Bluedot, Pitchfork latest fests disrupted by weather

Other festivals hindered by adverse conditions include Spain's Primavera, the Netherlands' Awakenings and the UK's Kaleidoscope

Bluedot at Jodrell Bank Observatory
Bluedot at Jodrell Bank Observatory © One Eye In

Bluedot (UK) and Pitchfork Festival Chicago (US) are the latest festivals to be disrupted by extreme weather conditions.

Organisers of the music and science festival Bluedot were forced to cancel Sunday day tickets due to the “unprecedented amount of rainfall over the past seven days that saw the water level reach saturation point during [Saturday] night”.

This rendered the day ticket holder car park, pick-up and drop-off point and entrances “impassable,” according to a post on the festival’s website and…

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