Simon Power

about 40% of our sales happen in the last, Ireland's the very last minute country when it comes to ticket sales.

40% of our sales happen within just two or three weeks before the festival.

You know, tickets that I obviously weren't in a great position financially

but didn't have any transparency about that.

They took large amounts of sales, not just from our festival, but believe it or not, there was three festivals on the same weekend that were with tickets that I ate.

So the real figure, our figure is 135,000 plus.

The real figure is more like over half a million.

If you include the other two festivals.

Now I'm in touch with the other festival organisers and they're absolutely and utterly devastated as well.

We're fortunate in some ways in that we had other sources of revenue, not just exclusively from ticket sales.

And we had our own outlets as well.

But it is beyond a gut punch.

You know, it's just it seems so cynical that they allowed all the festivals to happen, continued selling tickets right up until, say, the Friday before the festival, the Friday of the festival.

And then on the Monday, that's when they decided to pull the rug.

And basically, we've no idea where the money is.

I would argue it was not their money.

You know what I mean?

The money that they collected from ticket sales after their fees is something that should have been in escrow and not touched by them.

Yeah, well, I mean, at least in our case, our customers got to experience the festival and look, it's also out of pocket.

But they're saying, approach your promoter,