If you haven’t heard, last weekend saw a disastrous public event unravel in Sydney. This time, locals are incensed about the mismanagement of the Yaks Barbecue Festival Sydney, which as the name says, was meant to be a festival all about barbecue.

The issue? There wasn’t a whole lot of barbecue to go around. Instead of being “all about meat, smoke, summer and good times”, punters claim the event was more about huge queues, bad weather, and hungry stomachs.

Apparently, organisers had failed to account for incoming storms and the large turnout at the event, with vendors running out of food within hours, leaving many punters feeling ripped off and rather hungry.

As News Corp reports, hundreds of outraged patrons took to social media over the weekend to accuse organisers of failing to deliver on their promises, some even claiming they would be looking into pursuing a class action suit.

However, not all of the criticism has been aimed in the right direction. Organisers MMJ Events seem to be a pretty fair cop at this point for not providing an adequate amount of food during a barbecue festival.

However, caught in the crossfire are Mothership Events, who simply provided personnel for the event. You may remember Mothership Events as the organisers of the Above The Harbour New Year’s Eve festival, which was a debacle unto itself.

In that particular case, it seems Mothership were indeed at fault for putting on a lacklustre NYE event, despite charging up to $500-a-head and promising top-notch food offerings and great views of the harbour.

The organisers of the Sydney Barbecue Festival have even taken to Facebook to clear the air and insist that “Mothership Events are not a partner or organisers of this event”. But that hasn’t stopped the sharks who smell the blood in the water.

Namely, News Corp recently ran a story in which they unfairly conflate the Above The Harbour debacle with the Sydney Barbecue Festival, an event — it must be reiterated — they did not organise nor were they partnered with.

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In detailing Mothership’s “other fails”, News Corp rifles through the laundry basket to frame the collapse of Fat As Butter Festival as the direct fault of Mothership Music, who put on the event.

However, as industry insiders and laymen alike know, Fat As Butter collapsed after rapper Flo Rida failed to perform at the festival’s 2011 event. Mothership Music was in fact placed into liquidation as a result of Flo Rida’s unprofessional conduct.

What’s more, Fat As Butter was subsequently replaced by another Mothership event, This That Festival, which not only filled the void FAB left in the Newcastle music scene, but was also a resounding success.

Above The Harbour party organisers strike again“? Don’t believe everything you read.

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