I can’t say I have a great deal of confidence in those people who run the Tomorrowland festival at the moment. Earlier this year, I reported on how they’d cancelled their 2021 festival –...
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See which way the wind is blowing yet? Whilst England sticks vaccine passports on the backburner, Wales announces it’s following Scotland and introducing them from October 11th…
Well, this wasn’t a terribly surprising development, was it? Wales has announced that vaccine passports are about to become a thing in the country – just weeks after Scotland confirmed they were doing it...
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New York’s Electric Zoo is linked to a Covid cluster of at least 16 cases after eight people turned up at the three-day festival contagious with the virus – so just how many have been infected?
One thing I must say has surprised me over the past few months is how few cases of Covid-19 have emerged out of nightclubs and festivals. We’ve been told since the pandemic started that...
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The ADE Festival is going ahead – minus the conference – after Dutch Covid rule changes, but why does it feel like we haven’t heard the last word yet?
Sometimes, I will read or see something and it immediately feels a little bit off. Something somewhere isn’t quite making sense or stacking up in a way which seems logical. When I read about...
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Sacha Lord believes in looking after yourself at his events – so how much will he charge you for water to remain hydrated this weekend?
Say what you like about Sacha Lord – and this blog frequently comments on the self-declared man on a mission to save hospitality across Britain. But there’s one area that I won’t hear a...
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Now who’d have thought Boris Johnson would lie, eh? England’s Plan B if Covid is rampant this winter, according to the government, includes the vaccine passports they said on Sunday were dead in the water…
Well, this story just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it? After weeks of going cool on its own proposal for vaccine passports to enter England’s nightclubs, the Health Secretary announced on his media...
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Was this the weekend that the anti-vaxxers finally turned against Sacha Lord – and just how much DID he charge people attending Parklife at the weekend for a bottle of water?
The problem with trying to speak out of both sides of your mouth is that eventually, you’re going to get called out on it. This is especially true when you’re in a prominent public...
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And there was me thinking you were competent, Nicola! Scotland paves the way for vaccine passports for nightclubs – whilst not actually knowing what a nightclub is…
England and Scotland’s approaches to the vaccine passport for nightclubs couldn’t be much different, could it? In Boris Johnson’s England, he announced the plan on July 19th at a press conference on the TV....
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Does the government’s own webpage about the NHS Covid Pass inadvertently reveal that vaccine passports are virtually unenforceable? See what you think…
Vaccine passports for nightclubs continue to be a big topic in the news this week. It doesn’t help that the government in London keep blowing hot and cold on the idea – and I...
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What do clubbers think of vaccine passports? Amidst debates over whether to introduce them for nightclub entry, the question no one’s curiously bothered to ask…
Amidst the vaccine passports debates currently happening in England and Scotland, there are two questions which remain unanswered. The first one was – if clubbers have to be double vaccinated against Covid-19, will the...
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It’s not just Louie Vega and Derrick Carter who need to think of the polar bears! Massive Attack publish report into live music and climate change – and the industry won’t like its contents…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the perspective of an insider on the music industry’s attitude towards climate change. Which is basically nothing. And before that, I wrote in April about a report...
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Double jabbed to get into clubs or no entry, paying festivals £75k to plug the vaccine rollout – why are governments so determined to treat younger people like fools?
Over the weekend, I read in the Belfast Telegraph about a forthcoming event called Emerge. It’s taking place at Ormeau Park in south Belfast on September 17th and has the likes of Mella Dee...
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Texas promises $10k to anyone who shops a woman seeking an abortion attacks – isn’t it time DJs from the dance music world made their disapproval clear to see, or do they care more about their bank balances?
Anyone who cares about women’s rights should be extremely concerned about what’s happening in Texas right now. With the support of the US Supreme Court, the southern state has made abortion illegal in all...
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Is there anyone who ISN’T in the festival trade these days? Now even Swedish superstore IKEA are doing it – and they’ve even got Kaytranada on the bill…
When I think of IKEA, I think of those meatballs they serve in their canteens. I think of one-way systems all over the place, lugging heavy boxes all the way out to the car...
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As Beautiful People Festival reveal the times you’ll be able to see everyone this weekend, there’s no sign of the 30-minute sets which made Booker T pull out of the event…
Years ago, a night out would consist of seeing a small number of DJs. In the early days of house music, you might typically have just two or three DJs on the whole evening...
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Would you like to know what PD Jake of Chester Police has been doing at Creamfields? No, but I’m going to tell you anyway…
Last Monday, I reported that Chester Police have their own dedicated Twitter account for all matters related to Creamfields. I didn’t believe it when I was first told about it either, but it’s true....
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