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ith the live music industry still in tatters due to the ongoing affects of the pandemic, the immediate future for festivals looked pretty grim as summer began to peep over the horizon. Various small festivals had taken place across the UK during 2020 and 2021 so far, but they were largely intimate, independent affairs, often having to follow strict guidelines and feeling a world away from the festival experiences we’d all grown used to. The idea of a fully-fledged fest filled with a few