Gracenote Promotion Ltd (GPL), the company behind Morvala Festival, has gone into administration, leaving contractors, suppliers and musicians saying they remain unpaid.

This is after the festival was held on 25-28 June in Cornwall. The company also ran Kernowfornia in Looe, which was set for 4–6 September but has now been cancelled.

As reported by the BBC, the festival’s site manager Tom Ogilvie, from Cawsand in Cornwall, said “as a freelance crew, you are 100% reliant on the festival holding up their end of the bargain to pay you when all is said and done, and if that doesn’t happen you have no real recourse.

I will lose £10,000, the rest of the site crew will lose up to £20,000 and you know that goes on tenfold probably for all the people affected… the scale of it and magnitude of it is staggering.”

In its article, the BBC also states GPL has told ticket buyers it was “not in a financial position to issue refunds directly.”

In a statement on social media, Gracenote Promotions wrote, “to every artist, supplier, contractor, freelance, member of staff, volunteer and every individual or business who worked so incredibly hard to make Morvala possible, we are so deeply sorry.

We know many of you placed your trust in us. Many of you committed months of work, invested your own time and resources, supported us through an incredibly to make Morvala possible, we are deeply sorry.”

The Instagram accounts for Morvala and Kernowfornia are now private, and the Morvala website is no longer active.

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