Boomtown Festival, which in the past sold its 66,000 ticket allocation, was cancelled again for this year, raising the lack of COVID-19 insurance as the reason.
However, there is optimism in the industry, and major occasions such as the Reading and Leeds Festival and the Isle of Wight are expected to take place.
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) is now asking the government to introduce such an insurance plan, saying that waiting until after June 21 will be too late.
DCMS committee chairman and conservative MP Julian Knight said: “Music festivals have been treated like the deficient father through government.
“Despite their enormous economic and cultural contribution, few have benefited from the Culture Revival Fund, and without our efforts, the sector would have been excluded from the pilot occasion programme on the return of the public. “
Festival Republic will host a pilot occasion in the same old download in Derbyshire location, which will allow another 10,000 people to camp and enjoy 3 days of music.
Knight added: “It has been very transparent to us that the vast majority of music festivals do not have the ability to recover money to cover the year’s prices for overdue cancellations.
“If the position of the advertising insurance market does not intervene, ministers will have to, and urgently: the occasions will now have to know whether or not the government will do them or simply not take a stand this year.
“We reiterate our call on the government to announce an insurance plan for canopy organizers if occasions should be cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions that continue beyond June 21.
“There’s still time to play music, there’s no more room for excuses. “
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The emergence of the Indian variant of COVID-19 has cast new doubts about the proposed reopening date on 21 June in England, and the instances begin to multiply.
Concerns about the lack of money for festivals were shared through the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), with its executive leader, Paul Reed, telling Sky News: “It is a massive threat to any independent festival to engage in reimbursable fees and very difficult to plan confidently in the absence of insurance.
“The average cost of creating an independent festival is more than 6 million pounds.
“A recent survey of FIA members found that 92. 5% of respondents do not plan to organize their events without any government-backed insurance or compensation, as the measure is described as important and not optional. “