…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.