Watch Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes headline first night time of historic Obtain Pilot

Final night time (July 18) noticed Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes headline the primary night time of the historic Obtain Pilot occasion, which welcomed the return of UK tenting festivals – see footage, response and extra beneath.

The ten,000-capacity occasion this weekend (June 18-20), which can see Carter and co joined by different headliners Bullet For My Valentine and Enter Shikari, indicators the legendary rock competition making a small-scale return for a three-day tenting pilot as a part of ongoing analysis into the protected return of stay music.

Upfront of the occasion, organisers mentioned that “moshing is allowed” for the occasion, and Carter predictably spent quite a lot of his set crowdsurfing within the entrance few rows of the group.

See footage and response from the headline set beneath.

Frank Carter x @Cassyette pic.twitter.com/l6PDsOi6N5

— ali (@Justdip) June 18, 2021

Frank Carter! #DownloadPilot pic.twitter.com/EVbhU9aJDO

— Raff (@Raff886) June 18, 2021

“This huge subsequent step will assist us perceive and research the protected return of large-scale festivals with no social distancing or face masks over a full weekend…” mentioned occasion organiser Melvin Benn, who additionally organised a sequence of pilot occasions in Liverpool over the Might Financial institution Vacation weekend, the place the likes of Fatboy Slim and Blossoms performed to a crowd with none COVID restrictions.

Talking to NME yesterday because the competition begun, Obtain boss Andy Copping mentioned: “It’s trying superb. Simply approaching website and seeing the whole lot arrange is so cool. Clearly it’s like a miniature model of Obtain as a result of we’re used to working to 100,000 folks yearly and this yr it’s solely 10,000 – but it surely simply feels so good to be seeing everyone.”

Of the protection of the occasion, he added: “The very fact is that from these different pilot occasions which have taken place, there was little or no signal of any an infection. That exhibits that that is working. Whether or not that’s right down to folks having their jabs, the best way that folks have been behaving throughout lockdown, the protection of the testing – all of it provides up.”

He continued: “We’ve been saying it for some time, however you’re really safer at a competition than not being at a competition.”

Obtain Competition will make a full return in 2022 with headline units from KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro.