Germany’s MELT 2024 to be last ever due to “insurmountable changes in the festival landscape”

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DJ Mag): “Despite our commitment and efforts in recent years, we recognise that the original Melt no longer fits into the German festival market and cannot withstand the developments of recent years without radically altering the festival concept.

It’s a difficult decision, but we believe it’s time to explore new paths and create space for fresh ideas.”A post shared by MELT Festival (@meltfestival)MELT 2024 is set to take place July 11 through 13 and will be returning to its usual location, Ferropolis – also known as the city of Iron – in Gräfenhainichen, Germany.

You can purchase tickets here.Overmono, Chase & Status, Bonobo, Eris Drew, DJ Python, Honey Dijon and Marcel Dettmann and more are set to perform at the fest.In the UK, it was recently announced that 40 UK festivals have now been cancelled for this summer, and new reports have found that over 170 have disappeared over the past five years.In the past five years alone, 172 festivals in the UK have disappeared.

96 events were lost due to COVID, 36 were lost throughout 2023, and now, 40 have already been lost since the start of the year.The new figures were shared by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) – the UK’s leading not-for-profit festival trade association, which represents the interests of 202 UK music festivals, ranging from 500 to 80,000 capacity.AIF has warned that this is a trend that will continue to grow without government aid, and revealed that, without intervention, the country will see over 100 festivals disappear in 2024.It highlights how the main issue at hand is the unpredictable rising costs, and that the UK hasn’t had a single steady festival season since the pandemic to help it recover – meaning that festivals are under more.