Premium Content Subscriber only It is now more than a fortnight since the first post-coronavirus Australian music festival, Bluesfest 2021, was set to kick off. For those on the ground, the impact of the shock cancellation of the 32nd year celebration is still ongoing. The Bluesfest team recently broke down how much the festival fallout cost them: 2500 WORKERS 140+ trucks and flat-beds, 80+ semi-trailers, 72 lighting towers, 42 generators all went into building the Byron Events Farm site that never got used. 19,500 CHAIRS The chairs were trucked in and laid out, then repacked and trucked out before the festival could even start. 500 LANTERNS 10km of wiring, all strung by hand, were never used.