Dedbeat Postpone As Tribal Gathering (Almost) Sells Out

Eclectic holiday camp festival organisers Dedbeat have postponed their next event from November 8th to the 28th February, admitting poor ticket sales prompted the 11th hour switch.

"We could give you some bullshit excuse or proceed and deliver an event that is not up to our high standard, but we are not about taking the easy way out when quality is concerned," the organisers said in a statement.

"The consensus is that this is a financially tight time of year following the summer and the run up to Christmas."

Presumably disagreeing are rival promoters Tribal Gathering whose own holiday camp weekender at Pontins Southpart on the same weekend is close to selling out.

"For those music fans who've bought tickets for other recently cancelled events, we'd like to extend an invitation to join our party," they announced in a cheeky press statement this week. "There are only 600 tickets left."

The two events, in fact, represent radically different ends of clubland, with Tribal Gathering boasting superstar DJs like Sasha, X Press 2 and Dave Clarke against Dedbeat's experimental lineup featuring such people as Mike Paradinas (u-ziq), Supercollider and Rephlex acts. Dedbeat's location of Norfolk (Eastern England) also means its cachment area is largely from the South whereas Tribal Gathering is close to both Liverpool and Manchester. Dedbeat also went to great pains to stress that their event is 'postponed' rather than cancelled.
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