Covid: Creamfields return 'positive news for live music industry'

People who bought tickets in 2020 were refunded or given the chance to transfer them to 2021

The return of Creamfields in the summer is "positive news for the live music industry", organisers have said.

Covid-19 forced the cancellation of the Cheshire-based festival in 2020.

However, organisers said the sold-out Daresbury event would go ahead on August Bank Holiday Weekend if lockdown restrictions were eased as planned.

A spokesman said the upcoming festival, which will see Chase & Status, Eric Prydz and Carl Cox perform, had seen the fastest ever ticket sales.

Creamfields has been at the Daresbury site since 2006

He added that many who bought tickets in 2020 had carried over for the 2021 event and said the festival's return was "positive news for the live music industry, which has largely remained closed over the last 12 months".

The news of tickets selling at Creamfields and Hampshire's Boomtown Fair festival was welcomed by DJ Rob da Bank, who announced his own Camp Bestival event in Dorset would be going ahead in the summer on Thursday.

Creamfields was first held in 1998 in Winchester before moving north, first to Liverpool and then on to the current site at Daresbury in 2006, and has become one of the most prestigious electronic dance music events in the UK.

The news comes after the Reading and Leeds festivals, which are also scheduled for August, also announced they were planning to go ahead.

According to plans announced on Monday, the government hopes to lift all remaining restrictions on social contact by 21 June at the earliest.

This would mean larger events can go ahead and nightclubs can reopen.

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