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Reading & Leeds boss: “I think the festival season really can happen”

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Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn has offered up fresh hope that festival season will be able to go ahead this summer as planned.Speaking to NME just after the gates opened at last weekend’s Sefton Park COVID pilot gig in Liverpool (where all entrants where tested for coronavirus before being allowed in), the Festival Republic Managing Director revealed what the event could mean for the coming summer of live music.“This is a pilot event and I’ve been pushing to create something like this for a year now,” Benn told NME. “What I’ve been saying for the whole year is, if we adequately test people before they come into a gig, there’s no reason why the gig can’t happen.”He continued: “There’s no reason why the spread of the virus will get out of.

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