So is BLOC non existent now or what?

  On 2/4/2013 at 12:39 AM, usagi said:

the amount of people whining like little bitches on Bloc's fb page is astounding.

I'd love to hear your reasoning as to why people shouldn't have a bone to pick with them.

If bloc owe people money

Then they should pay up

Else rave on

Goto start

I hope Bloc never give anybody back their money ever.

i got my money back

so full steam ahead i say

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Some people may not have seen this in the comments of another thread;

 

We really need to address the refunds issue.

 

 

Bloc was run by an independent company that relied on ticket money

coming in, so that it had money to go out, on setting up music

festivals.

 

Up until the Friday that Bloc was cancelled, the

company had always covered all of the bills associated with the festival

with this money - mostly in advance of the event itself. Many

independent festivals happening this summer are set up in exactly the

same way.

 

The company had been going since 2006, pushing the

music we loved and creating some pretty fun parties along the way. Many

of you will have been to Bloc prior to 2012 and we hope you have many

positive memories from those times.

 

Last summer, suddenly, and unexpectedly, the event was cancelled and the company had to refund everyone who had bought tickets.

 

 

But of course it wasn't able to, as that money had already been used to

set up the festival. Despite what you may hear elsewhere, pretty much

everyone including almost all of the artists, had already been paid.

 

So the directors put the company into administration.

 

 

That means that the company no longer belongs to the directors, and

what cash was left in its coffers is transferred over to the

administrators to sort out on behalf of anyone owed.

 

Now we're

not looking for any sympathy, but as a bald statement of fact, the

directors themselves were utterly wiped out financially by this. The

administrators report and company accounts show how little the directors

had been paid over the years. You can look it up. As anyone who

promotes underground music for a living will tell you, it's not about

greed - there are easier ways to get rich.

 

All of this means

that the company that has been set up to run this new series of Bloc

shows does not have any of the money associated with Bloc 2012. And

that's why it can't offer refunds to anyone either - as much as we wish

that it could.

 

Refunds were made available for everyone who

bought their tickets with a UK credit or debit card, via the chargeback

scheme. A form was published and if you filled out your name and address

you could apply. Most people have done this, and received their refund.

 

 

Unfortunately, this wasn't possible for a minority of people.

Those who didn't use a UK bank card or came from abroad could not get a

refund via this method. That’s a brutal reality of everything that

happened and a hard one for us to stomach as you were probably the ones

who made the most effort to be with us.

 

Holding a party which

is free to anyone who has not been refunded is a great idea and one

which we have spent a lot of time trying to make work - but the reality

is that it would be completely impossible to administrate and produce.

 

 

Bloc is something very personal to us. It's been running for more than

ten years in many different formats and it's grown so much bigger than

we ever knew it would - with your backing and support. We don't want to

let one cancelled event ruin what had been such a positive thing.

 

 

We understand all the frustrations, the anger, the annoyance - we've

felt all of this too, in fact lived it for the past six months. But we

can't allow ourselves to be buried by them.

 

Some of you are

furious with us and everything we stand for. That's understandable. But

some people they would like to give us a second chance - and that's

brilliant.

 

We're grateful to them, and if they want to come to

the parties that we run, and enjoy them, we want them to be able to.

Thanks to all of you who have already booked into the new series, it's

going to be great.

 

So we're getting back up, slowly, producing

the kind of events that we used to in the past, and hopefully replacing

foul memories with good ones. The only thing for us is to move forward.

And we would like you to come with us.

 

Bloc x

Event was cancel because they were in London.

So logically the next step......is to host more nights in London.

Honestly I'm happy with one nighters in London. It's Bloc festivals I don't want in London.

well its not a festival anymore so

I honestly cannot understand why they are using the name "bloc".

If the original directors are no longer in control and the bloc name is partially mud due to the bad feelings after last years festival, why don't they start again under a different name?

If this line-up was announced as a new pop-up series of events called, i dunno, "Bric", in a warehouse somewhere, they wouldn't be having this problem.

You've gotta be some sort of retard if you haven't yet got a refund. Seriously it was clearly spelt out how to do it all over the web.