Beach Break Live Needs New Festival Site
Councillors have forced the festival to move location.
Beach Break festival has been refused the appropriate licenses - in what organisers have described as 'a completely unique set of circumstances' - for this year's event to take place at the current site of St Agnes in Cornwall, days before the festival was set to take place (16th June).
A statement has been released, saying: "On Wednesday last week we took the hit of the century and the event was controversially and unexpectedly de railed by a small number of well connected Councillors against the advice of every authority and the planning department. Since then St Agnes has been back on, then back off, solicitors and barristers employed, back on, tears shed, and then again back off.
Then, on Thursday the council, who wanted the event to go ahead but who were not willing to undermine their councillors, told us they believed they had found a way for the event to be held on an amazing site 10 minutes down the road. We wept with relief, and were about to tell you all on when the ordeal started again with us being told the event could run, then it could not, then it could and then finally that it could not.
We are currently working on a plan to salvage the start of your summer. We are looking at two main options – the first one is to hold the event at another site. The second is to run a camping event at a different beach location. Whatever happens the scene is set for a legendary week. The Beach Break spirit does not dwindle."
More information will be announced shortly, but in the meantime you can read more about it here. Dizzee Rascal, Mystery Jets and Friendly Fires are amongst those set to play.
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