Antiworld probably the worst festival in the world ever
Well lets begin with the good points:
- it stopped raining late Thursday night
- err that's it...

Now that we got that out of the the way let me tell you a little story of what could be described as a huge fuck up. From the very beginning the festival was a half million over budget with ticket sales hovering around the 4000 mark, for an event that could hold up to 12000 people. According to my source the promoters where aware of this problem more than a month ahead of the festival but decided to push ahead with it anyway.
Thus by the time the punters turned up the line up had been cut in half as a cost cutting measure...hmmm £110 pound a ticket and half the acts gone, a good start. Overall the music was pretty poor with the trance being mainly commercial Israeli acts. As for as the other types of music was concerned nothing stood out either. Now so far the main problems could be put down to my tastes in music which tend to favour hip hop and its ilk, but I do like my squelchy psy-trance and having a little boogie in the sunshine, but there wasn't even much of that.
But lets move on to moment that really gives Antiworld its special place in the world of festivals. At approximately 2 pm on the Sunday the music topped, that's right the festival was cancelled. Apparently the night before the sewage disposal company managed to dump all the shit into the staff canteen, forcing the council to give the promoters 24 hours notice to shut down.
Now this was 24 hours from Sunday afternoon, so you may think why did the music have to stop, the police on site stated that they where not going to stop the event at this point and that the punters where allowed to stay on site till 1pm the next day, but hell why continue when you can pull the plug blaming the sewage disposal company and in the process save some money. How much money. who knows? but my sources revealed to me that this allowed them to get out of paying a 22 grand electricity bill, and other things such as peoples wages, also they cancelled the rest of Sundays acts, saving a bit more money and I imagine the promotion company will declare its self bankrupt so that the punters that wasted their money on this festival wont be getting any kind of compensation.
Now I don't know how much of this was down to inexperience on the part of the promoters but when when acts such as Evil Nine canceled due to his agent advising him that he probably wouldn't get paid it suggests that the promoters knew problems where afoot but carried on regardless.
In hindsight putting on a electronic festival 2 weeks after Glastonbury and 2 weeks before Glade shows a certain amount of arrogance on the part of the promoters especially considering their reputation is built around running a trance night in London, this was a very big step up and I guess their lack of experience showed in the end.