Jamie cullum has done well there
that looks great. i want to go to vegas anyway, might try to get to a day of this. k dot and DaBaby is a pretty irresistible combo.
So looks like I was wrong about this and Bigfoot is going ahead this weekend?
Unless thereās a last minute cancellation or it was a scam all along?
Iām going and all the emails seem legit and the pre-entry testing is very thorough. Iāve got good vibes about it all (apart from the forecast).
Iāve also got tickets for Womad (which is the same weekend as Latitude) the first weekend after the new leap to freedom. Have slightly less good vibes about that going ahead, assume. theyāve sold pretty much capacity tickets, whereas Iām imagine Bigfoot to be massively under normal capacity.
Had no idea Blood Red Shoes were still going.
definitely a booking mix up for Rise Against to be on the 23rd
Is Bigfoot kind of just pretending to be part of a government trial or something? Itās not a local authority decision if the national rules donāt allow it:
Also clocked that they donāt let you take your own food and booze to the campsite, what a joke.
This is what I find interesting. Theyāve always insisted that 4000 capacity outdoor festivals are permitted in level 2 or whatever, but I donāt think thatās actually the case is it? If it was, wouldnāt there be a shitload of small festivals/outdoor gigs happening this weekend (and for the last month or so)?
They seem to be treating themselves as an unofficial pilot event based on the testing etcā¦
Edit: Sorry, you actually said the same, yeah.
Probably canāt be run economically if you actually enforce social distancing, hence why there arenāt any others? Assuming the point of the lateral flow tests is to then cover their backs when everyone is piled in to a tent together.
Iām very suspicious, will be very curious to see what comes out of this weekend. My gut instinct is that itāll be a fuckup.
Yeah most festivals wouldnāt be able to do that because they need to pack the site to make it viable but I guess theyāve somehow made this work because of the size of the site vs the amount of tickets sold. I dunno, Iām kind of glad theyāve managed to find whatever loophole it is anyway.
Main takeaway from this - NIN are touring Europe next summer. Very good news.
Mad that I havenāt really been into metal for about 15 years and I still recognise every name on this list. Always forget how massive Volbeat are in Europe too.
Going to be very interested to hear how the Download Pilot goes this weekend.
Iām going to Bigfoot. Must admit, Iām also very curious as to how itās going to work!
Didnāt realise it was this weekend, surprised itās still going ahead after the recent announcement
Is thatā¦legal?
This event was already designed for the current phase of restrictions. If anything itās probably even more important now to see how viable this sort of thing isā¦
Typically for Download, the weatherās taking a turn just as everyone sets off.
I was offered a ticket for it but it was too pricy for an event where theres a handful of bands Iād enjoy and Iād seen half of them already, regretting it a bit now