Ramblin’ Man news : You will of course have seen that both Glastonbury and now Download festivals ha…

Latest Festival Flyer update from Ramblin’ Man Fair

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You will of course have seen that both Glastonbury and now Download festivals have had no option but to cancel their events in June. Perhaps now you are wondering what intentions we at RMF HQ may have toward our own show. So here it is: as the situation currently stands, we are still very much intending to go ahead with Ramblin Man Fair 2020 over the weekend of July 17-19.

If the obvious needed to be stated: there are significant differences between the vast scale of both Glastonbury and Download and that of RMF. Both Glasto and DL require significant Police and Emergency Services support, not least to help shut down motorway exits. Clearly RMF does not draw upon such state resources at our level of attendance. Moreover, Glasto is so big that it actually starts the perimeter fence build in March – and due to the current lockdown that process couldn’t be started, and as such was one of the main logistical reasons for them opting to take a fallow year and let the farming ground recover.
The way we see it is if the ban on mass gatherings has lapsed by mid June – and we are all rather hoping that it will, aren’t we? – then RMF will go ahead as planned. If it hasn’t or if it categorically looks like a lift on the ban won’t happen in June by an obvious point earlier than that (like a govt edict for all summer events stating so) then of course we will be looking at taking different decisions.
In the past couple of weeks the RMF team have been in constant contact with the artists booked to play this year’s festival. Over 90% of them have stated that they still intend to come and play this summer – including those from America.
But let us be realistic for a moment, Those same US artists stating now, in late March, that they feel that they will be prepared to travel in July to play in the UK could well be making a different decision as a rapidly developing Covid-19 picture unfolds around them and more lockdowns are issued. As such, we at RMF are drawing up a list of artists based in the UK who have found that conversely, they too aren’t now able to tour the US this summer either. So, even if those US artists do change their minds about RMF then there is an intention to still go ahead. But hey, when you listen to Trump, the US will have Covid-19 licked by Easter, so who are we to worry?

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