2021 chances

[Edibles]

What’s the chance of it being on next year. Someone give us some good news, please 

[eFestivals]

Pretty decent, I reckon.

There should be a vaccine from around the end of the year, and my guess is that things will return to normal-ish from around spring.

[Chrisp1986]

See this is effectively what When will this shit end was started for, but someone took it off on a tangent and here we are! 50 50 here and I am normally pessimistic...

[zahidf]

57 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

Pretty decent, I reckon.

There should be a vaccine from around the end of the year, and my guess is that things will return to normal-ish from around spring.

Yup. I think football will eb back to normal by spring for example as well

[DareToDibble]

All hinges on the vaccine. If it's good to go around the end of the year as we keep hearing then I reckon we're good to go. If it gets delayed for any reason then I reckon it's time to start panicking about the festival.

[Gilb]

100%

[jannybruck]

Decent. But I'd try not to place too much emphasis on the vaccine. The key is getting rapid tests sorted in combination with that. Outdoor events in June/July/August I am confident will be going ahead.

[Gilgamesh69]

1 hour ago, eFestivals said:

 

There should be a vaccine from around the end of the year

Really? I thought the predictions were more like next spring?

[Edibles]

Reading Festival is on my doorstep and Melvin is adamant it’s going ahead next year, but seeing 150k people around the town, at this moment in time I just can’t see it. Glastonbury is 2 months before that. Limited capacity possibly 

[morph100]

6 minutes ago, Edibles said:

Reading Festival is on my doorstep and Melvin is adamant it’s going ahead next year, but seeing 150k people around the town, at this moment in time I just can’t see it. Glastonbury is 2 months before that. Limited capacity possibly 

Can’t reduce the capacity really when they’ve already sold all the tickets

[Edibles]

37 minutes ago, morph100 said:

Can’t reduce the capacity really when they’ve already sold all the tickets

If they said reduced capacity, ballot for everyone who has tickets, whoever is unsuccessful automatically gets a ticket for 2022? Would you?  

[Steveb72]

Saw a post on Facebook that people with tickets for under 12’s are getting asked to pay a £50 deposit if they are 13 next year to secure their ticket.  So they must be confident of it going ahead.

[Euphoricape]

1 hour ago, Edibles said:

If they said reduced capacity, ballot for everyone who has tickets, whoever is unsuccessful automatically gets a ticket for 2022? Would you?  

Id be happy with that. Be amazing to be at a reduced capacity festival with all the extra space and less queues between stages.

[Spindles]

1 hour ago, Edibles said:

If they said reduced capacity, ballot for everyone who has tickets, whoever is unsuccessful automatically gets a ticket for 2022? Would you?  

I would.  That would give us 2 festivals with more space and fewer people than the 90s.  I wouldn't mind if there was less on the bill either, forget about the other stage and silver hayes for a couple of years, move some of the Eastern side stages and attractions into that space and make the SE corner WAY more spacious.

[dotdash79]

Well they have been working on the spike bar this week. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, dotdash79 said:

Well they have been working on the spike bar this week. 

That’s taking a while ... it’s going to be longer than the pier at this rate  

[Guest]

I think there’s a very good chance it goes ahead. In the 6 months alone testing has been vastly improved and we have 2 treatments. Give it another 6 months we'll have gone through the Winter, will have even more testing capacity and likely quick testing results too. A vaccine or more treatments even that can be given to higher risk people. Plus will there be an appetite in Government and the country for restrictions on events next summer, I'm not so sure there would be.

Therefore I would there's a good chance the festival goes ahead if you can prove before you are COVID free, log it via the NHS app and your registration. It's not 100% full proof but nothing is.

[dotdash79]

12 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

That’s taking a while ... it’s going to be longer than the pier at this rate  

It’s looking good, also looks like it’s going to be wheel chair accessible as well. 

[Chapple12345]

9 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

I think there’s a very good chance it goes ahead. In the 6 months alone testing has been vastly improved and we have 2 treatments. Give it another 6 months we'll have gone through the Winter, will have even more testing capacity and likely quick testing results too. A vaccine or more treatments even that can be given to higher risk people. Plus will there be an appetite in Government and the country for restrictions on events next summer, I'm not so sure there would be.

Therefore I would there's a good chance the festival goes ahead if you can prove before you are COVID free, log it via the NHS app and your registration. It's not 100% full proof but nothing is.

I agree with all of this, I think there may have to be a few extra mitigations e.g. extra hygiene measures and facial coverings in crowded areas, but I see Glasto and a full festival season happening within some capacity 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Chapple12345 said:

I agree with all of this, I think there may have to be a few extra mitigations e.g. extra hygiene measures and facial coverings in crowded areas, but I see Glasto and a full festival season happening within some capacity 

Good points about the additional hygiene, especially with more hand sanitiser stations around, although I'm not quite sure about face coverings only because people will need to take them on and off to drink etc.

[Chapple12345]

Just now, Ozanne said:

Good points about the additional hygiene, especially with more hand sanitiser stations around, although I'm not quite sure about face coverings only because people will need to take them on and off to drink etc.

That was my one thought, add to that the majority of main stages being outdoors where there's far less transmission, I'm sure there would be other greater measures in place to keep things more hygienic and safe

I can see a lot of events having a multiple scenario plan to give then the best chance of going ahead, for example: 

Scenario 1 - full festival happens as normal

Scenario 2 - festival happens with extra mitigations 

Scenario 3 - festival happens at limited capacity (using  ballot schemes as mentioned above) 

Hopefully we won't need to use these scenarios and the festival can happen in a new normal way but after having the year off you'd hope festivals are considering other ways of going ahead rather than cancelling 2 years in a row 

[Guest]

Just now, Chapple12345 said:

That was my one thought, add to that the majority of main stages being outdoors where there's far less transmission, I'm sure there would be other greater measures in place to keep things more hygienic and safe

I can see a lot of events having a multiple scenario plan to give then the best chance of going ahead, for example: 

Scenario 1 - full festival happens as normal

Scenario 2 - festival happens with extra mitigations 

Scenario 3 - festival happens at limited capacity (using  ballot schemes as mentioned above) 

Hopefully we won't need to use these scenarios and the festival can happen in a new normal way but after having the year off you'd hope festivals are considering other ways of going ahead rather than cancelling 2 years in a row 

We'd like to use scenario 1 wouldn't we!? 😛

You are right though, that's pretty much how I see it going. The infrastructure with the registration would be a big benefit to them at this stage as they currently know exactly who is going. If they can link a test result to that then in theory that should give them a good way of pressing ahead. 

[Chapple12345]

8 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

We'd like to use scenario 1 wouldn't we!? 😛

You are right though, that's pretty much how I see it going. The infrastructure with the registration would be a big benefit to them at this stage as they currently know exactly who is going. If they can link a test result to that then in theory that should give them a good way of pressing ahead. 

Indeed we would! I'd much rather have it happen in some capacity than not at all (as would organisers!) so I would see them utilising a cascade system of plans instead of having to cancel again, they've had more than enough time to plan for it so I hope they've used their time wisely 

[Avalon_Fields]

Heartening to see a mainly positive outlook! 

[Chrisp1986]

Why is everyone being positive? This is eFestivals.