The festival promised a full day of ‘Old Skool, ’90s & ’00s Dance and Rave Classics’ and massive DJs, but two events were suddenly cancelled, only 100 people turned up and they ran out of booze
A festival has been branded the UK’s version of ‘Fyre Festival’ after only 100 people turned up, the booze ran out and even the rides were shut down.
Save The Rave, based in Liverpool and directed by Olivia Livingstone and Natalie Moran, had a three-day event booked at Royal Cornwall Showground in Wadebridge, in Cornwall, over the weekend.
The festival promised a full day of “Old Skool, ’90s & ’00s Dance and Rave Classics” and “massive DJs, outdoor arenas, fairground vibes and pure nostalgia from start to finish” on the Saturday. But two of the advertised events were suddenly cancelled.
Save The Rave was dubbed the ‘UK’s Fyre Festival’ (Image: Dyard Events)
Punters who had forked out at least £30 on tickets said it turned out to be “tacky, disorganised and not as promised”. One dubbed it “the Fyre Festival of Cornwall”, a reference to the notoriously disastrous luxury 2017 Bahamas music event that collapsed into chaos.
One DJ said: “I feel foolish for promoting something which turned out the way it did. After seeing how the event turned out it’s not something I would’ve encouraged people to spend money on.”
A ticket holder wrote: “The whole event seemed like a massive scam, there were red flags right from the start. I felt so sorry for the vendors there who were promised a 3 day event with 5k people per day but then had 2 of the days cancelled and only about 1k people there on the Saturday.”
Ticketholders, traders, DJs and artists have come out to blast a music festival in Cornwall (Image: Dyard Events)
There were reports of booze running out early, with vendors shockingly running out of cider – in Cornwall of all places – by 5pm.
The chaotic festival burnt a massive hole through many vendors’ pockets, with David and Rowland And Sons Funfair being among them. They estimated their business is out £7,000, and this hasn’t been compensated for by the organisers.
One person said of the festival’s stages: “The gazebo looked like the cheapest thing you could buy from Aldi’s middle aisle that collapsed under the slightest wind and then had to be held up by other DJs the whole day whilst they were playing.”
Some people said the festival was a ‘massive scam’ (Image: Dyard Events)
Organisers have blamed the problems on Saturday on an “attack”. Save the Rave posted a statement on September 13 saying they had to “deal with an attempted attack on site, involving violence, threats and behaviour that created a serious and unsettling situation.”
A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said it received several calls with officers attending the site at least twice. They reported heightened tensions, drug taking and dangerous driving, but on attendance officers found no evidence of any criminality taking place.
Save the Rave did not respond to the Daily Star’s request for comment.
By staronline@reachplc.com (Connie Perkins)
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