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Over the past year, the traditional sounds of the festival summer – the drone of guitar feedback, the smack of drumstick on snare – have been silenced by the pandemic. On Friday, they’ll finally be blowing the dust off the amps at Donington Park, where 10,000 people will be rocking and camping at the Download pilot – an event the industry hopes will herald the return of live music. Yet even once Boris Johnson decides to take the final step to.
Crowds watching the Kings of Leon in London s Hyde Park, 2017
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Britain’s cautious attempts to open up the live music industry are about to be shown up by our cousins across the Atlantic.
New York mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a vast 60,000-capacity open air concert on Central Park’s Great Lawn, with a tentative date of Saturday August 21. It will, according to The New York Times, be a “grand symbol of New York’s revitalisation after a brutal pandemic year”. De Blasio has asked Clive Davis, the legendary 89 year-old producer who signed Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston, to pull together a line-up.
The Event Research Programme has seen several high-profile events take place over the last month, including the Good Business Festival conference at ACC Liverpool
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