Published
Fri, Feb 20, 2015, 16:48
- The festival has vacated its home in rural Yorkshire to hold events in three northern cities.
Beacons will not hold a festival in 2015, with organisers announcing a series of events in Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool.
An announcement made via the Beacons website says people who bought earlybird tickets for this year's festival, which was due to take place in the Yorkshire Dales, would receive a full refund. It was also revealed that they'll be rebranding as Beacons Metro for 2015 with "a series of exciting residencies in Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool." The main focus will be in Leeds, where the Beacons crew will take over a three-storey former textile factory in the city centre for a "12-week program of cutting edge music, art, film and food events in over 11,000 square feet of previously unused space."
The statement adds: "Despite the feeling that 2014 was the best Beacons Festival so far, the feedback we received from the vast majority of festival goers in 2014 was that the cost of attending a traditional camping festival was becoming increasingly difficult to meet.
"Our desire to make Beacons more accessible, combined with the opportunity to work with some amazing partners at some truly unique spaces, was enough to convince us that the time was right to move onto the next stage of the festival's evolution."
Beacons say full details of the events series will be released over the coming weeks.