Yungblud began his personal pageant to struggle excessive ticket costs.
Yungblud has opened up about his pageant
The 28-year-old rocker launched Bludfest on the Milton Keynes Bowl in 2024 and he is now revealed he got here up with the plan to create his personal music occasion as a result of he was struggling to e-book slots at established festivals and he was outraged by hovering ticket costs.
He instructed the Guardian newspaper: “I wasn’t poppy sufficient for a few of them [the other festivals], I wasn’t heavy sufficient for the rock festivals, so I needed to begin my very own factor.
“And the festivals that weren’t giving me the slots I needed value a lot, 200 to 500 quid a ticket, so we began promoting tickets at 45 quid.”
Bludfest is returning in 2026 and he instructed the publication he hopes for a prove of “50 to 60,000 individuals”.
He beforehand revealed he has excessive hopes for the way forward for the pageant with headline acts like The Remedy and Carry Me The Horizon on the prime of his want checklist.
He instructed Kerrang!: “My plan is to take it to Paris and Prague and Australia. I’d love for it to be a two-day occasion.
“I’d like to have Carry Me The Horizon and The Remedy. I’d like to see unimaginable younger artists like Lola Younger stand up the ranks and headline it.”
The Obey hitmaker – whose actual identify is Dom Harrison – additionally defined he needed to maintain ticket costs low and discover different methods to make cash to make sure the artists on the line-up are paid pretty.
He mentioned: “If you simply flip up and play a gig, you don’t realise what cash goes the place. If I personal my very own factor, I can see issues actually unfold out.
“I’ll make cash somewhere else, nevertheless it was a really massive level for me to solely break-even on the music and pay the artists what they need to be paid.
“I don’t need to ask somebody: ‘This can be a good trigger, will you come and do it for a bit bit much less?’ I used to be like: ‘What’s your payment?’
“I needed to point out it may be achieved this manner. I actually don’t thoughts placing my head above the ditch and getting shot at first.”