Requests for 2021

I'm really enjoying Jonathan Wilson's new album.

And off the top of my head - from artists who have recently relased stuff: BC Camplight, Jack Sharp (ex Wolf People), Lavinia Blackwall, White Denim, Erland Cooper, Aoife Nessa Francs, Peggy Sue, Brigid Dawson, Mr Ben and the Bens, Jason Isbell, Dana Gavanski, Arbouretum, Sound of Yell, Honey Harper, Seazoo, Cornershop,Frazey Ford, Spinning Coin and for the 'heritage' slot - Matthews Southern Comfort

Yes, EOTR has been cancelled.  inevitable but still sad to hear.

Currently top of my not-seen / wanna-see wishlist are Rose City Band.  They'd be perfect for a mid-afternoon slot (hopefully bright warm sunshine) on the Mountain Stage.  Summerlong maybe my album of the year to date.

Bananagun! A new discovery for me courtesy of the great Shindig magazine. Aussie tropicala-psych-surf-pop. Wonderful. Another sunny mid afternoon slot on the main stage.

Has anyone else seenBright Eyes 'confirmed' for GM 2021, apart from Quietus magazine?  No mention on their webpage tour schedule but, if they are appearing it will be pretty hectic for them travelling between Germany and Czech Republic on adjacent days.  Ever the optimist but sadly cannot see it happening 

The absolute find of GM 2018 for us.

New album out on July 24, sounding bloody lovely.

She is livestreaming a gig on July 22 - https://www.songkick.com/live-stream-concerts/39600127-courtney-marie-andrews

And I see from her website that she's in the UK next June.....(doesnt show any gigs later than that)

Any chance???

Hadn't seen that but will check it out.

Went on to youtube yesterday to watch some of her GM set. Lasted about 30 seconds, felt too sad to watch any more.

I had no expectations when we saw her in 2018 - then iistened to almost nothing else for the next 6 weeks. 

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I'm still optimistic enough to give us a one in two chance...

how quick can the vaccine be rolled out on a mass scale? And if/when that still leaves some rate of infection, rather than quickly eradicating it completely, what rate is an ok rate to resume 'normal life' and what restrictions will stay?

And how far in advance of August will Fiona and co have to make a decision?? nightmare scenario is them  having to make a call to cancel (May?) and then by August the state of things is such that it could have gone ahead ok... 

but I paid the campervan deposit a fortnight ago and am feeling bullish. for now 

Also very much hoping you are wrong!  According to the app's default settings, I'll get vaccinated sometime in Feb (age for once having some benefit), but I don't believe that for a second.  However, I'm still optimistic for late summer festivals, two of which I still have this year's tickets carried over.

Well my old dad (83 with, of course, underlying health issues) has been told he won't be getting his jabs until well into the new year.

So we should anticipate some extreme bullshittery from this venal/incompetent government regarding rate of vaccine roll out, just like test and trace numbers... and in fact anything else.

That link concluded I'd be eligible for my jab at any time between March and May, a quarter of a year, which strikes me as being a wide window to make any informed predictions. 

I suppose it also depends on people making sensible choices which, if the photos of unmasked crowds queuing outside the Trafford Centre yesterday are to be believed, many are incapable.

We could be stuck with this virus for a long time.

Being together at Green Man in 2021 is very important for my family but to be honest I'll be very surprised if it comes off.

Bearded Theory are having a meeting next month to discuss whether next year's festival needs to be cancelled or delayed,that's a couple of months before GM but will be interesting to see the decision.If we take the vaccinations as accurate it would still mean only about 1 in 10 over 80s at best will have had the jab--we just need Oxford Vaccine to be ok and mass vaccinations to begin and even then it must be iffy about slot of festivals.

Actually, if that calculator is anything like accurate, most over-50s will have been vaccinated (May for me) so even if the kids haven't been they can't pass it on to us so w're OK! All anti-vaxxers banned of course. From everything. 

The timelines will shift as other vaccines get approved. I don;t know what is up with your Dad, Elizabeth. Is it the local distribution? Lots of GP surgeries have opted out. Some new facilities have been built for throughput (you have to hang around for 30 mins after to make sure no reaction, not easy  to do when you dont want people (the vaccinated and those bringing their elders to be vaccinated) mixing! I expect it is more those sort of concerns rather than simple priority. Of course, others who do not raise such concerns will be getting vaccinated now i.e. those in homes. Can knock one of them off in a morning! 

The Government is saying there could be 2m vaccinations given per week, which would change the predicted dates on the omni calculator significantly- if only the government can get it right for a change!   We might get it sooner if there is a lower take up but that is going to be a disaster.  get the vaccine and make me wait a bit longer!

as far as getting back to normality is concerned, when the vaccines start getting rolled out with good take up across all the world is when we can start to think we are really over this awful virus.

Happy New Year all. Think I'm even less optimistic than most of you. Even if the vaccination programme procedes really quickly, there's still the fact that it'll take some time for herd immunity to work, and if travel continues to be allowed to and from countries where vaccination has been slower, there'll continue to be covid outbreaks for some time.

I think the only way it could work is for some sort of "vaccine passport" system so that entry could be limited to people who can clearly prove they're vaccinated. That would need to be highly secure and ideally backed up by testing on entry. If I worked in the festival industry I'd be working hard pushing government to bring in that sort of scheme before the summer. 

Agree with those who said it's been much harder to get excited about new stuff this last year. Love the Hen Ogledd album, though. Also finally got round to listening to Bill Callahan's latest this week, which was really impressive.

And I was bought a gorgeous Green Man Forever poster for Chirstmas, which will be on my wall as soon as my local framing shop is open again :)

Found this petition, started by Tim Brennan of the Dropkick Murphy’s. Whatever you think about Brexit and this Government, we still need them to negotiate touring for musicians etc to be viable through Europe (in both directions).  I am sure there are plenty of European acts we want to encourage rather than discourage coming to the UK and playing at GM21 (fingers crossed)

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/563294

I think its a difficult one,it's going to depend how many festivals across Europe go ahead,i'm only guessing but i imagine a lot of bands play multiple festivals to make touring worthwhile.