Shambolic Metal Festivals

[Pagan Saviour]

There was a bit of chat on this topic in the Primordial thread with the announcement of their withdrawal from Hammerfest which seems to be falling rightly apart now.


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What is it about metal and festivals that come apart in spectacular fashion, it definitely seems like there's more of this type of caper when it comes to this type of music. As mentioned in the other thread we've had many like it on this Island too.

[ldj]

I reckon maybe underground bands in the genre are accessible enough (ironically) that any lad who has delusions about being the next big promoter thinks they can put on a festival with international acts just because their booking agents can be contacted fairly easily, when they don't have the experience or resources to do so.

[Giggles]

Extreme music for extreme consequences 

[Pagan Saviour]

Alan Averil has done a podcast on the Hammerfest Cancellation ..........

[Despondent_Soul2]

Sacrifice Fest (was it even called that in the end??!) in Derry mid 00's - absolute shambles

[Pagan Saviour]

Was that the thing Amon Amarth Headlined?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yeah. At least it went ahead though. Wonder if yer man (Hugh?) is still paying off his losses today! 

[Despondent_Soul2]

Was it same folks behind that 'Darker Days' gig in Letterkenny? I remember seeing 'Darker Days presents Sacrifice Fest' on posters and figured it was!?

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

I reckon maybe underground bands in the genre are accessible enough (ironically) that any lad who has delusions about being the next big promoter thinks they can put on a festival with international acts just because their booking agents can be contacted fairly easily, when they don't have the experience or resources to do so.

I'd say this is it exactly. Beyond that I don't think it's actually all that much more common in the metal world.

It's ultimately a smaller pool with less resources than other music, generally speaking.

[Pagan Saviour]

Someone put up a clip of yesterdays action on Facebook it was around 5pm yesterday looked grim. The place holds a few thousand it would seem and in the video there was a hundred people if even.

[Bürggermeister]

Did that Clang thing ever go ahead which, if I recall correctly, had its roots in a failed festival which was supposed to take place in Collon, then got moved to the Academy a few days beforehand and got cancelled at the last minute?

[Pagan Saviour]

No it never happened - as I said in another thread they had every opportunity to cancel retaining some integrity or awareness over the course of the pandemic but they continued to re-jig the lineup and the date. At the end they informed the Irish acts that they were being cut only to replace them with different ones.

At some point last year it was finally cancelled very quietly.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Someone put up a clip of yesterdays action on Facebook it was around 5pm yesterday looked grim. The place holds a few thousand it would seem and in the video there was a hundred people if even.

Acid Reign's combined social media output over the weekend seemed a delicate mix of not wanting to further insult the organizers yet also not play their fanbase for fools by pretending it was anything other than a disaster they were performing at     

[Pagan Saviour]

Yeah, they handled it somewhat delicately but I did see Howard getting thick with people asking if they were still playing. I think it's different for a band like Acid Reign though as they are already doing a UK tour and only had to drive down the road to make that date.

[Pagan Saviour]

https://www.facebook.com/DominionFestival