Festivals on what to expect from the summer: “Safety is all we think about”

NME about the likelihood of artists from overseas being able to perform at events this summer, and how COVID could impact on line-ups.With many festivals cautiously going ahead after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s roadmap to normality stating that full capacity live events and mass gatherings should be able to resume from June 21 in England provided that vaccination targets are met and new COVID variants don’t take hold, much speculation now surrounds what a summer of live music might look

Spike Lee, who was set to lead last year’s jury for the Cannes Film Festival that was ultimately cancelled by the pandemic, will preside over this year’s jury instead.

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It is truly beginning to feel like we’re in a time loop. It was only a year ago when the Cannes Film Festival announced that Spike Lee would be the Jury President for the film festival.

coronavirus lockdown rules are eased this summer.People will be participating in test events held at some of the city’s nightclubs, comedy clubs and business venues as organised by venue managers with the government.Organisers will collect evidence and share their experiences with others in the event economy, which will be provided to the government to see if venues can reopen in line with the planned four-stage roadmap out of lockdown [via BBC News].At present, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has

Overall, 93 movies were eligible for this year's Academy Awards in the best international feature film category. When the five Oscar nominees were unveiled on Monday morning, two countries could celebrate earning their first-ever nods in the category.

direct to your inboxTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has said he is “hopeful” that people will be able to travel abroad this summer but warned there were no “cast iron guarantees”. Mr Shapps said that under Boris Johnson's roadmap out of coronavirus restrictions in England, the earliest people would be able to travel overseas was May 17 but he urged caution when it came to booking.

The doings of the international art world often seem arcane and over the top, but never moreso than as depicted in The Man Who Sold His Skin. This is a madly dramatic and engrossing melodrama about a political refugee whose unique predicament bundles with it issues pertaining to personal and political identity, the Middle East quagmire, romantic rejection and the outer limits of art world presumption and extravagance.

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has admitted that he lied to investors who pumped millions of dollars into the infamous Bahamas event.McFarland made the bold admission in an unauthorised interview from behind bars with radio host Jordan Harbinger for the Dumpster Fyre podcast – which has landed him in solitary confinement.McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Elkton, Ohio after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for

direct to your inboxWales' health minister has cast doubt over the prospect of music festivals or sporting events with large crowds taking place in the country this summer.Boris Johnson's roadmap, which was unveiled last week, gives hope that all limits on large events and performances can be lifted on June 21, at the earliest.Before that, on May 17 at the earliest, The Prime Minister said that outdoors, a capacity of 4,000 people, or half full, will be allowed for performances and sporting

Fyre Festival could’ve been criminally fun. In a new jailhouse interview, incarcerated party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to the investors who put millions into funding his notorious 2017 luxury retreat failure — but blamed an impossible timeline for the scam he’s now doing time for co-organizing. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unsanctioned interview which

Live Nation‘s CEO has hopes that concerts and festivals could return by the summer.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLive Nation has taken a timeline provided by the British government as an all-clear for the summer festival season, selling some 170,000 tickets this week to three major U.K.

The inaugural Red Sea Film Festival — which was due to launch March 12, 2020 in Saudi Arabia's coastal city of Jeddah and became one of the first festival casualties of the coronavirus — has finally been rescheduled. Almost a year to the day that the festival was canceled as the kingdom reported its first cases of COVID-19 and much of the world was beginning to feel the devastating effects of the pandemic, organizers have revealed that the festival will now take place Nov.

direct to your inboxDr Hilary Jones has issued a warning over festivals and other mass gatherings going ahead this summer.June 21 is now marked on many people's calenders after Boris Johnson unveiled his roadmap out of lockdown in England.This is because it is the earliest date all restrictions could be lifted - more than a year after the first lockdown was implemented.The Prime Minister said set out his four stage plan on Monday which will gradually see the lifting of restrictions and the