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Silver linings
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While assembling this month’s Access, I caught myself wistfully
scrolling through galleries from previous years of Boomtown.
There were photos of exploding fireworks, elaborate costumes and
ecstatic crowds. In 2020, it’s almost hard to imagine anyone having that
much fun. For comparison, the most exciting thing that happened to me
in May was fixing the broken lamp in my living room.
Boomtown’s Creative Director Lak Mitchell, who I interviewed on p27,
says his team are using the downtime to plan for an even bigger and
more creative return – a tantalising prospect in 2021. But what about
this year?
May felt like the month in which most festival organisers gave up
hope of holding their events in 2020. Cancellations and postponements
reached the end of August. As AFO’s Steve Heap says on p20: as long
as social distancing is on, festivals are off.
Or are they? Outside the UK, some countries have reopened their
live industry. Estonia’s Tallin Music Week is going ahead in August,
as I found out from the organisers on p14. And then there is our cover
feature, beginning on p22, where we meet the creative minds planning
socially distanced events in 2020.
Stay safe, stay positive and enjoy the issue.
Stuart Wood, Acting Editor
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