night… the Twitter account started signing off tweets as “Lee”, saying earlier, unprofessional tweets were the work of a junior colleague. Proceeds to get gradually more flippant and argumentative…until it’s obvious that Lee was always in charge. Just baffling…proper car crash stuff.

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I see today he’s authorised refunds from his own ticket agency TinyCow (IOM), who

a) Don’t actually exist and appear to be trading illegally; they were struck off in February this year.
b) Wasn’t one the ticket platforms he was driving people to in the first place, so hardly anyone (if anyone at all) will have bought there. (Incidentally, why use other agencies if you own your own one already if not to try and pretend you’re not liable for anything?)
c) Are still selling tickets for the festival. Today. Even though the event dates have passed.

who’d have thought a festival that would’ve looked outdated in 2007 has an archaic approach to organisation

incredible

And now he’s deleted all his social media accounts.

The ticket platforms are refunding people out of their own pockets instead - pretty good of them that; perhaps also a warning to them that they might want to start behaving more like traditional agencies and withholding at least a portion of funds until events goes ahead successfully.

I was starting to feel the tiniest bit of sympathy for him…it was clearly a shitstorm and I thought maybe he was trying to work out the best solution.

Clearly not the case. All the bluster will have been to hide the fact he knew he couldn’t process refunds. Not surprising really…you can’t cancel a festival half way through and end up with enough funds to pay artists/organisers and then give full refunds.

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State Of Line-ups continues into 2018

I missed out on this first time around, is any of that archived anywhere?

Having been to Warrington before I can guarantee this will do really well, unfortunately. Northern lad bands sell tickets.