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Brit Beat: Reading & Leeds Boss Melvin Benn on the Festival’s Winds of Change (Both Literal and Metaphorical)

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Mark Sutherland Reading and Leeds Festivals always deliver one of the U.K.’s wildest weekends, but this year’s event was even more full of incident than usual. The set by Lana Del Rey (pictured above) was cut short by organizers, who later apologized; Reneé Rapp walked off stage after being drenched when accumulated rainwater was blown off the stage roof (again prompting an apology); and there was the small matter of the Oasis reunion effectively being announced at the end of Liam Gallagher’s set. But if things were pretty tempestuous on stage, they were even stormier off it — literally.
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Reading & Leeds boss: “I think the festival season really can happen”
Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn has offered up fresh hope that festival season will be able to go ahead this summer as planned.Speaking to NME just after the gates opened at last weekend’s Sefton Park COVID pilot gig in Liverpool (where all entrants where tested for coronavirus before being allowed in), the Festival Republic Managing Director revealed what the event could mean for the coming summer of live music.“This is a pilot event and I’ve been pushing to create something like this for a year now,” Benn told NME.
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Ralph Fiennes, Andrew Lloyd Webber and more sign pro-Covid passport letter to revive arts industry
Covid-19 certificate measures.Figures from across film, TV, theatre and music have signed a letter addressed to the Prime Minister that urges the use of coronavirus “passports” to help UK venues and festivals re-open quickly this summer.
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Festival insurance remains “single biggest worry” as government is urged to back up events
Reading and Leeds Festivals boss Melvin Benn have called on the government to offer festival insurance against coronavirus, after the lack of financial protection caused a line of events to cancel their 2021 editions.Boomtown and Barn On The Farm have both confirmed their cancellation in the last week, with both festivals stating that they faced a huge financial risk if COVID was to prevent them from going ahead in any capacity without insurance.“For an independent event as large and complex as Boomtown, this is a huge gamble of up to an eight figure sum and the financial risk is simply too high,” Boomtown said earlier today (April 20).Now, AIF CEO Paul Reed has warned that more cancellations will follow suit if the government fails to
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New podcast looking at music’s response to the climate emergency launches
A new podcast has launched looking at efforts to make the music industry more environmentally sustainable. ‘Sounds Like A Plan’ is hosted by Savages drummer Fay Milton and music journalist Greg Cochrane.Episode one sees Milton discuss the Music Declares Emergency project that she co-founded.
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Reading & Leeds Festival will “almost certainly” require a Covid-vaccine passport system
Reading & Leeds Festival will “almost certainly” have a COVID-vaccine passport system in place for this year’s festivals, according to organiser Melvin Benn.The twin festivals are currently due to go ahead as planned from August 27-29, with the likes of Stormzy, Post Malone and Liam Gallagher all set to play.Speaking to the BBC earlier today (March 30), Benn said that he was still confident that both Reading and Leeds would take place this summer with the UK currently on course to lift coronavirus-enforced restrictions in the coming months.“I’m taking the prime minister at his word that from June the legal restrictions will be off and as he and the culture secretary said: ‘We are looking forward to a summer of fun’,” Benn said.“If it is
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Latitude Festival 2021 will run at ‘full capacity’, says organisers
Lewis Capaldi, Bastille, First Aid Kit and Snow Patrol, with more still to be announced.It was originally scheduled to take place last year but was cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Last month, it was announced that the event was expected to still go ahead but that cancellation insurance had been provided as a precaution.
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Reading & Leeds boss tells parliament “festivals can go ahead with adequate testing”
Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn has told the UK Parliament that “festivals can go ahead safely with adequate testing”.Benn, the Managing Director of Festival Republic, took part in today’s (September 8) Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) hearing, where he was asked whether next summer’s festivals could go ahead with social distancing measures in place.“The answer is no. You can’t have festivals with social distancing,” he replied.
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Reading & Leeds boss says “everyone will be tested” for coronavirus at next year’s festival
Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn has revealed that “everyone will be tested” for coronavirus at next year’s festival.After this year’s edition was cancelled due to COVID-19, the first names on the line-up for Reading & Leeds 2021 were announced last night – with Stormzy, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Post Malone, Disclosure, Liam Gallagher and Queens Of The Stone Age all topping the bill at the event’s first run at having two main stages and six headliners.Speaking to NME last week before the announcement, Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn discussed how R&L would be tackling the challenge of coronavirus next summer.“COVID has given us a year off, so the innovation for next year is testing – everybody will be tested,” Benn told NME.He
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Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn: “Next year we’ll have two main stages and six headliners”
Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn wistfully tells NME on the eve of what would have been one of the loudest weekends of the year. Oh, what we’d give to be up at Bramham Park or down at Little John’s Farm right now to see a little more musical history being made.
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Michael Eavis says track-and-trace coronavirus app could be future of Glastonbury
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has suggested that using a track-and-trace app may be the future for festival-goers after coronavirus.The festival, which was set to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary this weekend, was forced to cancel the event as the pandemic began spreading across the globe earlier this year.Eavis has since warned that postponing the event for a second year could have huge financial implications for the event, but believes that new technology could provide a way forward.He has held discussions with Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn to collaborate on a scheme that will allow ticket-holders on site after they’ve proved that they are virus-free.According to Benn – who runs festivals including Reading and Leeds, Download,
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Reading & Leeds boss proposes coronavirus testing plan to reopen venues and pubs as alternative to social distancing
Festival Republic MD Melvin Benn says 'The Full Capacity Plan' is "very achievable with good organisation"
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Reading & Leeds boss proposes coronavirus testing plan to reopen venues and pubs as alternative to social distancing
Festival Republic MD Melvin Benn says 'The Full Capacity Plan' is "very achievable with good organisation"
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