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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation to read the news this

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Speaker 1: morning that the Byron Bay Blues Festival is not going

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Speaker 1: to be returning next year. It is over. And this

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Speaker 1: is just the latest and a big line of festivals

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Speaker 1: that have been canceled. Really, this is probably the biggest

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Speaker 1: one to call it quits. But we've had big day Out,

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Speaker 1: sound Wave, Stereosonic, all kind of carct it over the

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Speaker 1: last decade and interesting last year at this festival. Jimmy Barnes,

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Speaker 1: Jack Johnson, Tom Jones, Ben Harper, Elvis Costello draws big

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Speaker 1: names and they still can't sustain it.

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Speaker 2: They're expensive, and also I think they've become too mainstream.

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Speaker 2: All those festivals they used to be great. You used

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Speaker 2: to be able to go along there and you know,

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Speaker 2: you get out of your gorde and watch the grateful

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Speaker 2: dare does someone play? Those days are gone. It's come

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Speaker 2: to corporatize. Now you're gonna have your little thing on

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Speaker 2: and you can't drink this. You drink watery, mid strength beer.

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Speaker 2: It's on Neil Diamond and they're feeding me that horrible

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Speaker 2: great northern junk. Don't give me a real beer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But in terms of music festivals, we're talking sort

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Speaker 1: of the true nature of a music festival where you

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Speaker 1: go for a couple of days and you camp and

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Speaker 1: you see a whole lot of bands over that period

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Speaker 1: of time.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever done that?

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Speaker 1: No, it's not my thing, but it's interesting that doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to be many people's thing anymore. The nature of

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Speaker 1: it has changed. A national survey has found that people

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Speaker 1: aged eighteen to thirty five found that ninety percent of

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Speaker 1: people were deterred from going to festivals because of security issues.

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Speaker 1: Interesting cost.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, you mean security issues as they were worried about

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Speaker 2: their security or security was too or.

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Speaker 1: Too strong to diagnos. But as they're saying here too,

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Speaker 1: it's not just the cost of a ticket to the festival.

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Speaker 1: It's the price of getting their cost of accommodation. And

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Speaker 1: you add that up against going to see a big

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Speaker 1: act in town like Taylor Swift. They say people would

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Speaker 1: rather fork out on one ticket for a big one

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Speaker 1: night concert that you're going to have fomo over that

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Speaker 1: everyone you know is going to be talking about. You

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Speaker 1: get ready in your own home, you go to the show,

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Speaker 1: and you go home again. That's where people are preferring

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Speaker 1: to spend their money and I wonder too if you

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Speaker 1: know that just we did this as a pub test

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Speaker 1: last year when another one got canceled, and Normal said

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Speaker 1: that her daughter used to love going to festivals. The

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Speaker 1: COVID years kind of changed it. That demographic now don't

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Speaker 1: want to go and live in a tent for three days.

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Speaker 1: They'd like to spend their money on nice things like

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Speaker 1: make up, they want to have a shower. They don't

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Speaker 1: want to do what festival goers used to love, which

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Speaker 1: was that Woodstock kind of roll around in the mud.

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Speaker 1: But the ones overseas that Glastonbury is still going strong.

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Speaker 2: It's got the population and get iron made.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing, Queen, You're going to get all the

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Speaker 1: biggest bands in the world. Because these concerts are getting

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Speaker 1: are starting to get cancelations. It's really hard now to

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Speaker 1: book in acts that can that can do it. Lack

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Speaker 1: of ticket sales at a festival has a knock on effect,

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Speaker 1: as they say, promoters can't pay the artists, all the vendors,

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Speaker 1: so you're left without those basic tenets of a festival.

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Speaker 2: I like the idea of a musical festival, but I

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Speaker 2: don't want to go to one, but I like the

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Speaker 2: idea of it.

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Speaker 1: It goes back for me to Portaloos and stuff like

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Speaker 1: the toilets, the toilet.

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Speaker 2: You when you're at not Fest last year you complained

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Speaker 2: endlessly about the toilet.

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Speaker 1: I think, can I get a cup of cheap I

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Speaker 1: thought the toilets were could the chair with some back

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Speaker 1: support

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Speaker 2: And also slipnot was in and that not I know,

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Speaker 2: I was devo