Will the 2021 festival go ahead?

[kalifire]

3 hours ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

If  god forbid it, Glastonbury doesn't happen next year but everything else does: what would be your big festival/event for the year?

Nothing. I’d use the money for other things. 

[steviewevie]

6 hours ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

If  god forbid it, Glastonbury doesn't happen next year but everything else does: what would be your big festival/event for the year?

one way ticket to New Zealand.

[Wooderson]

7 hours ago, jparx said:

 Mad Cool.

Nicely ran fest.

[Leyrulion]

9 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Boomtown

Same. It's my Oxfam volunteer plan. Really Interested in their new lay out and plan not to announce any acts until immediately before the festival.

Their whole interactive experience festival has been interesting to me since pre Corona.

[stuartbert two hats]

19 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

Same. It's my Oxfam volunteer plan. Really Interested in their new lay out and plan not to announce any acts until immediately before the festival.

Their whole interactive experience festival has been interesting to me since pre Corona.

I've been wanting to go for years, but don't want to spend too much time away from the family. Only reason I didn't go in 2018 was because it was their turn to have me. Next year, I reckon I can actually go.

[John the Moth]

3 hours ago, steviewevie said:

one way ticket to New Zealand.

We’re closed 😆

[Paul ™]

2 minutes ago, John the Moth said:

We’re closed 😆

Soon everywhere will be closed to the dirty Brits 🤣

[DTichborne]

19 hours ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

If  god forbid it, Glastonbury doesn't happen next year but everything else does: what would be your big festival/event for the year?

Saturday at Bluedot (Metronomy headlining). Went for the first time last year when Kraftwerk headlined and loved it. 

[Gnomicide]

Somewhat perversely, the new Covid strain may help.

[eastynh]

If Glastonbury is off, I am going LA to watch New Order and the Pet Shop Boys.

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

21 hours ago, Lycra said:

 The chances of Government coming through with insurance for GFL is deminishing with each passing day of the pandemic. Even an exact duplication of the lauded German scheme would not help as it applies to German festivals in 2021H2. And, as with any insurance scheme, it entails paying a premium with any pay out subject to excesses and limits. Consider the conseqences if the UK were to bring in a similar scheme which did include GF. The risk of a pay out would probably be rated as high or very high and presumably GFL's premium fee be high too. With GF being the largest festival its cancellation and would have serious consequences for the scheme finances. Including such a potentially high risk high payout policy within the insurance portfolio may be to the detriment of other festivals as their premiums may well be inflated disproportionately to their risk in order to generate cover capitol for the larger event.

The government will either underwrite insurance for the entire industry or they won’t, Glastonbury’s size had nothing to do with it.

if Germany’s scheme is worth £2.5bn, and if our events industry is even half the size of theirs, how much of a percentage of that figure do you seriously think Glastonbury costs to put on?

[dotdash79]

 

[dotdash79]

Not sure how real this account is

[Brave Sir Robin]

15 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

Not sure how real this account is

Impossible to tell, but seems plausible enough.

[Gilgamesh69]

19 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

 

Any reason I should trust some random guy on twitter?

 

I mean, isn't it a bit too early to cancel the festival?

[Jcatley]

Even if the account isn’t real it seems like it’s only a matter of time until we get confirmation. I haven’t ruled out hope of a festival season, I just don’t think Glasto is feasible with the time required to build.

[zahidf]

Just now, Gilgamesh69 said:

Any reason I should trust some random guy on twitter?

 

I mean, isn't it a bit too early to cancel the festival?

An account first started in Dec 2020 as well...

It could be true but I'm dubious.

[Crazyfool01]

That account did also say that state of play discussions would take place on Monday .... so it is being consistent 

[sisco]

This is the rest

[BFisherr]

If this is to be believed, who do we think the provisional returning headliner is? We thought Taylor had a better chance of coming back in 22 than 21 anyway right? 

[kingcrawler]

Just now, BFisherr said:

If this is to be believed, who do we think the provisional returning headliner is? We thought Taylor had a better chance of coming back in 22 than 21 anyway right? 

Yeah Taylor would make sense, all the talk around her returning to European festivals was that she was planning to return in 2022. 

[Redwinevino]

1 minute ago, BFisherr said:

If this is to be believed, who do we think the provisional returning headliner is? We thought Taylor had a better chance of coming back in 22 than 21 anyway right? 

Macca

Explains his comments the other day

[JoeyT]

20 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

Not sure how real this account is

I'm intrigued at how they have retweeted the s*n article saying nothing had been decided on Friday and there was a state of play discussion on Monday and then is able to confirm outcome of talks by 10am.

Surely it would take longer than an hour?

[grayfitz]

Lovely start to Christmas week that..

[Ozanne]

I'm dubious of this, the account is consistent but I doubt Glastonbury would announce news like this the week of Christmas. The festival is still going ahead in my mind.