The UK’s first major open-air concert offers a look at what’s likely to become the norm – venues divided into small groups, allowing fans to rock without rolling the COVID-19 dice.
Sam Fender performed for 2,500 people at the Virgin Money Unity Arena in Newcastle on Tuesday night … marking what is thought to be the country’s first socially distant entertainment gathering since coronavirus restrictions.
Take a look … the set-up of the outdoor venue includes 500 separate seats with metal barricades, which are for groups of 5 to attend and watch the show.
Messages are sold out immediately, and photos and videos of the Fender concert let the crowd cheer and sing along … responsibly from their own sections.
This is of course in stark contrast to careless concert-goers in American packing places to see Travel hunt in Tennessee, The chain makers in new York, an EDM party by Lake of the Ozarks and most … to see Tech N9ne in Missouri and Smash Mouth at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Fender’s concert is the first of many more planned in coming weeks – Van Morrison en Maximo Park shows are coming up – and are expected to implement similar COVID precautionary measures.
