Alan Dearling reflects on possible festi-and music/arts event futures for later in 2021 A day and a week are a long, long time in the current government lockdowns and Covid world orders. With a ‘Third Wave’ of infections, new Covid strains, new lockdowns sweeping across Europe, and beyond in the Indian sub-continent, South America and Africa, there’s no single silver bullet. No silver vaccine spoon. Few silver-linings to shield the realities that are just around the Hope Street corner… The options and possibilities are beguiling, diverse and potentially divisive. It all seems a long, distant, far-off time ago that the first lockdown occurred and there was talk of the ‘wartime, blitz spirit’…and ‘communities over-brimming with care and kindness’.