Those of you who have attended concerts and gigs (whether indoors or outdoors), music festivals and the like since they have been able to resume, have you noticed any Covid precautions still in place, whether they were put in place by the organisers or taken by attendees of their own accord? Or was everything pretty much as it was in the pre-Covid era?
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Covid precautions at concerts and music festivals
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Concerts - was mostly normal at the ones I've been to at Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham (haven't actually been for about 10 months so at the time they wanted a covid test or pass - but that's gone now) and also completely normal at the smaller venue of Rock City which I have been to more recently (which had staff wearing masks for a little bit of time post reopening but now is just completely normal at both club nights and concerts).
Festival - not been back to a festival since, but my friends reported that Community Festival in Finsbury Park was normal a few weeks back. In concerts you will likely find the few people who are indeed wearing masks to be in the seated areas not the standing and very unlikely to attend festivals in general - they're hardly the cleanest places at the best of times!
I would be interested to hear if there are any other perspectives though as this is indeed a very small sample and while I've been clubbing in London not long ago, I haven't been to any concerts or festivals here recently.
Festival - not been back to a festival since, but my friends reported that Community Festival in Finsbury Park was normal a few weeks back. In concerts you will likely find the few people who are indeed wearing masks to be in the seated areas not the standing and very unlikely to attend festivals in general - they're hardly the cleanest places at the best of times!
I would be interested to hear if there are any other perspectives though as this is indeed a very small sample and while I've been clubbing in London not long ago, I haven't been to any concerts or festivals here recently.
roversfan2001
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I've been to 24 gigs and 5 festivals in the UK since they started again last summer so I'd say I'm fairly qualified to answer this question. 
Covid paranoia was alive and well in late 2021, what with all the vaccine passports and testing. A small minority of people wearing masks but it was definitely noticeable. That has all near enough vanished this year though, particularly in the summer. It's been fantastic.
Covid paranoia was alive and well in late 2021, what with all the vaccine passports and testing. A small minority of people wearing masks but it was definitely noticeable. That has all near enough vanished this year though, particularly in the summer. It's been fantastic.
Gloster
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Observation on the bus is that the two groups who are likely to be wearing masks are the elderly (*) and those with various forms of disability cards. I suspect that festival-goers are largely drawn from other groups: ones that are less likely to bother in their normal life.
* - By elderly I mean those who are obviously or give the impression of being old. I know that plenty of older people attend festivals, but they are the ‘young at heart.’
* - By elderly I mean those who are obviously or give the impression of being old. I know that plenty of older people attend festivals, but they are the ‘young at heart.’
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I've been to 24 gigs and 5 festivals in the UK since they started again last summer so I'd say I'm fairly qualified to answer this question.
Covid paranoia was alive and well in late 2021, what with all the vaccine passports and testing. A small minority of people wearing masks but it was definitely noticeable. That has all near enough vanished this year though, particularly in the summer. It's been fantastic.
I've been to less than you but went to quite a few gigs last year when they re-opened. I agree there was the nonsense with passports but I got the impression that was just to comply with the rules/law. None of them actually made a serious effort to check the passes. And once you got into the venue there was hardly anything related to Covid. The most I saw was a few hand sanitizer stations and a very small number of mask wearers.
Unfortunately two of this year's planned gigs were cancelled due to a band member catching Covid so we're not completely back to normal yet! If the gig involves a travel and/or a hotel stay it's still worth making sure it's cancellable just in case.
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