NASS skateboard festival cancelled for 2024 amid rising costs
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A skateboard festival has been cancelled for 2024 due to rising costs to run it.
NASS in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, usually attracts about 30,000 people for live music and skateboarding.
In a statement on Facebook, organisers said: “We have found ourselves impacted by the cost-of-living crisis and an increase in operational costs.
“Despite our best efforts, it’s just not economically feasible for us to continue.”
This year’s sell-out event was held from 6 to 9 July 2023 at the Bath and West showground in Somerset.
Along with skateboarding, the festival also features live music, BMX, and street art.
Artists including Chase & Status, Joel Corry and Little Simz headlined the 2023 event.
‘First festival’
Festival fan Libby Bunker, 24, from Weston-super-Mare, has been to NASS several times in the past five years.
She said: “It’s really sad news as it was the first proper festival I ever went to.
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“NASS is such an iconic event and it showed me the culture of the festival scene.
“It also gave us young people in the south west the opportunity to experience a festival in a smaller, securer environment before attending the larger festivals.
“I can imagine it’ll impact the skateboarding and BMX community a lot.”
In the statement from NASS, it said festival organisers were “incredibly privileged” that so many people loved the festival and “thanked everyone involved for their support”.
The BBC approached NASS for a further comment about whether the event would return in 2025.