July 4th, 2010

In the midst of this summer’s music festival season UK festival organisers are looking at a huge shakeup of royalty payments, the biggest in the past 20 years. This could more than double the compulsory levy on their ticket sales, leading to higher prices for festivalgoers reports the Guardian

It looks like these new proposals will hit the smaller , independent festivals particularly hard. Melvin Benn of Festival Republic, which runs events including Leeds, Reading, and Latitude calls the step “money-grabbing”.