Wings Of Desire travel hours with 11-week-old baby to play festival stage that didn’t exist: “We do not appreciate being gaslit”

Wings of Desire have decried the way the music industry treats artists after travelling hours with their baby to play a music festival, only to learn the stage they were booked to play didn’t exist. READ MORE: “Pressure cooker” impact of touring on mental health “needs addressing” – but help is at hand Husband and wife duo James Taylor and Chloe Little were due on stage at Valley Fest last Friday (July 31), but ended up having to go home without playing, an experience they likened to “going to an airport, through security and waiting three hours for a non-existent flight”. In a lengthy post shared on social media, they told fans they’d been booked to play the festival’s Yard Stage back in February. After travelling with their 11-month old in tow, they said they finally arrived at the “infamous not-on-the-site-map stage” they were booked on, only to find it was hosting a “PowerPoint presentation about property development”. “The curator of the stage confirms he hadn’t booked us,” they wrote, “and the line-up had been in place for months”. They were left to wander around, with their calls to the bookers going unanswered, after which it was: “Back to the car, pack up the stuff, nappy ...