One Summer Dream
“It’s been a ballache,” sighs Huw Lloyd-Jones, singer with Also Eden and one half of the longtime organisational team behind the UK’s much-loved prog festival, Summer’s End. “We lost every single overseas band, with the exception of one. We even lost UK-based bands who had members who lived overseas.”
While the return of Summer’s End Progressive Rock Festival to the gig calendar has given its organisers some relief, it’s safe to say holding a festival against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic has also given them a whole new heap of organisational headaches.
“I think the single biggest difficulty is we haven’t known what’s happening,” explains Lloyd-Jones. “Day to day, we haven’t known what the rules are going to be. Until a couple months ago we didn’t even know if we’d be allowed to run. Right up until two or three days ago, we thought we were finally on the home stretch, [when] the Welsh Assembly announced that venues must ask for Covid passports. Thank goodness we slipped through the net because we’re under 500 capacity and the rules aren’t going to come through until later. But just for those first
