Thank you
Firstly can I thank you all for yet another fantastic BML and for giving the festival your support. We hope you enjoyed yourselves and were entertained by the bands in the line up over the weekend. We had some great bands this year and have received feedback from them praising the festival and its fans!
We are a core team of three that put on this festival and we do our best to make sure your festival improves each year. When we get it wrong, you tell us and if it’s achievable we’ll fix it. Based on your comments last year we think we have achieved this.
BML is a small intimate festival that is relatively unknown to agents and bands in the industry. As such it’s a massive challenge to book bands for our festival that we know would be a big draw. There’s also a saturation of festivals in August such as T in the Park, V, Leeds/Reading, Connect, Electric Picnic, Jersey Live etc. that more often than not have exclusivities on artists/bands preventing them from playing other gigs. An example of this is not being able to announce Scouting for Girls until after V. Another example is being prevented from booking Shed Seven because SJM, the bands national promoter and promoter of V festival said no.
However, every band that plays BML tells us how surprised and delighted they are at the level of production and organisation and how well the fans receive them. From this we can only hope that in time the reputation of the festival will establish itself on the radar of agents making the job of booking bigger named artists that bit easier.
Tickets
The success of the festival depends very much on your support. The bigger the take up on tickets the longer the festival will continue. We are not some corporate money-grabbing machine in fact we do not make any profit at all and indeed are unlikely to whilst we subsidise the free day. The rise in ticket prices this year was not a way of making a quick buck but a natural consequence of the festival’s spiralling costs due to our commitment to make it better. All income generated from ticket sales and concessions such as the bar and catering goes straight back into the event. Much to the disillusion of punters the booking fee added to the ticket price is not income. It’s a misconception that that we are charging more than the price of the ticket. This is the handling charge of the ticket agent and it is the agent that retains this fee not the festival.
Finally, thanks again for your support. We have taken on board your emails and letters and hope to bring you an even better festival next year featuring bigger names and the best in emerging talent but still at an affordable price.
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