Name: Music festivals: a high-risk business | FT Film
Uploaded: 2021-09-19T01:44:40.000Z
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As an independent festival it's a risky, risky game.

This is the first year we've properly sold out

because there was such a demand for being in a field

You can share a real connection with an audience

This film is about the risky business of music festivals,

about the people who run them and the people who

rely on them, about how they survive in normal times

Festivals are a multi-million pound global industry.

In the UK, nearly 1,000 festivals contributed £1.76bn

to the economy, supporting around 85,000 jobs.

But in 2020, Covid brought it all to a halt. Glastonbury

In 2021 organisers started out more hopeful.

Alex Trenchard is the founder of Standon Calling,

It's one of the first to attempt going ahead since the pandemic.

Because of Covid our suppliers are wanting more payment

But obviously, because of Covid and uncertainty our ticket

agents are more nervous about extending funds.

And so I've be making a lot of calls to suppliers.

Everyone's kind of having to take each other a bit on trust.

Even without a pandemic to contend with festivals

Alex, the son of Viscount Trenchard, was lucky.

He was able to start up on land part owned by his family.

And a gust of wind came and just blew the stage over

into the fields with the headline act on it.

That was the first time we tried to do live music.

We didn't really know what we were doing.

Some of the major events, like Latitude and British Summer

Time, are owned by global live events companies

But other festivals, like Standon Calling,

No other company has a controlling stake in them.

to bring world music to a western audience.

Someone had the mad idea, well let's create a festival.

I think WOMAD's gone bankrupt three times in its history...

Everybody was making it up as they went along.

But lessons were learned, and triumphs were had.

There are many newer entrants to the market,

like Strawberries and Cream, which started out

Didn't know anything from the insurance side

to the toilets to what it takes to build a festival site.

And with that ticket money, we kind of guessed at how much we

could make on... we could spend on a line-up and spend

In the very first one, whilst the show was going on, some

of the contractors realised they weren't going to get paid.

So they started taking their stages down.

And some of the artists then had to perform on the ground.

He had used the company credit card from his employer Tesco

to pay off hundreds of thousands of pounds of debt.

because the festival lost more and more money.

It allowed me to go to prison for 11 months

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