Electric Picnic 2021 - Cancelled :( **No Ticket Sales / Requests **

She presented the Covid Committee with a plan, had it rejected and was even denied a seat at the table for said committee. Jesus. I cannot wait to hear the details. Sounds disgraceful.

Couple of comments there that are ominous.

"the second highest 14-day incidence rate for Covid anywhere in Europe"

"The next six months could be more damaging than the previous 18 if a reopening strategy does not take everything into account.”

Oh give me strength. To hell with these vague generalities. We're the best, we're the worst. Christ, what will be different in 6 months? We're almost where they are in the States now, where they are in the North, in that everyone who WILL have a vaccine, HAS a vaccine. Albeit with far healthier percentages. These poor feckers in the music industry are looking to stage events for fully vaccinated people or people who can prove they are virus free. When, you absolute tools, when??? Could somebody please stand in front of a microphone and tell us under what circumstances a few hundred of us fully vaccinated, fully compliant citizens can stand in front of a band again?

😉 Fair play, Academy!. Get the message out there.

I just don't get what we're doing? If covid is really still dangerous and we have a high incidence rate, are we going to have another lock down? And if we did, what are we trying to achieve if our borders are open.

If we say "Lock down isn't needed" as we have a high vaccine uptake. What's the acceptable metric.

No conspiracy theory, but I'd love to drill down on the hospital figures that's the only card that can be played now, we could have 10,000 cases per day, but if there's only a hand full in hospital, the 10,000 is irrelevant.

We've already heard 1 in 3 women are listed as "hospitalised" simply because they're pregnant and can't remain in the maternity hospital. So those figures we see daily, you can remove 1/6 approx.

But I wonder what else?? I guess if you're already in hospital and you contract covid, are you then considered in this count?

If someone is or has a family member that's abnormally precautious, they can sway doctors/nurses or the individual to stay in over night, particularly if they have any ailment!

Todays meet was really disappointing! Not even a token agreement for live music! I mean all they needed to say is "we'll arrange a 2000 capacity outdoor test event in September, no mask, no PODs, with test before and after, trial run then we can make a further decision afterwards". Not going to help EP21 (That's 100% gone now) but atleast it would have been something!!

In fact I'll go one bit further and say that the drip feed "2 weeks to flatten the curve" approach & without even the slightest offering of live events yesterday, it tells me we are a long long way from gigs, months possibly years!

Surprised we haven't seen a petition yet + I can see some form of protests in the coming months.

Just have two Picnics in 2022, one in March/April and one at the usual time.

Save time on building the September one by having most of it built earlier in the year.

Open the site from the Wednesday.

Freeflow cans across the site.

Radiohead, Aphex Twin etc.

This is so frustrating for us music fans but must be horrific for the artists and crews who cant do anything about the fact that they cannot work. And while things will hopefully get back to normal at some stage they cant really make up for what they lost. I am worried that the get everyone vaccinated and this will end proclamations are now being viewed as flawed and there is no sense of when we will get back to some level of normality. We are doing brilliantly on vaccination levels but its not being reflected demonstrably in real life returning and as other countries not doing so well on vaccinations high likelihood that we will have ups and downs as we reopen and as we know the arts will be the first to suffer. Sorry to be depressing.

Listening to the new Lyla Foy album Fornever which is cheering me up.

Nice little final slap in the face

Entertainment sector should have reopened this summer, immunologist says

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/entertainment-sector-should-have-reopened-this-summer-immunologist-says-1.4650824

PCR tests are between 50e and 90e.

Antigen tests are 7e.

Absolutely no ****ing reason why people could not congregate once they have tested negative within the previous 24 hours. None.

I think personally that Catherine Martin should resign, if she sticks to her own principles and makes it due to the governments apathy toward this, it will bring the government into disrepute for a bit to have another minister depart the office. Maybe it might shake them into coming up with a plan. Of course, schools and colleges will be the next priority in the talks I'd imagine.

I'm not really buying Catherine Martin's role here either. I mean she's currently presenting herself as on he side of the music industry, having presented a roadmap to government that was rejected, asked for a seat on the Covid committee, rejected...she's not a plucky outsider fighting for the little man, this is HER government, her colleagues. She's either a minister with some power, some say, or what is she? Make something happen or get out.

Good luck fish_fingers enjoy Green Man, take as many videos and pics to show us what we're missing.

Assuming we'll be gigging by February, I just got tickets to the Delines at the Liberty Hall theatre for the 12th. @Seathrun66 You're a fan of those guys, aren't you? Bizarre, I'm in the middle of a Willy Vlautin book and I just had a flick to see if they're touring. Lo and behold...

It's a small act of defiance.

Had seen that but held off in case they returned here. May buy for the Dublin gig but I'm up to my eyeballs in retained tickets and have lost track of what I've booked.

And yeah, i'm an enormous fan. I really like Richmond Fontaine but these guys are a step up. Amy Boone's vocals are stunning and the keyboardist from the Decembrists also a great addition. Her getting through a hideous car accident and finally being able to walk onto a stage again is a story in itself. They're also very friendly and a real pleasure to catch them in Galway in Jan 2019. Vlautin very chatty and said they'd be back in early 2020. We know how that panned out. A great writer too and I can't speak highly enough of their live show. Yep, though I may not have been clear, I do like 'em.