Fields & Yields: Weighing up the 2024 festival season
With the northern hemisphere's summer well underway, Gordon Masson learns about the triumphs and tragedies of this year's festival season
Feature By IQ | 1 July 2025
In the last month, a raft of festivals have celebrated banner editions – from “the best Glastonbury yet” to yet another sold-out edition of Roskilde.
But while the good times continue to roll for some event organisers, elsewhere a perfect storm shows signs of being upgraded to a potentially catastrophic hurricane as the cost-of-living crisis, escalating artist fees, increased production costs, competition from other tours and events, and, perhaps, a touch of fan apathy takes a toll on festivals – large…
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