The 100% Retro music pageant in Bobbejaanland is canceled tomorrow, August 20th. One working day in advance of the party started out, persons who bought a ticket gained an email. “I bought 6 tickets on Friday, three hours soon after the pageant was canceled.”
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– Laura Lynn was also on the canceled competition poster. Photo: RR
“Inspite of the promising product sales results forward of the 100% Retro Retro festival in Bobbejaanland, the existing financial circumstance has unsuccessful to maintain going,” the organizers said in an e mail. “In consultation with several companions, it has been made a decision to shift the function to Sunday, August 20, 2023. Tickets keep on being legitimate for the new date.”
The retro competition in Bobbejaanland amusement park was named Yesterdayland and experienced by now had 3 editions, but apparently the ticket gross sales this 12 months was disappointing. On August 15, 100% Retro’s Fb website page introduced that almost everything would go forward as prepared on August 20.
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Soulsister, an additional title on the invoice.
Picture: RR
The new music competition promised artists from the 60s, 70s and 80s and this 12 months noticed 30 artists such as The Fortunes, The Dinky Toys, Helmut Lotti, Londonbeat, UDO, The Trammps, Frans Bauer, Mama’s Jasje, Johnny Logan, 2 Limitless and Soul Sister.
Yesterday earth
Yesterdayland, the predecessor of 100% Retro, experienced a bad hand. Individual bankruptcy proceedings had been initiated from Amusement Companions Belgium, the company powering it. According to Hugo Foets of Leisure Associates, an objection experienced been submitted, it was a late payment and would have been “corrected”. Foets ran the after effective artist agency King Enjoyment with Clouseau and Natalia in the stable, among the many others, but which had to be abandoned in 2015.
The municipality of Bredene stopped doing the job with Foets in 2017 because the suppliers were not paid for arranging the Ibiza @ the Seaside summer time competition.
In 2019, all through the third version of Yesterdayland, which attracted eleven thousand website visitors to Bobbejaanland, all was not very well: the promised heat steps left some thing to be desired, there have been complaints about tough-to-come across bathrooms and the closing observe Sister Sledge it could only sound a hit thanks to the delays in the program.
In early July of this 12 months, it was announced that Yesterdayland would now be called 100% Retro Competition.
Not normal
Artist manager Ilia Beyers had two of her stars on the canceled competition poster that includes Helmut Lotti and Laura Lynn: “We also have only this morning (Friday early morning, pink.) acquired an e mail stating that 100% Retro Festival has been canceled. ‘
In accordance to Beyers, it is not customary for every thing to be canceled just the day before a festival starts off. She would not imagine it can be feasible and cannot warranty that the very same artists will be able to return to the pageant future calendar year.
Reimbursement
Maasmechelen’s Agnes Tilmans fell out of the blue when she examine the cancellation electronic mail. ‘I bought six tickets for 486 euros on Friday early morning. Three several hours later they advise me that the festival is canceled, I am furious and I want my money again ‘, mort Agnes.
“The oversupply and totally free festivals are actively playing tricks on us,” suggests organizer Hugo Foets. “It would not be lucrative to let the pageant just take area.”
But were being the tickets continue to marketed on Friday morning? ‘It could be. Only late Thursday evening was it determined to postpone the competition, immediately after consulting sponsors and associates. But whoever has the tickets can continue to keep them for next 12 months or get their cash back, ‘promises Foets.
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