FESTIVAL ORGANISER chats FESTIVALS & returning to NORMAL with TPD TV! - Melvin Benn

We sit down with the main man himself - MELVIN BENN - Director of Festival Republic and all round live-music LEGEND. We discus returning to normality ahead of the Download Pilot, the science behind a post pand**ic world, Reading & Leeds over the years, and much more. Timestamps below. A huge thanks for Melvin being such a top bloke and giving us some of the time out of his incredibly busy schedule.

Who is Melvin Benn? 1:02 – 2:02
Melvin jokes about us being at Reading “last year” 2:53 – 3:28
How has Melvin’s past year been? 4:11 – 7:40
Talks about how festivals have been hit 4:58 – 7:40
What’s been keeping Melvin Busy? 7:43 – 12:25
“Busier producing nothing, than I have producing something” 8:00 – 8:07
Vaccines/working with medical staff etc
Full capacity plan 8:28 – 12:25
Reading & Leeds (Festivals in general) standard model 14:25 – 15:50
MACHINE GUNS! 16:49
Talking about Jabs/Vaccines 17:30 – 19:12
Safe as going to the supermarket 24:50 – 25:03
Second Batch of tickets? 27:33 – (28:00) – 29:17
R&L Capacity 29:17 - (30:06) – 31:46
The future of R&L and what to expect 30:06 – 31:46
R&L sell out event 32:17 – 33:25
Overall feelings about 2021 33:25 – 35:04
Booking overseas acts & why they’re harder to get 35:04 – 39:04
Brexit 39:06 – 42:15
2 main stages 42:16 – 45:33
Favourite act 45:34 – 47:30
Meeting acts & Biffy Talk 48:45 – 52:41
What genre is R&L? 52:41 – 55:01
ReBalance 55:01 – (1:03:57) – 1:05:20
“Quickfire” questions 1:05:20 – 1:14:00
Who should we look out for? 1:09:28 – 1:10:30
Anymore FR events? 1:10:30 – 1:11:52
Letting off steam 1:12:14 – 1:14:00

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