With the Covid-19 Vaccine being administered to more and more people by the day, and the pandemic starting to look like it has an end in sight. A lot of music lovers are asking the question, ‘when will we be able to go to festivals?’. Earlier this month festival heads and Matt Hancock, the UK Health Secretary, have made it clear that they all hope and believe that we will be able to observe and summer of music and festivals as they hope for the pandemic to be under control by Easter of 2021.
Normally this is great news, and for intense and purposes its is! However, fans of Sir Paul McCartney woke up this morning to the news that McCartney doesn’t think he will be a headline act at next year’s (2021) Glastonbury. This is certainly a sad piece of news for fans as McCartney has been somewhat of a staple of the festival and was planned for a headline show this year before the pandemic hit “I should have been rehearsing for my shows, culminating in Glastonbury, and suddenly all of that was knocked out, so I was able to do some recording.”
The former Beatle explains that he feels that despite there being a vaccine, places like festivals and large shows (or crowds that arent his immediate family) may not be safe “100,000 people closely packed together with flags and no masks, you know, talk about superspreader. I’d love it to be, but I have a feeling it’s not going to be.”. Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis has stated that they hope Glastonbury will be safe and they are doing all they can to make sure of it “We’re doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare, but I think we’re still quite a long way from being able to say we’re confident 2021 will go ahead.”
McCartney may feel like festivals aren’t safe, but he has made it clear he wants to set an example by getting the vaccine as soon as it is possible. During the lockdown, McCartney has been writing music for the sequel to his two former solo albums ‘McCartney’ and ‘McCartney II’. The new ‘McCartney III’ which was delayed till today (18/12/2020) “I was just making music purely for me that no one really was going to hear, except me and my family. I thought of ‘McCartney I and II’. I’d played all the instruments on those, which put this in the same class, so this should be McCartney III. I’d found a place for it.”
#McCartneyIII. The new album, out now. Get it here: https://t.co/8UPtDfPijp by @maryamccartney pic.twitter.com/BSFO1S4sSK — Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) December 18, 2020
Aside from his own Album, McCartney also teamed up with his former Beatle Ringo Starr as a featured vocalist on his soon to be released EP ‘Zoom In’. Even if he may not be seen at Glastonbury in 2021, fans can get a whole lot of McCartney right now! ‘McCartney III’ Is available to download, buy, and stream today.
