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Rock The Med festival has been cancelled
18th May 2006
Urban Spaceman has just recieved news that Rock The Med -- billed as "the greatest ever tribute festival" -- has been cancelled.
The festival was set to take place on 2nd-3rd June 2006 at Chateau de Valmy, near Perpignan in the South of France. Lined up to play were a great list of the top tribue acts: Björn Again, The Counterfeit Stones, The Bootleg Beatles, Queen on Fire, T.Rextasy, Boot-Led-Zeppelin, The UK Beach Boys and Nearly Dan.
There has been no formal announcement from the festival organisers yet and tickets are even still being sold through their website but the cancellation has been confirmed by two of the bands who were set to play. The reasons for the cancellation are not clear -- the likely thing would be poor ticket sales but rumours that the event's licencing has been revoked by the French authorities have also been heard.