The magistrates court cancelled everything for Friday and then the festival organiser decided to cancel what was left of the whole weekend.
This is the result of nothing less than a massive muddle within the Police. They fully backed the whole proposed event (even to the extent of sending an Inspector to the town council to press the point that the police welcomed the proposed event including all security arrangements) and gave the thumbs up to the district council, who granted the licence.
Then the Police got concerns which they say arose from seeing a video of crowd trouble at a Babyshambles concert in July in the Royal Albert Hall (a venue which very rarely needs to ask for Police assistance). But, Babyshambles have been around and about doing concerts and festivals for years ..... NOTHING is new about them!