Current financial challenges are affecting both festival goers and the businesses which rely on festivals going ahead.
Glastonbury paints a picture of a thriving festival scene, but many of the smaller UK musical weekends which built up a following pre-COVID haven't been able to balance their books this year, with rising costs and poor ticket sales leading to numerous last-minute cancellations. The knock-on effect is being felt by many who earn a living from the sector.Helen Bayett, 30, from Bristol, is the owner and manager of Hot P'tatoes, a food stall at Glastonbury.
"Everything has gone up… it's so expensive to do, we can't afford the petrol and the running costs and the stock costs. "You have to have all your cash up front for these kind of things, so it relies on having it ticking over in the summer to build that backup up so that you can then go again.Normal service might have resumed at Glastonbury - but post-COVID there is now a whole new set of challenges for the live music industry.
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