Rolling festival / tour / concert / event cancellations due to COVID-19 thread

Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread

It's looking like mid-Fall is the new target for getting touring/large-ish shows going again? The big area indie venue has started announcing shows for then, including a rescheduled date w/a noted ilxor.

Said ilxor being Esteban Buttez of course.

I should clarify this is in America. Ymmv.

seems like too soon, there's zero chance I go to a concert or even a half-empty bar until I've got a positive antibody test or been vaccinated and I can't see either of those things being available (to me anyway) by October

Psycho Las Vegas is in August and already moved back a year

Big Thief just canceled the rest of their shows for the year... their Hollywood show in August was my only one on the books.

I noticed in that great Vulture interview w/Hayley Williams that her small venue tour has been bumped to next year.

NY Philharmonic cancelled through 2021.

I'm seeing notices online that a handful of local venues are starting to go forward with small stakes shows (tribute bands, local performers) later this month.

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/music-venues-foresee-permanent-closure-1234629793/

The Metropolitan Opera already cancelled through the end of the year too.

Yeah, we just lost Barracuda, where I saw LPD and Ex Hex (among others) last year... gonna miss that place. Don't want to think about what things will look like a year from now for live music venues in Austin.

this is what i do for a living so you can imagine how i feel

Lollapalooza in Chicago was finally officially canceled this week.

I miss live music so much that I've resorted to doing what I did when i was in college and couldn't afford to go to any.... watching live vids.

ACL Fest cancelled.

"torn", surely

VMS Live venues the Welly and the Polar Bear shut their doors for good, as do Manchester's Gorilla and Deaf Institute

https://www.iq-mag.net/2020/07/two-vms-live-companies-enter-administration/

The Satellite / Spacelab in LA is converting to a gastropub after 25 years as a live venue, and Re-Bar in Seattle (mainly a DJ and drag and theatre and weirdo gay video arts, but some live music) has been forced out of one of the only remaining single-story buildings downtown, after 30 years - their neighbour in the building is a sandwich shop that opened in 1948. Nirvana held the Nevermind launch party there, and got kicked out for trying to get in the DJ booth.

So it would appear that all the festivals are more or less back in force, with a few new additions. Different requirements for the ones I've seen, though (besides the standing requirement that they all feature the same bands). Pitchfork requires proof of vaccination or negative test *and* a mask, iirc, Lollapalooza requires proof of vaccination or negative test, *or* a mask. I think Bonnaroo is masks required (but no proof of vaccination or negative test). Riot Fest says "full compliance with local and state regulations regarding health screenings and mask mandates," which is non committal and probably takes into account that things may change again before September, anyway.

Anyone that goes to one of these things unvaxxed is crazy. At the same time, most of these things suck so much in the best of circumstances, I can only imagine what it will be like to hang packed in with the great unwashed for hours on end in the summer *with* a mask on (like they'll even be able to enforce them anyway). Though at the least the mask might help with the dust and stink.

JazzFest again this year.

More to follow?

Wise elder statesmen of rock Limp Bizkit have cancelled their summer tour. I think this bodes poorly for the future of live music this year.

The safety of our patrons and staff is our number one priority. As such a full COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 test will be required to attend Bonnaroo 2021. pic.twitter.com/KnwCJWaNf4

— Bonnaroo (@Bonnaroo) August 10, 2021

Btw, the comments there are kind of illuminating. Not too much pushback that I saw, but a lot of fascinating ignorance. Like, people complaining there is not enough time to get both doses of Pfizer or Moderna before the festival ... but they've literally had months and months to get vaccinated, so is this really, finally all it took? Or people asking, because J&J is all that's left as a wannabe fully-vaxxed option, what the difference is between it and the other two. Really? Where have you all been?

Limp cancelled cos Wes fell ill

Where have you all been?

1. partying
2. in states where communities and governments actively work towards making that kind of info hard to access

It boggles the mind, we carry supercomputers with all the information in the world on it in our goddam pockets. So, sure, partying, I guess.

but they've literally had months and months to get vaccinated, so is this really, finally all it took?

For some, it's an empanada. For some, it's the opportunity to see tha Bizk'. But what unites them is a lack of self-care or concern for their loved ones.

we carry supercomputers with all the information in the world on it in our goddam pockets

yes, but also all the misinformation in the world

Though I do love the idea of Bonnaroo bros partying so hard they don't even know we're in the midst of a pandemic. They're probably wondering why there's been a two year gap between sets.

perhaps they thought Sleep was playing Dopesmoker

Except they are also going with the 72 hour negative test result (same as Lolla) which, iirc, has been noted as way too long.

They really should just require proof of vax, period.

Seriously. I don't get the negative test result shit. Okay, I'm sure this individual who's still unvaccinated in August of 2021 has made nothing but responsible choices in the 72 hours since they tested negative, right on.

Maybe they've just had covid a lot so assume they are very immune.

They really should just require proof of vax, period.

I wish!

Seriously. I don't get the negative test result shit. Okay, I'm sure this individual who's still unvaccinated in August of 2021 has made nothing but responsible choices in the 72 hours since they tested negative, right on.

Not even that! It's "lucked out enough to not be positive on that specific date" but I highly doubt someone still unvaccinated at this point is going to sit patiently at home for those 72 hours pre-show. Of course they will be out and mixing with people and potentially getting infected.

They're even offering testing on site, if you really want to test your luck.

After 18 months of full denial i have finally come round to the we are all going to get it eventually, probably several times point of view as it just seems sadly inevitable. it is now endemic in the UK, the whole country is fully open and i'm pretty sure there will be no turning back now. i am burning through the lateral flow tests at a crazy rate and am fairly sure i'll catch it in the not too imminent future.

do US folks here intend to avoid gigs etc for the foreseeable future?

I've got tickets for a big outdoor show in mid-September, bought during that flush of hope early this summer when it seemed like we might be turning a corner. It might end up being a last minute decision on whether I go or not, currently leaning towards going and masked, but I don't know.

Same. Tickets for my show (medium-sized venue, also mid-Sept.) were initially seated and socially-distanced and I wasn't planning to go, but then they switched it up to general admission and I bought them, ostensibly have people coming to stay with us from out of town to see said show, all or some or none of which might ultimately happen. Like everything else, it's just a matter of playing it by ear minute-to-minute based on whatever little snatches of seemingly-reliable information we can grab from the ether. It's goddamn exhausting.

do US folks here intend to avoid gigs etc for the foreseeable future?

Still debating. My first ticketed shows aren't until the end of September, and I am waiting to see what things are like much closer to the time.

until further notice i'm seeing phish on saturday. idk

Until my kids can be vaccinated, I would feel irresponsible going to a big gathering. If I were single, or lived in a household with all healthy/vaxxed people (who were ok with it), I might go to a gig... at least outdoors?

I've got tickets to two concerts in the coming months.

do US folks here intend to avoid gigs etc for the foreseeable future?

Two weeks ago, El Vez and Digable Planets played an open-air plaza downtown in daylight, which was the first music I’ve seen since Feb 2020. I don’t intend to attend any indoor shows in 2021, and may not see anything else outdoors unless it’s as small as those.

Stevie Nicks has cancelled all of her 2021 shows, including several festival performances.

And so the pushback begins?

Tomorrow's @JasonIsbell and the 400 Unit show at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston, TX is CANCELLED. Unfortunately, the venue was not willing to comply with the band's updated Health and Safety standards. (1/2)

— Southeastern Records (@SoutheasternRec) August 10, 2021

I really would like to know how well that show sold in the first place. The venue is a 20000 seat summer shed tied to LiveNation and the city of the Woodlands (a big semi-upper class suburb of Houston).

I'd be willing to bet that it was the city that balked at Isbell's demands: it's a bit of a GOP stronghold, and they probably would have been responsible for checking out the attendees (ticket-takers, concessions etc. are all handled by volunteers from the community).

https://www.houstonpress.com/music/jason-isbell-show-in-the-woodlands-cancelled-11701965

"The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion fully supports and commends Jason Isbell and his team for their commitment to the health of their fans, crew, band and venue staff. We are on on the same page here and we agree with what Jason Isbell would like to implement, but there is a timing issue," wrote Jerry MacDonald, president & CEO of The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion.

"To implement a major change in policy such as what is requested will take more time than we have," MacDonald wrote.