Sheep poo has caused Bristol festival Another World to be called off

Another World Festival was due to take place from August 3 to 5 at Washingpool Farm, but was cancelled after guidance from a health and safety inspector highlighted the “potential risk to health that the abundance of sheep faeces poses.”

The amount of sheep waste was described as “distressing” and “on all fields” in the site, which was due to host the likes of Bad Company, Phuture, Alix Perez, DJ Pierre, Paul Woolford, A Guy Called Gerald and many more.

Site manager Colin Agius released a statement on Facebook conflicting the words by the health and safety inspector. He said he had "many fields with no problem” and that he “offered several options to the organiser to sort this”.

Agius went on to say the “main event organiser never even attended the site today and tried several times to call him but we were not answered.”

A group has been created on Facebook for the thousands left out of pocket. A screenshot of a Facebook comment left by organiser Lee Boyaka says the festival will follow the “refund policy in our Ts and Cs”.

The T&Cs state: “Where an outdoor Event is cancelled or curtailed because of adverse weather, license, terrorism or other issues beyond our control, We shall not be liable to make any refund or pay any compensation”.

Another World has supposedly had to change its venue twice already and there are reports of a festival advertiser going unpaid for more than 50 hours of work. ‘Nick’ used the now deleted official Another World Facebook account to say that “Lee isn’t honoring our contract.” and that he wanted to work with “legit festivals”.

Ellis Dee, Krome & Time, DJ Twista and Derrick Carter, all pulled out from the fest and, today (August 2), more worrying revelations have emerged. An anonymous DJ booking agency said to Bristol Live said that Juan Atkins had been put down on the line-up to no knowledge of his own.

While the organisers claim that the festival is postponed until summer 2019 and not cancelled, the event page has vanished from the internet.

Max Penny-Barrow is a freelance journalist, follow him on Twitter