BAM! Festival cancelled

26 August 2010 by Soulshine News

After a tumultuous few weeks and months with numerous scathing editorials and controversies, BAM! organisers have today announced the cancellation of the inaugural festival, citing insufficient ticket sales.

Organisers of the southeast Queensland festival, due to take place west of Brisbane in October, released the following statement today:

"It is with great sadness and disappointment that we here at BAM! HQ wish to announce that have not sold enough tickets to run this event. As a result, BAM! Festival has been cancelled.

After the release of our 2 for 1 offer, the slight improvement in ticket sales was last night decided to be insufficient to warrant the financial risk involved in proceeding with the festival.

While profit was not our goal, and our entire team were volunteers, our responsibility in being able to provide payment to our suppliers was paramount to our success.

While everything else for a great festival is prepared, without ticket sales we are unable to go ahead.

We would like to thank every single person who has spent time and effort supporting and creating BAM! Festival. Your efforts did not go un‐noticed, and we are truly grateful for your assistance.

To all those who bought tickets to BAM! and were looking forward to the new and different type of festival we were trying to create– thank‐you for your sign of commitment to the festival, and we are sorry that there weren’t more people like you. We hope that you will continue to be supportive of the local music industry in the future.

Full Refunds can be obtained from your point of purchase."

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