Update: TribeOne Festival to get sued?
Yesterday we shared an interview with local rockers Shadowclub a week before they were due to take to the rock stage at the inaugural TribeOne Festival next week.
Fans will be disappointed to hear that the festival, which also featured international acts like Nicki Minaj, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Kid Ink and J Cole will have to wait a bit longer.
The inaugural music festival, which was going to be hosted by the City of Tshwane has been cancelled.
Tribe One Festival posted this statement on their Facebook page:
“TribeOne Festival regrets to announce that the inaugural TribeOne Festival, set to take place in Cullinan on 26, 27 and 28 September 2014, has been cancelled. The event was to be hosted by the City of Tshwane (CoT).
"Site preparation and related infrastructure development required to host the Festival, being the responsibility of the CoT, fell behind schedule to a material extent, such that it was no longer realistically possible to stage and deliver the Festival to the scale and quality that the organizers had always planned. Under the circumstances, and despite efforts to seek alternative arrangements, the organizers have had no option but to cancel the event.
"TribeOne Festivals apologises to all of those who were looking forward to the Festival – both the ticket holders, and the international and local performing artists who were booked by TribeOne Festivals for the event.
"All ticket holders will be reimbursed, details of this process will be announced shortly. (sic)"
UPDATE:
Business Day has reported that teh latest developments in the TribeOne Festival is that the City of Tshwane is shocked by the "unilateral decision" by organisers, Rockstar 4000, led by Sony Music Entertainment Africa, to cancel the festival.
It is reported that the city is taking them to court to force them to continue with the festival.
The City of Tswhane told Business Day: "Although the City has, in good faith, supported the festival by providing a venue for the festival, installing the necessary infrastructure, and making an agreed financial contribution, the City recently learnt with shock of the event organisers’, led by Sony Music Entertainment Africa, unilateral decision not to proceed with the staging of the mega music festival."
"The organisers had chosen an open space which had no infrastructure whatsoever for the venue, and requested the City to develop roads, install water supply and electricity and prepare the stage area, all of which the City delivered," it said.
Meanwhile TribeOne has promised to reuimburse all the fans who already bought tickets to teh festival.
