Electric Picnic 2021 - Cancelled :( **No Ticket Sales / Requests **

"Supporting totalitarianism" is some heft of a flex when anti-vax sentiment and associated pishpuffinery has its origins amongst right wing fascist grifters.

Lads, my sources have said this wont be going ahead.

Well if Satan doesn't have sources high up in the music industry.....

Could be but would it be worth their while? Know they got financial support from government so maybe reduced capacity and stream it for people who can't go or something? Guess it would be a compromise between going ahead with 70k or not going ahead at all.

That's a good point, wonder if The Flying Machine folks have had word yet. They travel across from England, doing a circuit of festivals throughout the year. They set up shop at a couple of locations at Glastonbury, and at the lower entrance to the Body & Soul stage at EP. Sound people and great food/coffee.

For the sake of safety ,I hope it doesn’t go ahead ,70k at a push near the end of September,I know the figures look promising on the vaccination front,but I think it’s too tight a deadline for it to go ahead,

By the way I got 3rd rescheduled email for Dynamo Metalfest In Eindhoven,rescheduled for summer 2022, I’ll have to put in for a 6 month career break to attend all the gigs in summer 2022!!!!

I'll still wear a mask in pretty crowded situations like the thoroughfare between the stalls and the stages or if I want to get up front near the barrier for a gig, will probably take a few bottles of santiser as well to be on the safe side. 😊

Melvin pushing for an answer either way.

Does everyone need to be vaccinated including the Artists for EP to go ahead?

Melvin Benn thinks otherwise

As stated above, he said that twice last year too.

He's just trying to bully the government now into letting it go ahead so he can make $$$, he has no idea one way or another by the sounds of those quotes.

Some more highlights from Camp Bestival 2021

Groove Armada

Psy Trance: Boom 21 Portugal - Avalon (28th July)

USA

Lollapalooza Festival 21 - Limp Bizkit

With all due respect, has the relative you have in nursing care been vaccinated? The risk is far less now than it was before. I really don't see how it would be an issue, and you have an even smaller portion of the potential attendees (such as yourself) that possibly might visit them after EP which you'd probably be best waiting two weeks for just to be safe.

Another question: Do you believe things will be any safer this time next year when there will likely be less people fully vaccinated? We have the data from the festivals that took place in the UK, cases have been really low.

We also have the really encouraging news of all the young people over the weekend using the walk in centres. These have been the same demographic that have been constantly blamed their recklessness and it's great to see them making the effort to get covered.

They were vaccinated (eventually mind you) despite the fact that the relative contracted COVID .isolated ,recovered although has some issues now with lung capacity . It is encouraging that the huge numbers are been vaccinated,it’s fantastic to see but as I said it is leaving it very tight with the run in to the end of September with a proposed 70k capacity