Neon Picnic cancelled
PA Auckland Organisers who late yesterday afternoon cancelled the week-end Neon Picnic music festival are believed to owe hundreds of thousands of dollars. As campers began to arrive at the Pukekawa farm venue last evening, the co-organisers,
Ms Lindsay Mace and Ms Heather Worth, were calling off the three-day event from their Ponsonby headquarters. The inability to pay construction workers to finish the stage and lighting, and to pay a company to provide portable toilets to the site, ended lastditch efforts to save the event.
“People wouldn’t touch the Neon Picnic with money after the (sharemarket) crash,” Ms Worth said. “It is not a blue riband investment” The Irish rock star and famine campaigner, Bob Geldof, will give a free concert in Auckland this evening after the cancellation of the festival.
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