More Wow woe

Buried in the Observer's 'Money' letters page on the 26th August was a complaint form a member of the  public who had tried to get a £224 refund from online music shop www.themusicshopiow.com for a drum - to no avail. After investigating, the Observer's  journalist Mark King (no relation to the Level 42 bass man and IOW resident of the same name we presume!) discovered the owner of the site was 'Sigma Piano' which had a shared director with a string of nine failed companies - including the cancelled Wowfest (Wow Festivals Limited) that had been scheduled for an August 17-19 debut on the Isle of Wight this year and was cancelled by organisers after the police called for the Isle of Wight Council to revoke WOWfest's licence after it failed to pay police, council and fire costs in advance. In July the same director registered a new company, Karmaleon Limited, at a Isle of Wight address. Wow Festivals Limited is now facing liquidation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/aug/25/drum-music-shop-website?INTCMP=SRCH and 
http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/wowfest-organisers-pull-the-plug-44703.aspx
and 
http://ventnorblog.com/2012/07/06/wow-festival-ltd-moves-to-liquidation-23-companies-owed-money/