Whether it’s the ever-increasing burden of health and safety legislation, imdenifying local authorities for just about anything that could possibly go wrong, or just the level of competition that’s out there these days, we’re already beginning to see a trickle of cancellations that bear witness to the Challenging environment facing us all.

As NME report this week, Sonisphere has been cancelled in what was to be its fourth year, citing “a very challenging year” as the reason for calling off the event planned for early July.

The organisers haven’t commented as to whether the event will run in 2013, but here’s hoping it will.