The director of a cancelled dance event which was due to be held in Angus has vowed to “come back stronger” next year.
The Festival of House festival was scheduled to take place last weekend at Panmure Estate near Carnoustie but was cancelled following a row over safety and planning.
The open-air event was expected to see 15,000 revellers watch acts like dance legends Underworld, Rudimental and Leftfield.
Full refunds were given out to those who had purchased tickets.
Councillors, police and the fire brigade had all voiced concerns about safety and the planning of the event.
Craig Blyth, Festival of House director, said that wheels are already in motion to hold the event in 2017.
He said: “We are still working away with next year in mind. We don’t have anything concrete about a venue or anything yet.
“It is very much our intention to have the festival next year. We just have to learn from this year.
“We have got a year of planning under our belts and have learned a lot from the experience, so we are looking to come back stronger for next year.
“We have been working away getting the acts who we had signed up gigs elsewhere.
“They will be playing indoors at various venues and just looking ahead to next year.
“It was important that we did that because we need to think about the future event and make sure we can still get the acts signed up for that.
“We have got to do that if we have any chance of coming back for next year. There will definitely be more to follow on the festival front. We haven’t given up.”
Organisers took the decision at the end of April to cancel the event just hours before a special meeting of Angus Council’s civic licensing committee and Angus Licensing Board was preparing to decide its fate.
Craig said he was “absolutely gutted” to pull the plug on the festival at the 11th hour.
He added: “It was supposed to be last weekend. We could have been in a much different position right now.
“We have just got to regroup and look ahead to next year.”