Sun, cider and no more social distancing? What to expect from UK festivals in 2021
David Ellis and Jochan Embley
It’s not a light on the horizon, but a mud-splattered welly and cidersoaked Ramones tee. The Prime Minister’s roadmap for a release from lockdown offers a little hope for culture-starved, Vitamin D-deprived music lovers: festivals will rise again.
And with the anniversary of lockdown feeling more like a centenary, even those of us who thought we’d long ago swapped squalid tents for hotel suites are salivating at the thought of negotiating portaloos and screaming along to songs we don’t know the words to — long live the lost weekend.