Melvin Benn: ‘I’m very optimistic about 2021’
After staging digital editions of Download and Wireless this summer, the FR chief says he expects European festivals to be "back in full force" next year
Feature By IQ | 16 July 2020
Amid a challenging summer 2020, Festival Republic is feeling “incredibly optimistic” about next year’s European festival season, managing director Melvin Benn has said.
Speaking to IQ, Benn says Festival Republic (FR) – whose festival portfolio includes the UK’s Download, Wireless and Reading/Leeds Festivals, Germany’s Lollapalooza Berlin and the Republic of Ireland’s Electric Picnic – is working to the assumption that its open-air events will “be back in full force next summer”, most likely after the release of a vaccine…