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On 5/18/2020 at 7:22 AM, Neil said:

Are you really saying that because covid caught you on the hop as it did with everyone else your brain must be a place of only bad decisions...? :rolleyes: 

I said nothing about "bad" businesses. i didn't allude to anything like that at all.

I simply said fewer festivals would (most likely) make those remaining more financially viable via less competition.

I also gave a clear example of how someone might have made a business decision which in normal circumstances wouldn't have been a problem. 

 

Just as logically, a profitable position isn't viable. There is not infinite growth to support forever-profits.

A knife edge is viable. It might not be ideal from the position of greed, that's all.

What you say about bad businesses is true, but that doesn't make all businesses that fail a bad business. One day we'll probably be able to predict the day of a person's death and life insurance and pensions businesses will fail, but it won't be because those businesses have been run badly. ;) 

 

for the bad businesses, yes. But also for some good businesses.

 

the ones who survive will be the ones with the finances to survive.

That only requires access to the necessary finances, which is nothing about good business decisions.

 

"B" is dependant on the financial position of punters and not good business decisions.

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Ok, there is a better way to try and quantify the risk - The Diamond Princess cruise ship.

Over the course of a month of the 3711 people onboard 700 were infected, so 1/5.

Obviously there are a number of reasons why the chances/risk of getting Covid would’ve been higher on the cruise than at Glastonbury.

- It was a month not 5 days

- Older demographic more susceptible to being infected

- More indoor spaces, closed confined spaces rather than being mostly outdoors

- More physical surfaces, door handles, hand rails, tables chairs etc etc

So you could safely say the risk is somewhat lower than 1/5 and somewhat higher than 1/50. I’d hazard a guess that it would be a lot closer to the 1/50 than 1/5, simply because a month is a long time for the virus to be spreading around compared to 5 days.

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Some of this discussion on risk is focusing a bit too much on current levels, obviously at current levels of infection festivals can't go ahead. 

I think others are right that when festivals go ahead it'll be a binary on/off as effective social distancing is impossible. 

It's a question of what level of community spread would be acceptable, if any, to allow it to go ahead. 

If there were say hundreds of new cases per day and people were pre warned that infection control is difficult would it be allowed?

I think someone's said previously that there already are relatively regular outbreaks of illness in wateraid camps, and thats a risk they just manage.

 

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3 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

Some of this discussion on risk is focusing a bit too much on current levels, obviously at current levels of infection festivals can't go ahead. 

I think others are right that when festivals go ahead it'll be a binary on/off as effective social distancing is impossible. 

It's a question of what level of community spread would be acceptable, if any, to allow it to go ahead. 

If there were say hundreds of new cases per day and people were pre warned that infection control is difficult would it be allowed?

I think someone's said previously that there already are relatively regular outbreaks of illness in wateraid camps, and thats a risk they just manage.

 

But are infections high or low at the moment? During the lockdown the ONS said just 0.27% were infected. In theory we’re still in lockdown with some easing, but most people’s fears are that continual easing will send cases up rather than down. If we continue to ease lockdown but case numbers get lower than they are now, then surely it’s problem solved, disaster over and nothing to worry about anyway? 

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25 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

But are infections high or low at the moment? During the lockdown the ONS said just 0.27% were infected. In theory we’re still in lockdown with some easing, but most people’s fears are that continual easing will send cases up rather than down. If we continue to ease lockdown but case numbers get lower than they are now, then surely it’s problem solved, disaster over and nothing to worry about anyway? 

This is how I see it, from my probably uninformed perspective. 

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10 hours ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Ok, there is a better way to try and quantify the risk - The Diamond Princess cruise ship.

Over the course of a month of the 3711 people onboard 700 were infected, so 1/5.

Obviously there are a number of reasons why the chances/risk of getting Covid would’ve been higher on the cruise than at Glastonbury.

- It was a month not 5 days

- Older demographic more susceptible to being infected

- More indoor spaces, closed confined spaces rather than being mostly outdoors

- More physical surfaces, door handles, hand rails, tables chairs etc etc

So you could safely say the risk is somewhat lower than 1/5 and somewhat higher than 1/50. I’d hazard a guess that it would be a lot closer to the 1/50 than 1/5, simply because a month is a long time for the virus to be spreading around compared to 5 days.

Also most meals on that ship were buffet service, which is just asking for trouble.

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11 hours ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

But are infections high or low at the moment? During the lockdown the ONS said just 0.27% were infected. In theory we’re still in lockdown with some easing, but most people’s fears are that continual easing will send cases up rather than down. If we continue to ease lockdown but case numbers get lower than they are now, then surely it’s problem solved, disaster over and nothing to worry about anyway? 

I think that number was towards the tail end of April, it was much higher at the peak. Estimates today so a total of 17% in London and 5% outside have had it. So that's over a roughly 12-16 week range

If case numbers do trend down then it's full steam ahead and I'm going to live in a field next year!

 

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I don’t know if this is even possible or just in the realms of science fiction, but wouldn’t the silver bullet for things like music festivals be an instant, cheap test?

Sure the queues would be horrific, but no different to checking every bag.

To avoid your own personal disappointment it would be good if you could also obtain a test a few days before you go, just to minimise the chances of rocking up and being turned away.

I’d imagine most of us would be self isolating in an underground bunker for at least 7 days before!

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They’ve just spoken to Melvin Benn (head of Festival Republic) on BBC News and he seems to think most outdoor gigs will be okay to go from next spring - with that includes mind coukd it be possible to do any kind of ‘social bubble’ with the people who you are attending the festival with or is that over ambitious?

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On 5/21/2020 at 10:32 AM, funkychick2007 said:

I haven’t looked to much at this thread! Mainly I wanted to be in denial as I had a three year plan for a new career project  based around festivals and entertainment venues and child adult exploitation. Anyone wants to be bored by my ideas please message me it’s more positive that it sounds! 
what it made me realise that as well as the infection factor there are so many other things tht would be effected by not having festivals financially and mentally and physically for so many people! 
 

Is it an on-site creche? That is a service I would 100% use. 

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22 minutes ago, blutarsky said:

Is it an on-site creche? That is a service I would 100% use. 

Its a good thought!!! But would be absolute nightmare to organise! I think looking at the festival from a family perspective is a whole different experience or send the kids on their own holiday with extended family or friends!!! 
My project is more to do with some of the darker sides of festivals and entertainment venues and events and training the staff and making the public aware and what to do if the see it happen! Don’t wont to write to much on here as will will probably bore a lot of people! Festivals do a really good job of keeping people and children safe, this is a concern which is relatively new in society as well! 

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3 hours ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

I don’t know if this is even possible or just in the realms of science fiction, but wouldn’t the silver bullet for things like music festivals be an instant, cheap test?

Sure the queues would be horrific, but no different to checking every bag.

To avoid your own personal disappointment it would be good if you could also obtain a test a few days before you go, just to minimise the chances of rocking up and being turned away.

I’d imagine most of us would be self isolating in an underground bunker for at least 7 days before!

An instant test where you did it at home, Input the result on the app and showed it at the gate alongside your ticket to get in. 

If you had antibodies you could also be allowed in. 

Think people would go one of 2 ways. Either self isolate for a month. Or go out 2 months before and try to get it!

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3 hours ago, Chapple12345 said:

They’ve just spoken to Melvin Benn (head of Festival Republic) on BBC News and he seems to think most outdoor gigs will be okay to go from next spring

I'm not accusing Melvin of telling porkies, but then again he's not going to say anything different to this. It's much like the Eavis "best festival ever".

And I don't really think it's anything more than a the sort of hopeful guess any of us could make, because there's no perfect info so everyone is pissing in the wind.

I'd like to think Melvin is right, but it's ultimately just his personal (and perhaps overly-hopeful) guess.

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4 hours ago, Chapple12345 said:

They’ve just spoken to Melvin Benn (head of Festival Republic) on BBC News and he seems to think most outdoor gigs will be okay to go from next spring - with that includes mind coukd it be possible to do any kind of ‘social bubble’ with the people who you are attending the festival with or is that over ambitious?

I presume we'll get to know before that, if there's still a ban on football and major sports crowds going into 2021 we know we're in trouble.

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2 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

An instant test where you did it at home, Input the result on the app and showed it at the gate alongside your ticket to get in. 

If you had antibodies you could also be allowed in. 

Think people would go one of 2 ways. Either self isolate for a month. Or go out 2 months before and try to get it!

That could work...or if you haven't had the virus but have a ticket, sign a waiver for any liability on the part of the festival if you do go and get sick. That might also make the festival more insurable too.

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The issue is that we simply don't know what will happen over the relatively short term. It's likely that most of us will get exposed at some point and generate some form of immunity. How long that will last is not clear. 

I've no doubts that festivals will reopen sometime but when - who knows. We'll get more info as lockdowns reopen and subsequent patterns of infection. London will be a good test. It'll give us an idea of how suppressed the virus will be with a significant minority  having been infected.  

I'll have my fingers tightly crossed for next year! Need tickets first though!

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Rapid test would help but there are always false positives and negatives! Doubt it's practical on the door. Maybe if antibody testing is rolled out and it's shown that you have immunity - that could work. 

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1 minute ago, semmtexx said:

The issue is that we simply don't know what will happen over the relatively short term. It's likely that most of us will get exposed at some point and generate some form of immunity. How long that will last is not clear. 

I've no doubts that festivals will reopen sometime but when - who knows. We'll get more info as lockdowns reopen and subsequent patterns of infection. London will be a good test. It'll give us an idea of how suppressed the virus will be with a significant minority  having been infected.  
 

I'll have my fingers tightly crossed for next year! Need tickets first though!

i think the tickets is more likely than the festival at this stage ... was it 2009 that the festival last struggled to sell out ....  did that not coincide with last recession ? or have I got years wrong ? I know other factors were at play to ...

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4 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

i think the tickets is more likely than the festival at this stage ... was it 2009 that the festival last struggled to sell out ....  did that not coincide with last recession ? or have I got years wrong ? I know other factors were at play to ...

I think quite a lot of people will be put off and hand back tickets. I don't want to benefit from others fear but I'll certainly try for tickets. 

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Just now, semmtexx said:

I think quite a lot of people will be put off and hand back tickets. I don't want to benefit from others fear but I'll certainly try for tickets. 

of course :) me neither ... will be interesting to see how many of the resale team will be trying still although that won't be an accurate reflection as we tend to be more on a hardcore scale of festival goers :) 

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