• samc@feddit.uk
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      17 hours ago

      Maybe they had an insurance policy for if a headliner couldn’t attend? In that case definitely easier for the organisers to just cancel and claim

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      19 hours ago

      Two reasons probably

      1. It’s hella expensive to cancel a headliner without cause as this would have been. it triggers all sorts of contract clauses.

      2. The guy running it was peeved at the government blocking the visa, in the long run this probably saves him money.

      Personally I’m annoyed the government has politicised something they had no right to go near.