The boss of the Isle of Wight Festival has called on Boris Johnson to make use of an “army” of unemployed staff in the music industry to help with the national vaccine effort. Like many in the arts, John Giddings and his staff will face a big financial hit if the popular annual music festival is unable to go ahead as intended in June. “I am petrified they won’t roll [the vaccine] out in time for the festival to go ahead and I want to do everything physically possible to help,” Mr Giddings told the PA news agency. Dear @BorisJohnson – we are the music business – we have thousands of skilled people capable of running events & empty theatres/clubs/arenas – give us the vaccines & we will work 24 hours a day to sort it ?