Future of festivals...
I listened to most of (shonky internet so missed bits) a quite interesting online Zoom type discussion by a few movers and shakers in the UK and European festival scene this afternoon. Just wish Chris Tofu had been involved as well.
Sorry if it has already been posted.
elsewhere. Hope the link works. Everything below is copied and pasted.
he 2020 festival summer will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
With much of the season already cancelled, and the rest awaiting the
Vaccine by October?
30 Million doses?
You wont be getting a vaccine, if ever, until earliest around autumn 2021, taking into account both testing and production.
If that is what you are relying on, such events are still pretty shaky for next year as well.
We're only in the early foothills of this, with no guarantee we'll be able to climb the mountain.
Current planning projecting measures until 2022 and even they are open ended.