KinkyKeith Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) Those who bought their tickets using the instalment plan have to pay their final instalment on 1st May - Latitude wont be cancelled before then - they'll want all the ticket sales money in first - THEN they can cancel and offer to roll over the tickets to next year, without having to do too many refunds (and get to keep the money in their bank). However, they don't have to make a decision until June, because the build time will be much shorter (no waiting for equipment or crews to come from other festivals) - they can have it built in less than 2 weeks now, particularly as the crews and suppliers will be falling over themselves to earn something this season. A good indicator will be whether they cancel Wireless festival (1st week in July). which they haven't done yet, and which is also a Festival Republic show, just like Latitude Edited April 17, 2020 by KinkyKeith additional comment 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
March Hare Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 Yeah, I agree. They want the cash in the bank in the hope people will just roll over tickets. Was going to be my first Latitude but right now I’d rather it didn’t go ahead. I don’t fancy being in a crowd even three months down the road. We’re in a global pandemic and thousands of people are dying. I really don’t fancy risking mixing in crowds mid summer when right now I won’t even stand within 2m of someone I don’t live with! The prospect of it going ahead is crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapple12345 Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 My best bet is after this next lockdown we'll be in a better position than now to know the next steps and they may decide to lower certain measures but they're not going to let 40,000 people congregate and as you've said there will be some who may not be comfortable with it - I know an announcement is imminent probably but I'll still be devastated as the festival is always the highlight of my year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkyKeith Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 9 hours ago, March Hare said: Yeah, I agree. They want the cash in the bank in the hope people will just roll over tickets. Was going to be my first Latitude but right now I’d rather it didn’t go ahead. I don’t fancy being in a crowd even three months down the road. We’re in a global pandemic and thousands of people are dying. I really don’t fancy risking mixing in crowds mid summer when right now I won’t even stand within 2m of someone I don’t live with! The prospect of it going ahead is crazy. Hey, whenever your First Latitude comes around, youre going to enjoy it!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapple12345 Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 On 4/18/2020 at 7:07 PM, KinkyKeith said: Hey, whenever your First Latitude comes around, youre going to enjoy it!!! Entirely agree, it’s arguably one of the best festivals out there! Should they be signed up, which acts would we expect to roll over? I could definitely see Haim and the Chemical Brothers returning but have my doubts for Liam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swede Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 Only a matter of time now until all the remaining festivals are cancelled or postponed now the government are talking about potential social distancing measures for up to a calendar year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkyKeith Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 (edited) well, Longitude in Ireland (Latitudes sister event) has now been cancelled for the 1st week in July - but that was only because the Irish government declared no gatherings over 5000 people until September - Festival Republic have said they wont cancel anything until the respective governments impose a direct ban - so we are going to have to see what the UK Government says Edited April 24, 2020 by KinkyKeith grammatical errors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zahidf Posted April 27, 2020 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 Cancelled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHungryMoomin Posted April 27, 2020 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 Taken from Facebook - sad but the right thing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkyKeith Posted April 27, 2020 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 and yes its genuine - not fake news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapple12345 Posted April 27, 2020 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 I fully expected this to happen but I’m still genuinely devastated, I’m glad they’ve given the opportunity to roll tickets over to 2021 so definitely will be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapple12345 Posted April 28, 2020 Report Share Posted April 28, 2020 17 hours ago, Chapple12345 said: I fully expected this to happen but I’m still genuinely devastated, I’m glad they’ve given the opportunity to roll tickets over to 2021 so definitely will be I’ve been keeping an eye s8nce the announcement and many people seem to be saying they’ll roll over which is a very good sign and I’m glad people are holding it in such high regard. Are we expecting there to be a whole new lineup or some acts carried over? I’m gonna say about 50-75% of the acts will make some sort of appearance as the festival usually does book acts that may have cancelled before (although saying that I don’t think the gods ever want the Futureheads or Snow Patrol to ever play again 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapple12345 Posted May 18, 2020 Report Share Posted May 18, 2020 Has anyone received a refund yet but didn’t request one? It’s happened with my families tickets but we already chose to roll tickets over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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