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Barcelona Metal Festival cancels 2015 event
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 20 January 2015
Hot on the heels of last week’s Sonisphere UK statement, the Barcelona Metal Festival has announced that it will also not take place in 2015.
Only launched last year, its first edition headlined by Within Temptation, organisers yesterday blamed the size of fees bands are demanding and Spain’s high VAT rate for the cancellation.
A statement on the event’s website reads: “The conditions were not favourable for us to be able to hold this second edition in 2015 in the manner we would have liked. The proliferation across Europe of festivals of this genre, the increase in the fees of many bands and the fact that Spain has the highest rate of VAT in Europe on the price of a ticket (21%), means that our offers were not sufficiently attractive for artists of the calibre required by BMF”.
The event had been set to take place on 13 Jun. Organisers say that they hope to return in 2016.
