Just two days after this year’s Rockathon Festival, Tickets.ie, the platform where you bought and paid for your tickets, collapsed and we did not receive the €165,000 in ticket sales we were owed.

This means the musical artists, PA hire company, stage managers, security, stage hire company, drivers, riggers, administrators, designers, box office crew, medical crew, cleaners, on-site staff and the venue itself, Fairyhouse Racecourse, cannot be paid.

This GoFundMe, along with other fundraisers we are planning, will help to claw back some of this money to pay musicians, crew and staff.

We are devastated by the situation we have been forced into.

Rockathon has always been about the people, the music and the community, your community. We created Rockathon more than ten years ago for people who love rock music as much as we do and we hope we have made as many special memories for you as you have made for us.

That is why we are fighting to save Rockathon.

We are fighting for the artists, the crew, the volunteers, the traders and every person who works tirelessly behind the scenes to make Rockathon possible. We are fighting for everyone who has stood in front of our stages, shared a song,

made a friend or created a memory with us.

We are fighting to save our festival.

We are fighting to save your festival.

All we ask is that you keep supporting us and keep believing.

Please share your photos, videos and memories, tell people why Rockathon matters and keep watching for updates. We believe Rockathon belongs to all of us

—and it deserves to survive.

Together, we can keep Rockathon alive.