COVID’s Delta variant has performers, promoters, venues and fans hearing the starts and skips of a broken record. The uncertainty of it all sounds a lot like the music industry’s biggest “hit” of 2020, the one with concert tours scrapped and music venues shuttered. But, it’s 2021. There’s now a...
of tours which are being postponed or cancelled altogether because of the recent uptick in COVID cases here and abroad. Every music fan is seeing these reports from a refresh of the news feed, but Billboard has a comprehensive tally and updates it frequently. The list includes Florida Georgia Line, Nine Inch Nails and the resurgent Limp Bizkit. There’s Deftones, which was once slated for White Oak Music Hall on September 7. According to the venue’s website the show has been pushed to April 2022.
Live Nation announced a “COVID policy update” for Harry Styles’ Love on Tour run today. Ticket holders must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 48 hours of entry to the show in addition to wearing a mask. These precautions will be in place at Styles’ September 13 date at. The release said the venues’ staffs will have to adhere to these protocols which, it notes, “is becoming the new standard for concerts around the US.
“That being said we want to apologize whole heartedly, We felt the weight of the world to get back to “real life” and start touring again. We are realizing now that the world is still very sick and with numbers rising we want to say that we are so, so sorry if we contributed in any way to the sad state of things. Again PLEASE get tested, PLEASE get vaccinated.”One sign of the times is artists, venues and promoters getting proactive to help concerts remain on calendars.
“I don’t know, it looks like we’re going to be dealing with this thing for a long time. We need to try to just get back to why we want to be alive. That’s what I’m trying to get back to, remembering the joy of music and of living life,” Garbus said at the time of our discussion.
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