When Splendour in the Grass was cancelled just five days after tickets went on sale, I had a few theories about why.
Among them were: kids don’t like festivals anymore, market over-saturation giving punters too much choice, and headliners choosing to do their own shows.
One reader, Emily, had a different theory:
“I don’t know if it’s always been this way …
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