This is the predicament with TRNSMT now. They have a monopoly in Scotland. DF have even cancelled Connect which would’ve suited a few of these acts more. They don’t need to fork out on big acts because they know they’ll sell tickets on being the only large Scottish festival.
Maybe the story about Nova Rock boss going to LP's show in London and paying extra money to get them to Nova Rock and not to play RAR/RIP could be truth.
From LP live:
"This is interesting because the NovaRock promoter was at the London show and the rumor has been that NovaRock paid exclusively to get LP and for LP to not play at Rock am Ring/Rock im Park.
But the tour was changed according to that one article about a month ago; wonder what they dropped."