Festivals Cope With Tent Mystery

Some of the UK’s top festivals including Glastonbury and Electric Picnic have been quick to deal with the problems at Myhab, a firm that provided “luxury festival and event accommodation” for campers.

The Myhab site says that “due to recent and unforeseen events,” the company will not be running a campsite at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

It doesn’t mention what fans should do about getting their money back, but says Glastonbury would provide fans with accommodation free of charge.

Whatever problem the company has appears to have come to light when it warned Glastonbury it couldn’t fulfil its obligations June 17, less than a week before the UK’s biggest festival starts.

Glastonbury chief Michael Eavis immediately stepped in and asked the Green Tent Company to supply similar accommodation at the festival’s expense.

Glastonbury made it clear it had received no money from Myhab, while the Efestivals site estimated the tent firm had taken between £200,000 and £500,000 in bookings. There would have been about 1,500 Myhab tents at Glastonbury.

Ireland’s Electric Picnic issued a statement June 22 saying it “appears that Myhab have gone into insolvency.” It also gave the Myhab contact points and told fans to contact them directly for refunds and compensation.

Myhab also has bookings for Ireland’s Oxegen Festival at Punchestown race track July 7-11.

At press time it wasn’t possible to contact Myhab to find out if it had entered into any insolvency or bankruptcy protection.

The company’s phones are either busy go to voicemail. Pollstar hasn’t received a response to emails requesting clarification of the situation.