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...do we think any festivals or any live music will go ahead this year?
And would you attend if they did?
Hoping they'll be able to put my local one at the end of July.
Well I'm shocked
Don't think anyone is shocked Glastonbury is cancelled as the forward planning needed is on a massive scale. I can't see any other big ones running either.
But there are a lot of smaller ones that could possibly be set up in a short timescale.
Blimey! I never saw that coming! Life comes at you fast, eh?
Shall we have bets on which event organisers are going to remain the most delusional for the longest? The International Olympic Committee seem like frontrunners at the moment.
Not only insisting that an event that will draw athletes from every country on the globe together, all in one place, is still going to go ahead, but that there will be crowds in attendance to watch it.
Yeah, right
Ha yeah the IOC seems to properly have their heads buried.
On the subject of live music.....I can't see much happening this year. Gutted. 15 years building my mediocre little career, but I was quite proud of it and it's all I'd wanted to do since I was 10. I just hope that there's something tangible left to go back to in 2022/23.
Aren't the IOC also saying that Covid testing won't be necessary?
I just hope that there’s something tangible left to go back to in 2022/23.
I'm sure there will be - the pent-up demand for live music must be huge. And if some venues have sadly closed it won't take long for others to emerge.
I hope that some new ones open....it's becoming clear that 2021 will be a total wipeout gigwise. I fear that venues that were clinging on and weathering 2020 will just throw in the towel. It's going to be a quarter of the way into 2022 at the earliest before anything substantial can go ahead imo.
this. I think the UK was starting to get "festival fatigue" as there were too many but I think that now the demand will be massive and they'll be a boom, whether it's existing events or startupsI’m sure there will be – the pent-up demand for live music must be huge. And if some venues have sadly closed it won’t take long for others to emerge.
There's a very small gig at the start of July in Cornwall I really hope goes ahead. It's not outside the realms of possibility and I'll go if it does happen. The 5000 people festival at the end of July I have tickets for I can't see going ahead though. Right now I'd be happy watching a local band in a pub garden if it meant watching live music.
To be excpected I suppose.
I'm more of the age group where I find weird blokes playing Ukes and curious planks of wood more interetsting.
'Glasto' got shit decades ago as it is too commercial, no skin off my nose.
Right now I’d be happy watching a local band in a pub garden if it meant watching live music.
The idea of that in the sunshine, with a few mates and a pint in your hand sounds like some magical kind of perfection
Is this not a reflection of more happening in holiday's, corporate exhibitions etc through 2021? Let's go local and small, instead of international and huge.
An opportunity perhaps for many.
Had one cancelled for next month - no surprise, suspect all the others in the next 4-5 months will also be cancelled. I hope they're rearranged rather than canned altogether.
Just hoping some go ahead. Our son is a sound engineer and at the beginning of 2020 had a full diary of work.planned for the year....all that disappeared of course. Now he is labouring to get by.
Apart from festivals I hope some tours go ahead as well. But who knows?
…do we think any festivals or any live music will go ahead this year?
And would you attend if they did?
Hoping they’ll be able to put my local one at the end of July.
It's really sad Glastonbury is cancelled, partly for the sake of people who love to go and partly it's one of the early indicators that it's not all "going to be over soon".
That said, Glastonbury is cancelled because at this moment in time, they cannot guarantee 250k people can attend a mass event in 6 months time, they'd said that the end of Jan was their deadline to lets the acts, suppliers, staff etc know, so they've done well to drag it out for 3 weeks.
I'd guess the problem is, no one really knows what's the plan when/if the Healthcare Crisis is over, there's no way people in the average age group for Glastonbury are all going to be vaccinated by then, will the government/public be happy for everyone under to 50 to "take their chances" with Covid as they see fit in the summer, and if so, are Glastonbury liable if someone catches it on-site and falls very ill?
New Zealand held a mass music event at the weekend, 20k people, they waited until they hadn't had a single recorded infection in the community in weeks, maybe months. The UK won't be there in June.
The idea of that in the sunshine, with a few mates and a pint in your hand sounds like some magical kind of perfection
Good grief, that simple comment made me all emotional. I really miss all of those things.
Got tickets for Greenman in August and Manchester Psych Fest in September, both carried over from last year.
I'm not particularly optimistic about GM, but it is two months later than Glasto so it all depends on how well the vaccine rollout goes over the next month I guess, at the moment I'm crossing my fingers for September, it's a smaller festival with much less in the way of logistics, no camping and all that jazz, so perhaps they can hold out longer before they are forced to cancel again.
Really hope Nozstock (my local) goes ahead this year. For them, the local community and all the festival goers, it's a great event.
Is there going to be a Mexican stand off though? Whichever festival/event can hold off the longest and and actually go ahead will have a massive year, as the pent up desire to get to one of these things must be well beyond breaking point already.
Most of them sold out last year, so there won't be many tickets available assuming most people kept hold of them, so conversely a last minute hastily arranged festival probably with a bunch of shite cover acts will probably do really well
Suede in April
Killers in June
New Order in October
New Order perhaps 🤔
I'm not holding out much hope of being able to use my tickets to the Hella Mega Tour in June after it was postponed last year. Just have to wait for Ticketmaster to tell me it's off again
It’s really sad Glastonbury is cancelled, partly for the sake of people who love to go and partly it’s one of the early indicators that it’s not all “going to be over soon”.
It'd not sad, Glastonbury has become a satire of it's self, and should be abolished.
Good riddance.
…do we think any festivals or any live music will go ahead this year?
Nope.
And would you attend if they did?
Nope, they'd be perfect super spreader opportunities until vaccination has been completed... whenever that might be.
Hoping they’ll be able to put my local one at the end of July.
There's no harm in hoping, just temper that hope with a little realism...
It’d not sad, Glastonbury has become a satire of it’s self, and should be abolished.
Good riddance.
What a strange thing to say ha ha.
What a strange thing to say ha ha.
He has said a similarly negative thing in two posts now in a thread of 20 posts.
Keep posting your strong arguments Mattyfez and you might convince all 170k+ people who wanted to go to cancel their tickets.
Had Kendal Calling tickets rolled over from last year to this July, just had a look and so far its still on this year but to be honest i'm not holding out much hope, i think mass gatherings like festivals will be the last things back on the social menu....Had my Foals tickets rolled over too for May in Edinburgh and also cant see that happening.
It’d not sad, Glastonbury has become a satire of it’s self, and should be abolished.
Good riddance.
Hey, you sound like fun to be with!
He has said a similarly negative thing in two posts now in a thread of 20 posts.
Keep posting your strong arguments Mattyfez and you might convince all 170k+ people who wanted to go to cancel their tickets.
Yeh i'd love to pay loads of money to go to a swampy field to watch kanye west. On a video screen?
hahaha!
I love music, dont't get me wrong, but Glastonbury is a very poor example.
I bought festival tickets for Sep 21 here in Spain, funnily enough only me out of everyone I have told thinks it may go head.
Anyway, day 1 of ticket offering they were half price and fully refundable if it cannot go ahead.
It's not just gigs and festivals that suffer,loads of local spending does not happen.
Very sad for everyone involved.
Is not surprised
Is disappoint
I bought festival tickets for Sep 21 here in Spain, funnily enough only me out of everyone I have told thinks it may go head.
Dream beach by any chance? I doubt it will go ahead.
The idea of that in the sunshine, with a few mates and a pint in your hand sounds like some magical kind of perfection
Good grief, that simple comment made me all emotional. I really miss all of those things.
very much this. it also feels like a lifetime ago that those things happened all together!
Yeh i’d love to pay loads of money to go to a swampy field to watch kanye west. On a video screen?
Yeah because at the precise moment Kanye comes on stage there is literally nothing else happening at Glastonbury and it's the law that you have to watch him.
Yeh i’d love to pay loads of money to go to a swampy field to watch kanye west. On a video screen?
hahaha
Do you think it's an event meant to be tailored just for you?
I haven't been in 20 years, sometimes when it's on TV I think I'd like to go again, but really I'd like to be 20 again. I think my ideal Glastonbury experience these days would be to watch it on a huge projector screen in my garden with my friends, and then the last act leaves the stage, finish my drink and go to my nice warm bed.
it's not really a decent festival is what i'm saying. I'd be at risk of being called a hipster ten years ago, now it's just a circle jerk
Had ticket for neighbourhood Weekender rolled over from last year. Think it's in May. Not holding out for that.
On a similar note, got my ardrock ticket rolled over from 2 years ago. I wonder if that will run in a different format this year, still ride but no festival?
Stayed at the yha last year on me lonesome in a camping pod as I already had it booked. Did 3 days riding around, it was actually brilliant!
I dont think there will be any gathering of more than a few hundred people happening before September, except in a controlled way. like what they did a few months ago at football gorunds.
When pubs do open, I think it'll have to be something like during last Summer in Scotland, table service only, sit with your 'bubble' only, and strict closing of 10pm.
We've got around £200 in concert tickets here for 3 bands, for last year, rearranged for this year, I can't see any of them happening before October.
From Radio 4 at 1pm: - Calls for Pub/bar/restaurants to stay shut until May:
"Bars and restaurants should not open before May, a scientist who sits on a sub-group of Sage (the government's scientific advisory committee) suggests.
Dr Marc Baguelin, from Imperial College London, says reopening hospitality businesses too early could lead to a "bump" in Covid cases.
"We looked at the partial reopening and the increase in the R number, it will generate an increase in the R number, the extent of which we don't know really," he tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme."
I also had Hella Mega tickets but no chance it's happening this summer imo.
Yeh i’d love to pay loads of money to go to a swampy field to watch kanye west. On a video screen?
I have a feeling that might not be the only option.
I prefer smaller festivals just because they tend to be friendlier and I don't have to walk as far. 🙂
I do feel bad for touring musicians, with Brexit as well. Only going to cement the fact that only the comfortably off will be able to afford to be musicians in future.
Imagine thinking glastonbury is a "poor example of music". Maybe if you only watch it on TV.
From Radio 4 at 1pm: – Calls for Pub/bar/restaurants to stay shut until May:
“Bars and restaurants should not open before May, a scientist who sits on a sub-group of Sage (the government’s scientific advisory committee) suggests.
Dr Marc Baguelin, from Imperial College London, says reopening hospitality businesses too early could lead to a “bump” in Covid cases.“We looked at the partial reopening and the increase in the R number, it will generate an increase in the R number, the extent of which we don’t know really,” he tells BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme.”
I guess that's the big 'what if' isn't it.
If things with the vaccine go as well as well as the Government say is should, by mid-feb the 4 highest risk categories will have a least some protection, supposedly enough to reduce the chances of death or hospitalisation by 90% (which is different to not getting covid at all).
Based on 2m doses a week, everyone 65 and older and people with underlaying health problems will be vaccinated early march.
The roll out will slow then, as the people who got the first dose will be due their second, but if everyone over 65 or with underlaying health issues has 90% protection (which is a BIG if) then Hospital admissions and deaths will tiny compared to now, easily manageable by the NHS and it won't be a healthcare problem, just another one of the things than can make you ill.
If few people are dying, so few it's akin to the other coronaviruses and flu etc, will they care about the R rate? Assuming it cannot be eradicated now, Would it be more beneficial for us all to accept it's part of life forever and allow our bodies to get used to it? I don't know that's for sure.
Well I've just requested a refund of my tickets for Hella Mega. Even if it goes ahead I don't think I'd be comfortable standing on the pitch in that size crowd. Should have my money back in 5 days. Will use it to book a camping trip for me and my daughter instead
mattyfez
Free MemberYeh i’d love to pay loads of money to go to a swampy field to watch kanye west. On a video screen?
hahaha!
Dude, of all the festivals to throw that accusation at Glastonbury is just about the daftest, it has more going on at any given time than probably any 2 or 3 of the other major festivals combined. It's not really my cup of tea but tbf I think you can only manage this sort of criticism by just not really understanding the event.
If few people are dying,
Its not the death rate that will be important, it will be the level of hospital admission, if that drops and stays down then maybe things will unlock.
I wasn't really going into whether Glastonbury was a good festival or not! 🙂
I've never been and have no plans to go.
For me I'd feel better at my local festival (15-20k people) than my usual haunt which is Rock City. At least at smaller festivals you can stand on the fringes and still get good views of bands.
Being squashing into a 2500 capacity small venue may have to wait a while.