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The annual street and club festival Distortion will need to undergo drastic changes if it is to return next year, warns its lead organiser.

Distortion organiser Thomas Fleurquin, pictured, was disappointed by the low turn-out for the evening events, writing “Don’t they know Distortion is a festival of club culture, where the street parties are intended as a free and cosy warm-up for the club night fun?” (Photo: Peter Stanners)

The festival, which visits a different Copenhagen district on each its five days, saw up to 100,000 people attend each of the street parties.

But despite their soaring popularity, the night-time Club Clash events were massively undersubscribed, with only 2,500 of the 230 kroner tickets sold for Friday night’s event when sales of 6,000 tickets were needed to break even. (more…)