Nearly every festival this summer is still going ahead. I wouldn’t expect to hear a cancellation for a mid-July festival until beginning of June at the earliest.
Yeah, this is fairly meaningless at the moment. To start with, the situation will worsen – very few people are sick compared to the amount of people that will get sick in the coming weeks and months, so the measures will increase where they haven’t already. Secondly, festivals themselves can’t just cancel without their hand being forced, otherwise they’d have to give refunds etc, and obviously festivals don’t want to cancel, for their own good. The festivals that have gotten cancelled/postponed so far are close date-wise, and the things that have cancelled elsewhere, such as E3, rely heavily on sponsors and companies attending, which suffers from companies already having pulled out etc.
Basically, its always going to be the case that they say “yes its going ahead as planned” right now. There’s no reason they wouldn’t unless the government had announced measures that would make it impossible to do so.
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Nearly every festival this summer is still going ahead. I wouldn’t expect to hear a cancellation for a mid-July festival until beginning of June at the earliest.
Yeah, this is fairly meaningless at the moment. To start with, the situation will worsen – very few people are sick compared to the amount of people that will get sick in the coming weeks and months, so the measures will increase where they haven’t already. Secondly, festivals themselves can’t just cancel without their hand being forced, otherwise they’d have to give refunds etc, and obviously festivals don’t want to cancel, for their own good. The festivals that have gotten cancelled/postponed so far are close date-wise, and the things that have cancelled elsewhere, such as E3, rely heavily on sponsors and companies attending, which suffers from companies already having pulled out etc.
Basically, its always going to be the case that they say “yes its going ahead as planned” right now. There’s no reason they wouldn’t unless the government had announced measures that would make it impossible to do so.
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