Dominion Festival Cancelled Due To Lack Of Ticket Sales

Dominion Competition was set to happen between Might 5 and seven on the Ushaw Historic Home, Chapels and Gardens in Durham, and could be headlined by Blind Guardian, Orange Goblin, and Skindred. The pageant has sadly been canceled resulting from lower than 5% of tickets being offered with lower than a month to go, with organizers issuing a press release apologizing to everybody.

Organizers state they’re accepting losses in extra of £100,000 and that every one ticket holders shall be refunded.

“After intensive conferences and discussions, we’ve got needed to make the heart-breaking determination to cancel Dominion Competition.

“This can be a mission into which we’ve got put huge quantities of private cash and over a yr of our workforce’s time, however the actuality is that with lower than 5% of tickets offered, the losses to run the occasion would exceed 1 / 4 of one million kilos, and we won’t go forward with the pageant with out risking our workers’ job safety, or placing in danger folks’s ticket cash or band’s charges. We did not go into the pageant scene to even think about the concept of placing anybody’s cash in danger besides ours, however we merely cannot afford to run the pageant with such low gross sales.

“The one moral determination that would probably be made now could be to simply accept defeat, intestine wrenching although that is. We tried all the things and dedicated all we had, however pushing this any additional ahead would danger us becoming a member of the pile of promoters who’ve didn’t refund prospects after utilizing ticket cash to fund a failed present, or not paid bands or suppliers for the present – neither of which is one thing that we may entertain, for even a second.

“We’re certain, with hindsight, everybody will know the place we went unsuitable, and we’ll little doubt assume of all of them ourselves in most of the sleepless nights to come back. Even so, we’re pressured into the choice of accepting losses which are already in extra of £100,000 to make sure that no-one loses besides us. If we pushed it any additional, we could not make that very same assure.

“All ticket holders will obtain an electronic mail inside 24 hours confirming that every one ticket holders are being refunded mechanically to their fee technique, and all bands and suppliers have additionally been contacted to make sure no-one is out of pocket.

“Please, when contacting our workforce about any queries, naked in thoughts that our workers did not make this determination and tried completely all the things of their energy to make this occur.

“We’re genuinely sorry, and gutted, that we could not make this occur and to need to convey you this information, however we gave it an actual go as we actually wished this to occur and construct a rock and metallic pageant that this area deserves. We have been totally ready that for the primary few years, the occasion would lose cash, however we could not have predicted gross sales at such a low degree as to make the occasion not possible to stage, financially and logistically, and we thank everybody who has supported us in our endeavours to attempt to make this occur.”