Festival Republic joins Government pilot programme with new festival headlined by Blossoms
Festival Republic joins Government pilot programme with a live gig to trial the safe return of fans
Sefton Park is to play host to a brand new music festival as part of the national Events Research Programme (ERP)
Sefton Park Pilot will take over a small area of the Grade 1 listed historic park on Sunday 2 May, with one of the hottest indie bands of the moment taking to the stage.
On the line-up are chart topping band Blossoms, BBC 6 Music-championed The Lathums and Liverpool singer-songwriter Zuzu.
Doors will open from 4.30pm and as this event is part of a scientific experiment, tickets can only be purchased by Liverpool City Region residents.
Once through the gates, gig-goers will not have to wear face coverings or maintain social distancing as this forms part of the research on the transmission of Covid-19 in an outdoor, music festival setting.
Produced by Festival Republic, tickets ar onsale now priced £29.50. Only one ticket can be purchased per person.
Drink and food concessions will be available onsite.
In order to be eligible for a ticket for this event you must be:
Over 18
Living in the Liverpool City Region and registered to a local GP
Healthy and showing no sign of Covid-19 symptoms
You cannot attend this event if you:
Have been advised that you are clinically vulnerable
Are shielding, or someone you live with is shielding
Are pregnant
Tickets and full terms and conditions can be found here.
Scientific Research
The ERP will be used to provide key scientific data into how events for a range of audiences could be permitted to safely reopen as part of the roadmap out of lockdown, commencing no earlier than June 21.
The review will be crucial to how venues and events could operate this summer.
For the Sefton Park Pilot, scientists are looking to see if and how crowds mixing outdoors increases the risk of transmission of Covid-19.
Ticketholders will have to take a Lateral Flow Test at a community testing site 24 hours before the event and will have to produce a negative result to gain entry. This test has to be taken at one of the city’s community testing sites located here.
As part of the research element of the programme, those attending will be urged to take an at-home PCR test on the day of the event and five days afterwards to ensure any transmission of the virus is properly monitored. This is a non-mandatory but important part of the event research data requested by the scientists.
Vaccine passports are not part of Liverpool’s pilot events programme.
