Will the 2021 festival go ahead?

[xxialac]

I've had a brilliant idea (if I say so myself) of how it can go ahead. Everyone who comes gets tested in the runup and agrees to use the App and be tracked in the subsequent weeks.

Glastonbury is no longer a dangerous superspreading event. No.

Rather, it's now a pioneering scientific study to better understand the spread of the disease!

[Brave Sir Robin]

6 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Don't use the word 'superspreader' when talking about festivals McCartney FFS!

Yeah GFL will have been delighted with his using that term in connection with them. Thanks, headliner.

[henry bear]

1 minute ago, dentalplan said:

Time to start the 'Will the 2022 festival go ahead?' poll/thread.

And ‘Acts touring around Glastonbury 2022’.  My money’s on the same acts touring June 2020 and 2021

[fatyeti24]

Super Spreader's Lonely Hearts Club Band

[Joshuwarr]

I do think people are losing the plot a little bit. What Paul McCartney says isn't hugely relevant unless he has been directly informed the festival is not happening.

What we really need to worry about is whether:

- Can we ramp up vaccination rollout in the next few weeks/months

- Will there be a shift in Government stance on support for the sector and larger festivals

- Just how bad all the mixing at Christmas will be

- Will the Government act fast in January and enforce a proper lockdown (closer to the one in March vs the one in November, with the former helping to reduce rates)

 

I am sure there are other factors which other well informed people may have mentioned but I really don't care much for what Macca is saying and we just need to hold tight 😬

Edited December 18, 2020 by Joshuwarr

[eFestivals]

7 minutes ago, Joshuwarr said:

What Paul McCartney says isn't hugely relevant unless he has been directly informed the festival is not happening.

I agree.

He might well have been told that things don't look hopeful, although we also know that from Emily's interview from the other day.

[Homersexual]

Is there something written in the legal terms that means that Glastonbury has to be on the last weekend in June, or could they consider moving it to later on in the year? Hopefully we’ll have seen off the virus come September...

[xxialac]

I'm almost exclusively down based on yesterday's numbers though for McCartney to come out and say it's cancelled didn't help.

The government haven't suppressed the numbers with their measures.

It's all on them.

[xxialac]

1 minute ago, Homersexual said:

Is there something written in the legal terms that means that Glastonbury has to be on the last weekend in June, or could they consider moving it to later on in the year? Hopefully we’ll have seen off the virus come September...

I suspect they'll do an event but on a far smaller scale at the end of the Summer.

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, xxialac said:

I suspect they'll do an event but on a far smaller scale at the end of the Summer.

Or lots of smaller ones throughout the summer is my shout 

[eFestivals]

2 minutes ago, Homersexual said:

Is there something written in the legal terms that means that Glastonbury has to be on the last weekend in June, or could they consider moving it to later on in the year? Hopefully we’ll have seen off the virus come September...

the licence allows as many festivals at any time of year as the Eavii might want.

However, there's a strong expectation from the council that there won't be more than one a year, and with a year off now and then.

So in theory they could move the dates without any difficulties as far as the licence is concerned. 

There might be big difficulties with land availability, as well as suppliers and staff.

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

21 minutes ago, Joshuwarr said:

I do think people are losing the plot a little bit. What Paul McCartney says isn't hugely relevant unless he has been directly informed the festival is not happening.

What we really need to worry about is whether:

- Can we ramp up vaccination rollout in the next few weeks/months

- Will there be a shift in Government stance on support for the sector and larger festivals

- Just how bad all the mixing at Christmas will be

- Will the Government act fast in January and enforce a proper lockdown (closer to the one in March vs the one in November, with the former helping to reduce rates)

 

I am sure there are other factors which other well informed people may have mentioned but I really don't care much for what Macca is saying and we just need to hold tight 😬

Precisely this.

As it stands the Oxford vaccine hasn’t been approved, however likely or imminent it is, the reality is it hasn’t been, so nobody can make any decisions and give any promises based on something that isn’t yet available.

As it stands Macca is right, as it stands it would be pretty impossible for the festival to go ahead, and that’s even parking to one side the possibility of a testing programme that enables it vaccines or no vaccines.

As and when the Oxford vaccine gets approved the landscape completely changes, we’ll still need to see what impact it has, but it needs to be approved first and it hasn’t, yet.

A lot of people rightly view the festival being on until its officially cancelled, but I think it’s more the opposite, at the moment it can’t happen, but that could very easily change.

Edited December 18, 2020 by Deaf Nobby Burton

[eFestivals]

22 minutes ago, Joshuwarr said:

- Just how bad all the mixing at Christmas will be

 

[xxialac]

Admittedly his words are not completely meaningless as he did say (and verbatim):

"I mean I think they've cancelled Glastonbury for '21 haven't they"

That is very different to saying "I don't think Glastonbury is likely to go ahead"

[Barney McGrew]

I'm hoping for an awesome surprise rather than a hideous let down... pint half or pint half empty?

Edited December 18, 2020 by Barney McGrew

[zahidf]

2 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Admittedly his words are not completely meaningless as he did say (and verbatim):

"I mean I think they've cancelled Glastonbury for '21 haven't they"

That is very different to saying "I don't think Glastonbury is likely to go ahead"

Maybe he assumed that based on the fact he isnt booked yet?

[xxialac]

1 minute ago, zahidf said:

Maybe he assumed that based on the fact he isnt booked yet?

Yes, maybe. Or maybe his agent had told him the whole thing was off and he forgot not to keep it schtum hence the backtracking.

Certainly it could mean something negative and it doesn't mean something positive!

[fatyeti24]

2 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Maybe he assumed that based on the fact he isnt booked yet?

"It's not cancelled Paul, they just don't need you this year"

[xxialac]

Just now, fatyeti24 said:

"It's not cancelled Paul, they just don't need you this year"

The leftie woke kids have literally cancelled the boomers.

[zahidf]

1 minute ago, fatyeti24 said:

"It's not cancelled Paul, they just don't need you this year"

Ha!

He said earlier in the interview that he doesn't have any gigs booked for next year. So it could be the case that Glastonbury haven't asked him to play again yet until they are sure its going ahead

 

[swede]

When Billie Eilish and Paul McCartney, both huge stars but at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of fans, say they ain’t playing live shows next year, I’d take that as a massive sign festivals  aren’t happening boys and girls 

[Joshuwarr]

1 minute ago, swede said:

When Billie Eilish and Paul McCartney, both huge stars but at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of fans, say they ain’t playing live shows next year, I’d take that as a massive sign festivals  aren’t happening boys and girls 

Again, two artists that can afford a break. Many acts that need this for their livelihoods will take a very different view. Now that may not mean big festivals have a hope but to rule out large gigs of any kind is premature.

[AlexOvd]

I am loosing my faith a bit after that Macca comments... Just please hold our tickets to 2022 if it's cancelled, PLEASE. 

[funkychick2007]

The festival is never certain until January any year!!! Glastonbury is more than just the headliners!!! 
Lets not get too drawn into all the rumours!!! 
see you all on the farm in June!!! 😘

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 hour ago, Copperface said:

Are flags now a superspreading vector?

I wondered this: what the fuck have flags got to do with anything? I guess he was just making a picture in his head of the event, which is quite sad.