For such a lavish affair, the Festival of Fortescue at the weekend did spare one expense.
, organisers of the iron ore company’s 20-year birthday bash considered havingplay the Pilbara , and went so far as to ask British rockers Coldplay how much it would cost to have them headline.The answer was no less than $10 million. Whatever Barnes charges, it’s less than that.
Though maybe Coldplay couldn’t imagine anything worse than playing an iron ore company’s dusty birthday and gave Fortescue their “go away” price.Working Class Man, surely, whose blue-blooded forebears have been prominent West Australian pastoralists and politicians for the better part of 150 years.
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