When can Irish concerts & festivals return post Covid-19 lockdown, Electric Picnic latest & when will pilot gigs happen?
Updated: 19 May 2021, 16:54
WORKERS across the music and entertainment industry have been left redundant for over 400 days as a result of Covid-19 restrictions.
Hundreds of events were cancelled or rescheduled upon introduction of coronavirus restrictions from March 2020 and have yet to recommence.
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Ireland s live music scene has been at a standstill during Covid-19Credit: Crispin Rodwell - The Sun Dublin
As restrictions begin to ease and change across Ireland, people have been left wondering when concerts and festivals will get the green light to continue once more.
I can see no reason why it wouldn t be. It feels relatively safe to produce an event where everybody is tested, literally everybody, the staff, the bands the festival-goers, he said.
Benn noted that Ireland is four or five weeks behind the UK in terms of planning , however, he added that he can see no reason why the government won t say you can be back to normal by August .
Festival Republic hosted a test concert in Liverpool s Sefton Park on 2 May, with 5,000 people who had been tested enjoying the first legal rave in the UK since the pandemic began.
Benn said the results of the tests five days after the event are looking really positive .
I can see no reason why it wouldn t be. It feels relatively safe to produce an event where everybody is tested, literally everybody, the staff, the bands the festival-goers, he said.
Benn noted that Ireland is four or five weeks behind the UK in terms of planning , however, he added that he can see no reason why the government won t say you can be back to normal by August .
Festival Republic hosted a test concert in Liverpool s Sefton Park on 2 May, with 5,000 people who had been tested enjoying the first legal rave in the UK since the pandemic began.
Benn said the results of the tests five days after the event are looking really positive .
While the rollout of the test events was initially planned for July at the earliest, Martin said she would now be more ambitious than that and hopes to see concerts make a return as early as June.
Speaking to reporters while welcoming the reopening of Ireland’s National Cultural Institutions on Monday, she said: I think July latest, but I would be more ambitious than that and I would like to see some live music events, test events, take place in June. I met Festival Republic last week, they ran the Sefton Park rave in Liverpool.
Martin added that the events will initially begin as outdoor events before the implementation of indoor concerts can make a return.