Vince Power reiterates Hop Farm festival will return this year


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Vince Power, organiser of the Hop Farm festival among others, has reaffirmed his desire to bring the event back as normal for 2013 after local paper the Kent News released figures recently which claimed Hop Farm owed thousands of pounds to two of its headliners when it entered administration last year.

Describing the financial troubles Hop Farm faced last year as the ‘one blip in his career’, and describing Kent News’ revelations as a ‘cheap piece of journalism’, Power says:

“The Hop Farm will happen this year, this is one blip in my career spanning over 30 years. All suppliers and artists are working with me and many of the suppliers have been with me for many years, through  the Reading, Phoenix and Homelands days. They are being very supportive.”

I spent and paid artists alone approx. £350 million over the years. The losses reported are inaccurate. The Hop Farm never lost 4.8million. These losses included a group of companies in Kent Festival Ltd.”

“I have no doubt that this year’s Hop Farm will be successful along with FIB Benicassim in Spain. This is a cheap piece of journalism from Kent on Sunday. It’s a public
company so all the info is public knowledge. The local rag is supposed to be for the community. The Hop Farm Festival is loved by the people of Kent and there is no value in
spreading inaccurate reports and doubt with regards to The Hop Farm Music Festival.”

“In the words of Winston Churchill…”Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”


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