Originally planned as a two fingered salute to WOMAD after they took the councillors' freebie tickets away to Wiltshire, the cancellation of "nuLabFest" has come as a bitter blow to the freeloading mock-socialist councillors of Reading. The festival originally planned for the weekend of the 10th-12th July was made free after people refused to buy their policies, but even that failed to tempt people out to back them in public.
Bands scheduled to play the cancelled festival included: 176,891 Maniacs, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead, Faith No More, Garbage, Jane's Addiction and The Who?
Martin Salter MP has pledged to dance in a field in Reading East for the whole of the weeekend to keep the festival alive whilst fellow Labour Party members play Peruvian nose flutes, shake their maracas, pluck their big fat lyres and leg it with lute from the Houses of Parliament allowances.
If anyone would like complementary tickets for the replacement "nunuLabFest" they will be able to pick them up from under the counter.