After effectively ruling out the 2021 festival season, the governments in Denmark and Norway are now in the process of organising large-scale test events to determine how big gatherings can take place during the pandemic. According to Denmark’s live association, Dansk Live, such experiments were proposed in December 2020 and also in March 2021 by […]
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Exit Festival plans to offer doses of the coronavirus vaccine to international guests who attend the event this summer. The Serbian festival, which will be held in Novi Sad from 8–11 July, is set to go ahead as normal as the country charges towards a full reopening on 21 June, thanks to Serbia’s “successful mass […]
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Primavera Sound Festival has announced the programme for 2022, confirming previously reported rumours of a new expanded format. Next year’s 20th-anniversary edition will take place across two weekends, 2–4 June and 9–11 June, with more than 400 artists and 150 shows. The festival will primarily be held at the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona but […]
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Afrofusion star Burna Boy will kick off the O2’s Welcome Back Shows series this summer, heralding a return to normality for the London arena. The Welcome Back Shows series will welcome capacity crowds to the 20,000-cap. arena for the first time since 2020, starting with Burna Boy’s first-ever headline show on 27 August. The concert, […]
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Spain’s 2021 festival season has diminished once again with fresh cancellations from major festivals Mad Cool and Bilbao BBK Live. Other marquee Spanish festivals including Primavera Sound and Sónar Barcelona were previously called off, while Arenal Sound, Festival Internacional de Benicàssim and Cruïlla are still forging ahead with this year’s events. Live Nation-promoted Mad Cool […]
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Results from Belgium’s first-ever cultural test events, which took place at the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS) and concluded in early May, have been deemed a success. The two-week test series took place in KVS’s 500-capacity room with 50–250 attendees and examined how the air quality in the room was impacted by the presence of an […]
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Belgium’s Rock Werchter has announced a smaller stand-in event for the flagship festival which was cancelled in March. The concert series, dubbed Werchter Parklife, is set to run for four days a week between 1 July and 1 August 2021 in a temporary open-air arena at the Werchter festival site. Already confirmed for Werchter Parklife […]
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Swedish music fans will have to endure another barren festival summer following a slate of cancellations from the country’s biggest events. Sweden Rock (9–12 June), Lollapalooza Stockholm (2–5 July), Way Out West (12–14 August) and Statement Festival (3–4 September) have been called off. Urkult, Bingsjöstämman, Storsjöyran, Dance Band Week in Malung, Gefle Metal, Putte in […]
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Festival Republic plans to follow up its recent Sefton Park Pilot event in Liverpool with a second test festival, this time with camping, next month. Sefton Park Pilot, along with Tuesday’s Brit Awards one of two live music events held as part of the UK’s Events Research Programme (ERP), took place on 2 May, welcoming […]
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Norway’s 2021 festival season has been effectively wiped out with the cancellation of Live Nation-owned festivals Bergenfest and Tons of Rock, Superstruct-backed Øya Festival, Over Oslo, Picnic in the Park, Stavernfetsivalen, Seljord Festival and Country Festival. The cancellations come after the minister for culture last week (6 May) announced preliminary guidelines which would restrict festivals […]
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