Thousands of revellers hoping for food and booze after the long trek to this year’s Download found themselves out of pocket when the festival’s new cashless payment system failed on day one.
However, a cock-up caused the funds to not be transferred and the once promising idea suffered ‘minor technical issues’ according to the organisers who apologised to revellers who were without any way to pay for their overpriced burgers and lukewarm beer.
In a great strike of irony, the system that was intended to remove queues from Download festival has actually only gone and caused more lines to form as the unwashed masses have been charging to the information desks in hope of salvation from their starvation.
The Download festival organisers might be having a bit of a rethink about their wireless payment gimmick and should probably try to be a bit less smart next year, especially after this most sobering situation.