Download pilot event is “100 per cent” evidence that festivals can go ahead this summer, according to organiser Melvin Benn.The 10,000-capacity event held over the weekend (June 18-20), saw Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Bullet For My Valentine and Enter Shikari headline as the legendary rock festival made a small-scale return for a three-day camping pilot as part of ongoing research into the safe return of live music.Benn, director of Download promoter Festival Republic, called the event “extraordinary” in an interview with PA. “It’s really fantastic.
I am very heart-warmed by it all,” he added.“What is extraordinary about it is the level of compliance around the testing and requirements we have is absolutely extraordinary.
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