Plug pulled on Perthshire music festival 'Mugstock' as organisers bin it for good

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Financial woes have forced organisers to pull the plug on a summer Perthshire music festival for good.It is the second year in a row that MugStock at Strathallan Castle has been cancelled.MugStock had been planned for August 2 to 5, but organisers announced last week “rising costs” meant it was a gamble to proceed with the event.Last year’s MugStock, which would have been its debut in Auchterarder, was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.Acts set to appear in August this year included The Coral, Craig Charles, Utah Saints, Shooglenifty and The Rezillos.The decision to cancel the 2024 event, organisers pointed out, was also the end of the festival on the site of the former T in the Park which ceased in 2016.According to a statement on the MugStock website “all tickets had been refunded” for the 2024 event which “will be the end for MugStock as a festival”.It continued: “We apologise sincerely to everyone who was looking forward to coming, and are beyond grateful to all who got behind our vision.“You helped generate 315 per cent more ticket sales than this time last year.“The event might have been viable, but the rising cost of everything left us with projections ranging from slight profit to massive loss.“We had to choose whether to either gamble or play it safe.

We decided to play it safe.“We hope you’ll support our decision, agonising as is.”Last year’s event, according to organisers, saw “a significant spike in ticket sales” following a public plea, but sales fell short by around 50 per cent of the target and soaring costs had impacted the budget by up to 40 per cent in some areas.Launched in 2015 at East Dunbartonshire’s Mugdock Country Park, organisers hoped to move the festival to the Auchterarder site in 2020 before