The news that Disconnect Festival, which had its inaugural event back in December, is already planning its 2016 instalment was no doubt cause for celebration for the punters that gave glowing reviews to the recently christened Perth festival.

But it was quite the slap in the face to the bands and crew who still haven’t been paid for working on last year’s event. Scores of disgruntled musos and staffers are now taking to Disconnect’s Facebook page to air their dissatisfaction.

As ABC News reports, organisers of the three-day event, which featured performances from Flight Facilities, Meg Mac, Father John Misty, and more, recently took to Facebook with a survey to help them improve their event for their second instalment this year.

“It [the survey] was just the match that started the fire,” a festival site coordinator, who wished to remain anonymous, told the ABC. Angry crew members have been lambasting the festival across their social media channels.

“You lot have some nerve after not paying the performers and artists from last year. I’m posting everywhere to ensure people boycott you. You should be ashamed, Disconnect Festival,” wrote one angry commenter.

Bands and artists allege emails sent to Spring Fever Promotions, the organisers of the festival, have been ignored and some commenters on the Facebook page are alleging that organisers have been deleting angry comments left on the festival’s posts.

Comments left on the Disconnect Festival Facebook page

“Just so many people had been working on that festival day in and day out, and they are still out of pocket which is just crazy,” Timothy Nelson, frontman of local outfit Timothy Nelson & The Infidels, told ABC News.

“It’s a lot bigger than just my band not getting a few hundred bucks, a lot of people have not been paid. Bands were relying on that money.” Nelson said that as far as he knows, none of the local acts on the lineup, nor service providers or suppliers had been paid.

“Common sense said we should keep quiet until we got legal advice,” supplier Lee Reader told ABC. “But then when we saw they had planned a 2016 event, after no-one getting replies for four months, no apology from promoters — we had enough.”

After the response to the survey post, artists and crew members reportedly received an email from Spring Fever chief Chris Knight, in which he insisted the organisation is “working very hard to get everybody paid” blaming the delay on funding that fell through “at the last minute”.

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“We are committed to getting everybody paid and getting the festival back on track,” Mr Knight continued. “We are looking at funding options with the bank and will at the worst case get everybody paid in the next 4 weeks.”

Another Perth muso, Angus Dawson, said crowd numbers did not meet the expectations of promoters, who booked an ambitious lineup of international acts and big-time local acts. Nelson agreed the festival had a lower than expected turnout.

“There’s so much money at stake… and the event had low attendance,” he told ABC News. “[Festivals] are a huge gamble, promoters not only put themselves at stake, but all those working for them. If you put on a festival you need to be able to accept that you have to pay for everyone that works for it.”

Tone Deaf would like to note that the comments in the screenshot above are no longer appearing on the official Disconnect Facebook page.