While that's true on face value, it's maybe a shade unfair. Glastonbury is a whole other level, with people literally prepared to travel from all over the world.
I would think/hope that the team are smart enough not to pull a stunt like that. Shindig is (jointly) the smallest capacity festival on the list, and so will be a fairly small crew. I'd assume about 150 total, maybe 250 max, and so even if they still needed to fill a majority of the places it won't take that many Glastonbury cancellations for the numbers to match up.
But tbh even if that did turn out to be the case - May 1st is well within the 1 week "penalty free" cancellation window and so anyone who missed out could just cancel the spot and they'd be back to square one.
A couple of years ago, The Quireboys sacked lead singer Spike, the only original member left in the band, and continued to tour as The Quireboys.
He has since regrouped with some of the original band members and tours as The Quireboys.
It's very confusing.
Shindig was added later than all the other festivals so I think they’ve struggled because most people have already committed to the maximum number of festivals they want to do before it was an option.
….& other holiday commitments built around that too.
if I needed this, I’d be stuffed because I’ll be in Greece the last weekend in May but I can see that it’s a good idea for Oxfam to fulfil their contracts, & just like that, Shindig’s now full!
I note that the two sites are only about 25 miles apart.
Couldn't decide if this biased things a bit geographically, one way or the other :
a) if you can do the travel to one, you can do the travel to the other;
b) if you live quite local, it's a whole lot easier than having to make two long treks just a few weeks apart.
But, that seems to have become less relevant, because...
Clearly this strategy is working in the short term - I see that Shindig is now sold out on the Oxfam website.
I wonder if there is now a possibility that priority access on 1st May may NOT guarantee the option of a Glastonbury place ?!?
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