August 13, 2024 • 3 mins
The organisers of the iconic Bluesfest Byron Bay have announced that the 2025 edition will be its final year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation to read the news this
morning that the Byron Bay Blues Festival is not going
to be returning next year. It is over. And this
is just the latest and a big line of festivals
that have been canceled. Really, this is probably the biggest
one to call it quits. But we've had big day Out,
sound Wave, Stereosonic, all kind of carct it over the
(00:22):
last decade and interesting last year at this festival. Jimmy Barnes,
Jack Johnson, Tom Jones, Ben Harper, Elvis Costello draws big
names and they still can't sustain it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
They're expensive, and also I think they've become too mainstream.
All those festivals they used to be great. You used
to be able to go along there and you know,
you get out of your gorde and watch the grateful
dare does someone play? Those days are gone. It's come
to corporatize. Now you're gonna have your little thing on
and you can't drink this. You drink watery, mid strength beer.
(00:54):
It's on Neil Diamond and they're feeding me that horrible
great northern junk. Don't give me a real beer.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, But in terms of music festivals, we're talking sort
of the true nature of a music festival where you
go for a couple of days and you camp and
you see a whole lot of bands over that period
of time.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Have you ever done that?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
No, it's not my thing, but it's interesting that doesn't
seem to be many people's thing anymore. The nature of
it has changed. A national survey has found that people
aged eighteen to thirty five found that ninety percent of
people were deterred from going to festivals because of security issues.
Interesting cost.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Obviously, you mean security issues as they were worried about
their security or security was too or.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Too strong to diagnos. But as they're saying here too,
it's not just the cost of a ticket to the festival.
It's the price of getting their cost of accommodation. And
you add that up against going to see a big
act in town like Taylor Swift. They say people would
rather fork out on one ticket for a big one
night concert that you're going to have fomo over that
everyone you know is going to be talking about. You
(01:56):
get ready in your own home, you go to the show,
and you go home again. That's where people are preferring
to spend their money and I wonder too if you
know that just we did this as a pub test
last year when another one got canceled, and Normal said
that her daughter used to love going to festivals. The
COVID years kind of changed it. That demographic now don't
want to go and live in a tent for three days.
(02:18):
They'd like to spend their money on nice things like
make up, they want to have a shower. They don't
want to do what festival goers used to love, which
was that Woodstock kind of roll around in the mud.
But the ones overseas that Glastonbury is still going strong.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's got the population and get iron made.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's the thing, Queen, You're going to get all the
biggest bands in the world. Because these concerts are getting
are starting to get cancelations. It's really hard now to
book in acts that can that can do it. Lack
of ticket sales at a festival has a knock on effect,
as they say, promoters can't pay the artists, all the vendors,
so you're left without those basic tenets of a festival.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I like the idea of a musical festival, but I
don't want to go to one, but I like the
idea of it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It goes back for me to Portaloos and stuff like
the toilets, the toilet.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You when you're at not Fest last year you complained
endlessly about the toilet.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I think, can I get a cup of cheap I
thought the toilets were could the chair with some back
support
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And also slipnot was in and that not I know,
I was devo
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation to read the news this
morning that the Byron Bay Blues Festival is not going
to be returning next year. It is over. And this
is just the latest and a big line of festivals
that have been canceled. Really, this is probably the biggest
one to call it quits. But we've had big day Out,
sound Wave, Stereosonic, all kind of carct it over the
(00:22):
last decade and interesting last year at this festival. Jimmy Barnes,
Jack Johnson, Tom Jones, Ben Harper, Elvis Costello draws big
names and they still can't sustain it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
They're expensive, and also I think they've become too mainstream.
All those festivals they used to be great. You used
to be able to go along there and you know,
you get out of your gorde and watch the grateful
dare does someone play? Those days are gone. It's come
to corporatize. Now you're gonna have your little thing on
and you can't drink this. You drink watery, mid strength beer.
(00:54):
It's on Neil Diamond and they're feeding me that horrible
great northern junk. Don't give me a real beer.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, But in terms of music festivals, we're talking sort
of the true nature of a music festival where you
go for a couple of days and you camp and
you see a whole lot of bands over that period
of time.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Have you ever done that?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
No, it's not my thing, but it's interesting that doesn't
seem to be many people's thing anymore. The nature of
it has changed. A national survey has found that people
aged eighteen to thirty five found that ninety percent of
people were deterred from going to festivals because of security issues.
Interesting cost.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Obviously, you mean security issues as they were worried about
their security or security was too or.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Too strong to diagnos. But as they're saying here too,
it's not just the cost of a ticket to the festival.
It's the price of getting their cost of accommodation. And
you add that up against going to see a big
act in town like Taylor Swift. They say people would
rather fork out on one ticket for a big one
night concert that you're going to have fomo over that
everyone you know is going to be talking about. You
(01:56):
get ready in your own home, you go to the show,
and you go home again. That's where people are preferring
to spend their money and I wonder too if you
know that just we did this as a pub test
last year when another one got canceled, and Normal said
that her daughter used to love going to festivals. The
COVID years kind of changed it. That demographic now don't
want to go and live in a tent for three days.
(02:18):
They'd like to spend their money on nice things like
make up, they want to have a shower. They don't
want to do what festival goers used to love, which
was that Woodstock kind of roll around in the mud.
But the ones overseas that Glastonbury is still going strong.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's got the population and get iron made.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's the thing, Queen, You're going to get all the
biggest bands in the world. Because these concerts are getting
are starting to get cancelations. It's really hard now to
book in acts that can that can do it. Lack
of ticket sales at a festival has a knock on effect,
as they say, promoters can't pay the artists, all the vendors,
so you're left without those basic tenets of a festival.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I like the idea of a musical festival, but I
don't want to go to one, but I like the
idea of it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It goes back for me to Portaloos and stuff like
the toilets, the toilet.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You when you're at not Fest last year you complained
endlessly about the toilet.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I think, can I get a cup of cheap I
thought the toilets were could the chair with some back
support
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And also slipnot was in and that not I know,
I was devo
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