THE Big Chill Festival 2012 has been cancelled.

Organisers of the event, which is held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire, said in a statement that they could not book the acts they wanted.

A timing clash with the 2012 Olympics was also a factor, said Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic.

Here is his statement in full:

“It is with a considerable amount of regret that I have decided not to go ahead with The Big Chill in 2012.

"I looked long and hard late last year at moving the date so it didn’t clash with the Olympics but the mix of the festival fans desire to keep the date and an inability to find an alternative date that works I plumped for maintaining the existing weekend. "Sadly, the artist availability and confirmations we were achieving led me to conclude that I couldn’t risk going ahead with the event as an outdoor event this year.

"Efforts are being made to look to bring a smaller event indoors this year with the anticipation of Big Chill being back outdoors in 2013.”

Last year the Big Chill Festival featured performances by a host of stars including Jessie J, Kanye West and the Chemical Brothers.

The Big Chill Festival 2011 in pictures