A music festival is set to take place in Wisconsin next month designed to give people immunity against the novel coronavirus. As live concerts are canceled across the world, a three-day ‘Herd Immunity Fest’ has been scheduled to take place in Ringle from July 16 to July 18, The event will take place outdoors at … Read more
A family have recreated Glastonbury in their garden after the coronavirus pandemic saw the festival cancelled. Fiona Rees, 50, husband Matt, 43, and 11-year-old son Dylan, from Worcestershire, are huge fans of the event and were ‘gutted’ when it was called off due to the crisis. However, with the help of Fiona’s father, Colin Stent, 67, … Read more
Vroom, vroom! Motor racing has witnessed some breath-taking comebacks, none more extraordinary than when the late, great Niki Lauda roared off the grid at the Italian Grand Prix just six weeks after he’d been given the last rites following a catastrophic crash at the Nurburgring. This time, I can disclose, it’s the turn of the … Read more
1970 With the cancellation of this year’s festival, it is a good time to look back at the very first Glastonbury Festival, which was a singularly ramshackle affair, taking place on a single, rather cramped platform, The Coffee-Table Stage. That first festival was an uneasy mix of old and new. Joint masters of ceremonies were … Read more
There can be few better holiday moments than the sight of one’s children screaming in terror as explosions light the air all around, followed by an evacuation sequence that brings to mind Saving Private Ryan. It had started tamely enough. While spending a week at the Vilanova Park campsite, about 30 miles south of Barcelona, … Read more
You may be missing the summer party and festival scene this summer, as the majority of events have been cancelled due to coronavirus. But a festival doesn’t just mean standing in front of a stage with a big crowd, and can equally be about relaxing and getting comfortable with friends and family while enjoying barbecue … Read more
There is growing fury over the decision to hand control of the NHS‘ Track and Trace programme to a Tory MP’s wife also on the executive committee that allowed 260,000 people to attend the Cheltenham Festival days before lockdown began. Dido Harding sits on the board of the Jockey Club, the organisers of the world-famous horse racing … Read more
Hay Festival booms online as fans from more than 60 nations around the world tune in to events after it was axed amid coronavirus crisis The Hay Festival of literature was cancelled for the first time due to coronavirus The 33-year-old annual event normally takes place in Hay-on-Wye in Wales The festival did appear in a … Read more
Glastonbury Festival’s cancelled weekend to be honoured with special BBC show looking at past legendary sets after its 50th anniversary was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis By Olivia Wheeler For Mailonline Published: 21:21 BST, 26 May 2020 | Updated: 21:45 BST, 26 May 2020 Glastonbury Festival weekend is set to be honoured on the … Read more
A consultant working in intensive care has described the decision to let two Stereophonics gigs go ahead at the start of the coronavirus outbreak as ‘downright insane’. David Hepburn, who made the comment on Twitter, works at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport – which has seen one of the highest coronavirus infection rates in … Read more