Artists are having to bump up the guest list to fill venues as growing numbers of ticket-holders drop out

Bands and DJs are resorting to inviting huge guest lists to their gigs in order to boost numbers because as many as four in 10 ticket holders are not turning up.

When the government announced the roadmap out of lockdown in February, many shows sold out within hours, and the events that happened straight after things opened up were “bananas”, as one promoter described them.

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