TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow go ahead in September makes this decision even more difficult to accept,” it said.An update from The Electric Picnic team: https://t.co/axzYM4FJOv pic.twitter.com/RDG16wqUsB— Electric Picnic (@EPfestival) August 5, 2021It described the news as a “huge blow and set back to our entire sector, which was mandated to close on the 12th March 2020 (over 500 days ago).” The statement said that the decision means “the further loss of employment for over 3,000 people, who had clung to the hope that Electric Picnic would bring an end to their period of hardship.”The statement went on to call on the Irish government to interrupt its summer recess and “immediately issue reopening guidelines,” and thanked fans and local.
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