His ebb and flow between powerful, ballad-inspired bridges and gritty, grimey breakdowns pumped power through an already enthusiastic audience. Throughout the set, that approach both acted as the rallying charge and the over-the-top release that made the crowd swirl, rock and raise a swath of hands at a moment’s notice. Whether it be pent-up musical adrenaline or electric magic in the air, the late-night celebratory spirit throughout Belknap Park rang clear that Breakaway was back.“A lot of us want to urge government to follow the example set up already in other areas, like travel, where people will have to show proof of vaccination or of a recent test,” said Josh Robinson, events director of Hospitality Weekend in the Woods, a drum’n’bass festival set to take over a park in south-east London in September. We need that clarity, rather than each having to go to people and explain.” Gareth Williams, director of Cropredy, the folk festival hosted by the band Fairport Convention on the borders of Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire in mid-August said: “What we really need is for government to say everybody needs a vaccination to get in. Robinson sold 16,000 tickets in five hours for his new festival, a spin- off from established annual events staged in the capital.
“The roadmap has given fans the impetus to start buying, which is great, but we are operating like a bank or something, in a strange scenario where we are just holding people’s money in case we have to return it.” It would normally have taken eight or nine months to sell that many,” he said. Ian Brown, who pulled out of headlining a music festival this year over his vaccine scepticism. Uncertainty about the pace of the pandemic’s retreat and about safety regulations both mean that final confirmation of dates is on hold. Last week, ex-Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown declared that he would not play at an event with a vaccination-only policy. Brown is a virus sceptic and has pulled out of an appearance at Neighbourhood Weekender in Warrington, saying: “I refuse to accept vaccination proof as a condition of entry.” This has added to the complexity of communicating entrance requirements to performers, as well as to punters and stage crew.
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