From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year

Wild weather may be putting some people off: recent years have seen both record-breaking heat and torrential rain, leaving festival-goers scorched and stranded in mud. But Burning Man is not the only event having a tough year. In April Coachella, America’s biggest music and arts festival, failed to sell out. So did the Reading and Leeds festivals, which began in Britain on August 21st. More than 50 British festivals have been cancelled so far this summer.