ATP's Jabberwocky Festival is cancelled

<s>Jabberwocky</s> - CANCEL.. 2014 - around the festival site (2) — Photo credit: Jason Wood

Jabberwocky - CANCELLED 2014

Friday 15th to Saturday 16th August 2014
ExCeL, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, Newham, Greater London, E16 1XL, England MAP
£35 per day or £60 for 2 days

Daily capacity: 2,000

Organisers have confirmed that Jabberwocky the 2-day Arts, Film & Music Festival due to be held this week from Friday 15th and Saturday 16th August 2014 held at the ExCeL, in London has been cancelled.

A statement from organisers says, "It is with deep sadness we regret to inform everyone that as of today Tuesday 12th August 2014, ATP is being forced into cancelling this weekend's Jabberwocky festival. Refunds will be available to all customers at the point of purchase.

We have put everything into promoting Jabberwocky, and despite healthy ticket sales; all our efforts could not take those sales to the point that we needed to finally stage the event. Over the past month and all the way up until this moment we have tried every possible course of action to follow through in delivering Jabberwocky to you, but the position we unfortunately find ourselves in as a result of a succession of events that have lost money in an increasingly aggressive festival market, means we are no longer able to do so.

In the past ATP has weathered losses such as this and gone on with the show, taking huge direct financial blows as an independent company. But on this occasion, with an event of this scale and the high production costs that come with it - if we had gone ahead; it would have 100% been the end of ATP. We do not take this decision lightly and it was the hardest we've ever had to make.

All other ATP Presents shows will go ahead as planned, including ATP Iceland with our local partners there in 2015.

We apologise to all the people we have let down from fans to the bands, the venue and all the suppliers. We have tried everything in our power to save this event and continue, but the losses we have recently incurred have unfortunately been too much for a company of our size to bear.

For any questions, please contact us at feedback@atpfestival.com

Barry Hogan
All Tomorrow's Parties"

Rumours that the festival was in trouble have surfaced for a month now, ever since the company failed to pay their old PR for several months.

The line-up included James Blake, Liars, Darkside, Thee Oh Sees, Perfect Pussy, Amen Dunes, patten, Paus,I Break Horses, Deafheaven, Kode9, and Chelsea Wolfe on Friday. While on Saturday the line-up includes Neutral Milk Hotel, Caribou, Vatican Shadow, The Ex, Earth, Electric Wizard, Jesu, The Bug, Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek, Forest Swords, The Van Pelt, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Oso Leone, Joana Serrat, Pissed Jeans, Iceage, Speedy Ortiz, Connan Mockasin, Joanna Gruesome, Metz, Hookworms, Eaux, and The Growlers.

Tickets were priced at £60 for both days.

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