Latitude Competition hasn’t “given up hope” for 2021 occasion after June 21 delay

Latitude Competition has issued a press release in response to the federal government’s announcement that deliberate easing of coronavirus restrictions will probably be delayed by 4 weeks.

Beforehand, all limits on social distancing and crowd capacities had been resulting from be lifted on June 21, nevertheless Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced at present (June 14) that this can no longer happen till July 19 as a result of unfold of latest COVID-19 variants.

With Latitude resulting from start simply three days later (July 22-25) the pageant’s founder Melvin Benn has mentioned the staff remains to be weighing up whether or not it might happen as deliberate.

“We don’t assume it means the top of our hopes for Latitude this yr,” mentioned the assertion, which you'll learn in full under.

A @cinchuk presents Latitude 2021 replace from Melvin…#Latitude2021 pic.twitter.com/hUudZylzyB

— Latitude Competition (@LatitudeFest) June 14, 2021

Benn wrote that “while this night’s assertion is disappointing, we haven’t given up hope simply but.

“When you’ll permit us just a bit extra time, we’re going to spend the following few days trying on the data and chatting with the related authorities departments to work out what it means for the pageant.”

He added that he hopes to have a particular reply about whether or not Latitude will probably be going forward by the top of this week.

“Our first precedence is all the time the security of our festival-goers, the workers and the artists. We’ll be working with the native and nationwide authorities and can be certain that IF we aren’t capable of go forward by the top of this week, all ticketholders will be capable of roll over their tickets to 2022 or be capable of declare a refund.”

Earlier at present, in the meantime, the Affiliation of Unbiased Festivals (AIF) referred to as for an pressing intervention from the federal government for festivals.

In Might the AIF had issued a “purple alert” and mentioned it had hit a “brick wall” in talks with the federal government after a scarcity of pageant insurance coverage sparked the widespread cancellation of occasions this summer season.

In the meantime, bosses from a few of England’s most beloved grassroots music venues have spoken of their worry and frustration, with roughly £36million set to be misplaced because of the easing of coronavirus restrictions being delayed by 4 weeks.