One Year On: Industry leaders on the Covid anniversary

A full 12 months into pandemic restrictions, professionals across the business gauge the industry’s health and its state of preparedness for a triumphant restart

Feature By Gordon Masson | 1 March 2021

Even before ILMC in 2020, a number of countries were beginning to shut down when it came to mass gatherings such as concerts and live entertainment, while for many ILMC 32 attendees, the artist showcases that week in London were the last live performances that they witnessed. Talk about the coronavirus, back then, swung between the hope that it was just a new form of flu, to fear that we might have to postpone a month or two of upcoming dates. Certainly, nobody was predicting the loss of a full calendar year of events and the redundancies of countless thousands of industry professionals around the world. Indeed, as the year progressed

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