From 2013, the Crawl is moving back to the colder months...
Don’t say we didn’t tell you so, but it seems that after last year’s admittedly sparse edition of the Camden Crawl, the organisers have decided to return the festival back to its roots with a stripped down festival in October, with the springtime event moving to Dublin.
According to the press-release that flopped into our inbox this lunchtime, the organisers explain the reasoning for the decision as “not so much as a response to the very overcrowded early summer festival marketplace, but as a craving to be different”, but with the continued success of Brighton’s Great Escape festival and the added competition from the likes of SXSW and Primavera which both occur around the same time as the Crawl, we can't help but think that a move to a less crowded October slot has some pretty shrewd business thinking behind it.
To be fair, after last year’s almost sponsorship-free version of the festival, we were kind of starting to worry that the Crawl would be the latest victim of the saturated festival market, which has already seen similar ‘one-ticket, many-venue’ events fail over the last couple of years. Line-up announcements are coming soon.
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