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Burnt out From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year Tickets are no longer selling out Regular attendees at Burning Man, an annual week-long festival in the Nevada desert, normally scramble to buy tickets. This year they are scrambling to sell them. The gathering of hippies and billionaires, which begins on August 25th, has failed to sell out for the first time since 2010. Tickets with a face value of $575 are being flogged on the secondary market at less than half-price. Wild weather may be putting some people off: recent years have seen both record-breaking heat and torrential rain, leaving festival-goers scorched and stranded in mud. But Burning Man is not the only event having a tough year. In April Coachella, America’s biggest music and arts festival, failed to sell out. So did the Reading and Leeds festivals, which began in Britain on August 21st. More than 50 British festivals have been cancelled so far this summer. Higher costs are partly to blame. The loc
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