Episode 1: Coronavirus Music Festival Special

The Guest List by Skiddle

With the industry in turmoil following the outbreak of COVID-19 and countless postponements and cancellations, we want to see how festival organisers are coping and responding to the situation.
Is it reasonable to expect any festivals to go ahead this year? How different might the festival experience become in the wake of the outbreak? And how have artists and agents responded to the crisis?
We pose all of those questions and more to our guests: Jon Drape, director of Engine No. 4 (Bluedot, Parklife, Snowbombing, Kendal Calling); Jorge Meehan, co-founder of JBM Music (Acropolis, Southern Sunset Festival, Reggae Festivals); Georgie Thorogood, director of Dixie Fields Festival, and Richard Dyer, co-founder of Highest Point Festival and Skiddle.