Bido Lito June 2021 Issue 114
June 2021 issue of Bido Lito! magazine. Featuring: PODGE, THE CORAL, CRAWLERS, RON'S PLACE, KATY J PEARSON, SEAGOTH, MONDO TRASHO, LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL AND MUCH MORE. June 2021 issue of Bido Lito! magazine. Featuring: PODGE, THE CORAL, CRAWLERS, RON'S PLACE, KATY J PEARSON, SEAGOTH, MONDO TRASHO, LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL AND MUCH MORE.
LIKE THE FIRST TIME Live music returned to Liverpool after 14 months as part of the government’s Events Research Programme. Elliot Ryder reports back from the shows taking place at Bramley-Moore Dock and Sefton Park and considers what it all means for the 21st June reopening. wild... fucking boss,” responds ZUZU when asked to describe playing to a non-socially distanced “Unbelievable… crowd for the first time in 14 months. Sat behind the 4,000-capacity big top tent at Sefton Park shortly after coming off stage, the magnitude of the occasion is still yet to sink in for the artist given the “honour” of opening proceedings. “I haven’t processed it at all,” she adds. Her face is a mix of happiness and disbelief when recalling the adoration from the tightlypacked bodies just a few metres away. “I didn’t realise how much of an impact live music had on artists’ lives until we couldn’t do it anymore. That first show back was beyond amazing. I’m so, so grateful that we got to do it. I was crying all the way off stage.” Within earshot, Wigan’s THE LATHUMS pick up the baton from Zuzu and rumble into their opener. Later, Stockport’s BLOSSOMS will play to a near-full capacity tent. Today’s event forms part of the government’s events research programme – a series of live events from which data is being collected and monitored in the hope it will inform the roadmap to allowing large scale events and gatherings to return from 21st June. While restrictions are minimal once inside, the events feature a core safeguarding measure for those with a ticket. Everyone on the inside of the festival perimeter walls has had to provide proof of a negative lateral flow test in the last 72 hours. Before arriving, they have been asked to take a PCR test at home, with a second five days after the event. The process doesn’t appear too taxing given the reactions of those in attendance. Making it through the gate, taking off masks and no longer having to adhere to social distancing brings out arguably some of the biggest cheers of the day. The big top tent stands as currently the most liberated bubble in the UK. Many can’t quite believe their luck. The 4,000 descending on Sefton Park aren’t the first crowd of its kind congregating in Liverpool over the weekend. Two days earlier, local promoters and record label Circus are the first to stage a non-socially distanced music event in the UK since the pandemic took hold. Inside the former warehouse at Bramley-Moore Dock, the 3,000-strong crowd are the most exciting import the structure has seen in recent memory. Throughout the afternoon, they’ll be guided by the selections of Liverpool’s own LAUREN LO SUNG and YOUSEF, with international heavyweights JAYDA G, THE BLESSED MADONNA and SVEN VÄTH taking to the decks through the afternoon and evening event. Being back in a large events space made for close contact brings with it a palpable euphoria. Many in attendance take a moment to themselves to stop and look on at a throbbing mass of people dancing towards the front of the crash barrier. The tangible image of people together legally incites the same level of internal ecstasy as when Jayda G hammers out Floorplan’s Never Grow Old. Groups of friends come together and pose to have their photo taken with the backdrop of the crowd akin to a trophy presentation. It’s a fitting reaction here on Merseyside, with the 15-month wait feeling more like the 30-year slog of Liverpool FC in attempting to be back in one’s rightful place – front and centre in the heart of the dance. 26
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