BLOC cancelled.

Sorry to hear that TRiP....I've gone to lots of festivals from Ireland in the uk/europe and this massive fail seems to be an exception on the usual quality outside ireland (atp, glade, bangface, warehouse, sonar, strp etc)... don't loose heart!

  On 7/10/2012 at 12:06 PM, phudoshin said:

Sorry to hear that TRiP....I've gone to lots of festivals from Ireland in the uk/europe and this massive fail seems to be an exception on the usual quality outside ireland (atp, glade, bangface, warehouse, sonar, strp etc)... don't loose heart!

i shall not!

A nice article in the Guardian about this from yesterday:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/09/bloc-weekend-2012?newsfeed=true

A link to the blog post I put up on Saturday after realising that I wasn't going to get to watch Squarepusher et al...

http://shapejam.com/blog/bloc-2012-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-queues/

Baselogic are calling for feedback from people at the bloc weekend site:

http://www.blocweekend.com/

by the by... these are the dates to watch for info on the London Pleasure Gardens:

Africa Stage - 21st July/22nd July

Hypercolour Showcase - 11th August

Carnaval del Pueblo - 18th August

Secret Sundaze - 26th August

The place is fuct. If that many people are going to tramp through there with it raining between it will end up like a bog of despair. I'm not sure who is responsible for the place, but it might actually go down as the one truly horrendous f-up of the olympic legacy.

...and some more info:

http://thequietus.com/articles/09308-bloc-festival-london-pleasure-gardens

cocoon have a party planned there too in december i think

the quietus article is brilliant, well done that man

  On 7/11/2012 at 10:09 AM, feltcher said:

the quietus article is brilliant, well done that man

Indeed, some high quality music journalism right there.

Well, that is that then. Bloc have gone into administration, good luck with getting money for any tickets back then...

http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/11/bloc-goes-into-administration/

Fuckers!

  On 7/11/2012 at 3:24 PM, FuncRandm said:

Well, that is that then. Bloc have gone into administration, good luck with getting money for any tickets back then...

 

http://www.factmag.c...administration/

wow. How much was one ticked again?

  Quote

On 11 July 2012, Baselogic Productions Ltd trading as Bloc voluntarily entered administration. The appointed administrator is Jamie Playford of Parker Andrews Insolvency Practitioners. An investigation into the facts leading to Baselogic Productions and the administration will be conducted immediately by Parker Andrews and a further statement will be issued in due course. Jamie Playford said: “It is important that we understand the full facts including what funds will be available to creditors and ticketholders and to ensure the information we provide about the next stages of administration is clear and concise”.

 

That is some truly frightening corporate-speak. Which I suppose means all those poor punters are fucked for a refund.

 

Glad I didn't go. Briefly considered it for the Saturday cause I live five minutes down the road.

 

Incidentally, LPG was only able to be funded with a huge commercial loan from Newham Council - my local council. Way to spend my taxes you shits. How long before they go bust too?

fuckers! This happened to us at bloom festival a few years ago. They went into administration and the festival was cancelled a couple of days before it was due to take place. Nobody got any ticket refunds.

I'm coming to get you cunts.

my advice to whichever promoters fill the vacuum - Don't use up 90% of the money assigned to paying for the artists on the top 2 or 3 acts.

Ticket price can then be cheaper or you can make more money.*

(* I'm not a business man so I don't know if this would really work :)

  On 7/11/2012 at 8:32 PM, beerwolf said:

I'm coming to get you cunts.

I wish.....

  On 7/10/2012 at 2:59 PM, TRiP said:

  On 7/10/2012 at 12:06 PM, phudoshin said:

Sorry to hear that TRiP....I've gone to lots of festivals from Ireland in the uk/europe and this massive fail seems to be an exception on the usual quality outside ireland (atp, glade, bangface, warehouse, sonar, strp etc)... don't loose heart!

 

i shall not!

Squarepusher is playing electric picnic

this is awful, awful news...more'so because i'm flat broke and need that money bad

from what i've heard you can only ring your bank and stop the full payment to bloc if you've bought your ticket within the last 2weeks or so - I could be wrong...i hope i'm wrong. Guess i'll give it a call 2moro and see.

  On 7/11/2012 at 9:21 PM, chassis said:

Squarepusher is playing electric picnic

oh lordie, if only I had the money.

Could you not get a refund if you used your credit card?

Marching to HSBC tomorrow. Fucked off to say the least.

In terms of getting the money back via creditcard company - according to UK laws (not sure about Irish) its up to 200 days from day of purchase, which is encouraging news - could varry depending on credit card company however

http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/sale-of-goods/your-rights-when-paying-by-credit-card/chargeback-on-credit-and-debit-cards/

boy-o-boy, they really screwed things up, eh?

  On 7/11/2012 at 10:56 PM, jhonny said:

Could you not get a refund if you used your credit card?

this is what people are recommending - doing a chargeback immediately. that'll grab the funds back before they ever manage to hit BLOC's accounts and get gobbled up by creditors.

  On 7/12/2012 at 3:12 AM, usagi said:

sad. I earmarked Bloc and ATP as two must-see festivals and now they're both in trouble.

Oh.. GREAT! Thanks a lot Usagi! Thanks for NOTHING

  On 7/12/2012 at 3:12 AM, usagi said:

sad. I earmarked Bloc and ATP as two must-see festivals and now they're both in trouble.

Whoa hold up how is ATP in trouble? Haven't heard about this, was thinking of putting Bloc refunds into ATP tickets :/

  On 7/12/2012 at 2:29 PM, futureimage said:

  On 7/12/2012 at 3:12 AM, usagi said:

sad. I earmarked Bloc and ATP as two must-see festivals and now they're both in trouble.

Whoa hold up how is ATP in trouble? Haven't heard about this, was thinking of putting Bloc refunds into ATP tickets :/

is this what you are talking about: http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2012/07/04/atp-making-changes-as-liquidator-called/

https://www.facebook.com/atpfestival/posts/10150899799876576

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/60187/notices/1613959/type=notices;all=atp;sort=newest