After the Quart Festival caved in and died last year, despite a pretty impeccable programme, I was sure we’d heard the last from the festival. But since then, news have poured in from their grave; concerts relocated to Oslo; Quart starts up again, Quart were druglords, and now, VG claims The Doors’ manager is Quart’s new head of booking. This comes as somewhat of a surprise after the festival’s claim earlier that despite sporting one of the country’s largest booking budget, they were not to hire a main booker. The festival merely announces Bill Siddons being part of a great booking team to Dagbladet today.
While Skral Festival recently decided to quit while on top, and Oslo Live leapt into their low-cost-low-fares version of the game, with ticket prices as low as 99NOK, Quart has truly dived head first out from their bancrupcy womb. Dagbladet reports that festival passes are more expensive than ever at 2250NOK, a price that will increase at the announcement of the first artist. Quart boss Aril Buli claims this won’t be a problem as the headliners every day will be bigger than Bowie. With a 50 mill NOK booking budget, that does seem feasible…
Let’s see if this gets the crowd on a pilgrimage to Kristiansand. A posher crowd than ever by prospect of steep prices, Beach Quart and party boats. Did I hear a ‘Spring Break!!’ ?
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