THE company behind a music festival in Perth has collapsed a month after its organisers blamed poor ticket sales due to the BBC hosting an event in a neighbouring city.
Bosses behind Replay Festival, which was due to take place on South Inch on August 15-16, announced the new event back in November.
However, just weeks before the festival, organisers called it off as they said ticket sales had slumped by more than 50% after the BBC announced its plans for an event in Stirling at the same time.
The BBC’s Radio 2 in the Park had originally been announced for the weekend before the Replay Festival, but it was moved back to September 11-13 after discussions between the organisers.
It has since been revealed that the Pitlochry-based Replay Music Festival Limited has appointed insolvency practitioners and is entering liquidation, according to The Courier.
The appointment of liquidators comes as hundreds of ticketholders for the event have yet to receive a refund.
Oldham-based licensed insolvency practitioners Bridgestone contacted ticketholders on Wednesday to confirm Replay Festival is “unable to provide a refund” because it is “ceasing to trade, insolvent and due to go into liquidation,” according to reports.
Replay Festival’s organisers had said in July that the event would be postponed until May 2027 on Wednesday night, while also putting out an 800-word statement blasting the BBC for “killing off grassroots independent music culture from London”.
A statement by the organisers at the time accused the BBC of poaching acts from their line-up, such as Blue, who are performing in Stirling instead.
Replay claimed the BBC event tried to book Natalie Imbruglia, who was supposed to headline the event, but the star declined.
In a statement, Replay said at the time: “As we were negotiating for solutions in good faith to save the Scottish festival market, the BBC had already signed their acts and clearly misled us.”
Bosses behind Replay added: “Simply put, the BBC have acted in poor faith, and this has affected both Replay and other local festivals in 2026, both in terms of brand reputation and financially.
“This one event has cost Scottish festivals and their supporting infrastructure hundreds of thousands of pounds and has led to the loss of smaller independent events taking place up and down the country.
“We have tried our very best to get Replay to where we had predicted it would be when we launched in November 2025, but we simply cannot continue and run at a further substantial loss.”
