18/06/2026
It's a funny old game, events and gig promotion! 🤡
Right now the challenges for organisers / promoters are genuinely tougher than ever before. Everything is on a knife edge, lots of things getting cancelled or under threat.
And yet at Fuelled By Cider we somehow keep pushing through, even taking on new and interesting events.
The Mad Dog Mcrea Weekender was a sell out affair in April and both our upcoming Bristol promotions with El Pony Pisador and Shanghai Treason have started selling well from the get go.
We've managed to book some incredible bands on our little budget including Panic Shack The Molotovs Peat & Diesel Skinny Lister and ALT BLK ERA
Festival sales remain a big challenge as people make their decisions later and later. If there's one wish a genie could make come true, it's that everyone would buy their Outcider Festival Cursus Festival and In Cider Festival tickets in advance so we can breathe normally and actually enjoy the lead up to events! 😊
But overall we're doing well - proof that the grassroots music scene is still fighting, still relevant, still necessary ✊
We want to send our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has continued to support FBC by buying tickets, bringing new people and generally saying positive things about what we do and how we do it. It might be challenging and frustrating for us at times, but we still absolutely LOVE doing what we do! 💖
Also to the grassroots artists plugging away in the face of falling sales, fewer events / venues and an industry that wants to undermine and exploit you at every turn: Don't give up! Stay creative! Keep believing! 💫
So give the corporates a miss and support the grassroots wherever you can folks. The future is in all of our hands!
Fuelled By Cider
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PHOTO: Marvellous Gig Photography
