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Plus it’s on a week day. No one is booking the day off work for this.

I’m not sure what’s worse here. The fact that we’ve got the exact same headliner and sub as last year, or the fact that 60% of all community festivals in history have been headlined by the same band. Lazy is the understatement of the year.

He won’t be at BST, not because he’s not big enough for Hyde park (he is) but because BST is for acts that are much older.

He won’t be doing BST. If there’s a big London gig it’ll be APE or Community.

Yungblud could get a prominent slot but he won’t be headlining. In the old days he’d be a perfect R1 headliner against a rock act headlining the MS

39 acts on the two main stages over the weekend this year compared to 61 between the main and R1 in 2019. Not to mention that merging the FR stage and the pit has taken another 30ish acts off the bill over the weekend. The new format is nothing but a cost saving measure.

In terms of American rock acts, are any of RHCP, PATD, Kings of Leon or any of the hella mega bands likely to be in play?

To be fair, Rodrigo was 3rd down on the other stage at Glastonbury and Fender subbed the pyramid. He also played an arena tour in spring whilst Olivia was in academies. What I would say is that Rodrigo is ascending whereas Sam is probably already at his peak. Wouldn’t shock me at all if both are MSW headliners next year but if they are on the same day, Fender will get a more prestigious slot.

Interestingly I would have assumed that the former group are largely on all weekend camping tickets and the latter mainly stick to day tickets but I got the train from Oxford on Saturday and it was absolutely rammed with teenagers.

2023 guesses: Friday: George Ezra/Dua Lipa Saturday: Paramore/Twenty One Pilots Sunday: Sam Fender/MCR

Rumours going around that fake SAGE are about to disband.

Getting rid of testing is absolutely the correct decision.

Not sure this argument really applies anymore. England first removed face nappies almost 7 months ago (albeit they did get reinstated for a couple of months within that). Scotland has NEVER removed them.

It’s not the job of the JCVI to make decisions in order to make it easier for international travel. The 2 things for them to consider: 1. Does the evidence show that the protection offered against covid outweighs the risk of severe side effects that the vaccine occasionally causes? (bearing in mind the incredibly low risk kids are at from covid) 2. If yes, does it do so significantly enough to indicate that the benefit is strong enough to justify the enormous costs of a widespread vaccination programme. If the first answer is No, don’t vaccinate kids. If Yes/Yes, vaccinate kids. If it’s Yes/No you have a more difficult situation. In this case I’d say don’t bother with an NHS sponsored vaccination programme but allow parents to purchase it privately for travel like you would with any other travel jabs.

Happy freedom day 2.0. May your face nappies be binned and your vaccine passports be unused.