download festival at donington park, near derby, is one of them. its taking place this weekend as part of the governments live event pilot scheme . the crowd is smaller and all those attending have had to have a negative covid test. 0ur correspondent, luxmy gopal, reports. they seem like scenes from pre pandemic times, rather than just this weekend. no masks and no keeping two metres apart. after all, you can t do social distancing in a mosh pit. the download festival pilot is a huge stepping up of the government s testing of live events. three days long, with capacity for 10,000 happy campers. to be back here isjust. it s incredible. i will go through every guideline and jump through every hoop they want me to to get back here like this. live festivals are basically all i do with my spare time, and live music, so it isjust incredible to be able to be
after the government gave the go ahead following a number of smaller scale test events. a significantly reduced crowd of 10,000 people will attend the three day festival. luxmy gopal has more. they seem like scenes from pre pandemic times rather than just this weekend no masks and no keeping two metres apart. after all, you can t do social distancing in a mosh pit. the download festival pilot is a huge stepping up of the government s testing of live events three days long, with capacity for 10,000 happy campers. to be back here, it s just incredible. i ll go through every guideline and jump through every hoop they want me to to get back here like this. live festivals are basically all i do with my spare time, and live music, so it sjust incredible to be able to be here again and experience that. oh, i m so excited for it. it s been so long since we ve been |able to socialise properly and see| people and make new friends. strict measures are in place to allow this level of freedom
rock fans from across the uk are at donington park in central england this weekend for a scaled down download festival. the country s biggest rock and metal event was resurrected after the government gave the go ahead following a number of smaller scale test events. a significantly reduced crowd of 10,000 people will attend the three day festival. luxmy gopal has more they seem like scenes from pre pandemic times rather than just this weekend no masks and no keeping two metres apart. after all, you can t do social distancing in a mosh pit. the download festival pilot is a huge stepping up of the government s testing of live events three days long, with capacity for 10,000 happy campers. to be back here, it s just incredible. i ll go through every guideline and jump through every hoop they want me to to get back here like this. live festivals are basically all i do with my spare time, and live music, so it sjust incredible to be able to be here again and experience that. oh, i m so
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last year, covid restrictions wiped out the uk s summer festival season. this year despite many events being delayed or cancelled some are going ahead. download festival at donington park near derby, is one of them. its taking place this weekend as part of the governments live event pilot scheme. the crowd is smaller and all those attending have had to have a negative covid test. 0ur correspondent luxmy gopal reports. they seem like scenes from pre pandemic times, rather than just this weekend. no masks and no keeping two metres apart. after all, you can t do social distancing in a mosh pit. the download festival pilot is a huge stepping up of the government s testing of live events. three days long, with capacity for 10,000 happy campers. to be back here isjust. it s incredible. i will go through every guideline and jump through every hoop they want me to to get back here like this.