TRNSMT organisers are still optimistic the Scots festival will still go ahead this year despite news of Glastonbury’s cancellation.
The festival has been pencilled in to take place at Glasgow Green in July - seven months after stay at home restrictions were imposed in Scotland as the coronavirus crisis rages on.
However, TRNSMT 2021 cancellation fears have grown today after it was announced Glastonbury Festival has been shelved for a second year in a row.
Scots punters are already able to buy tickets for the event, which will see the likes of Lewis Capaldi, Oasis star Liam Gallagher and Snow Patrol descend on the Glasgow park.
And festival director Geoff Ellis remains positive that the summer event will still go ahead.
He said that fans will find out if the festival has been cancelled by early March.
Mr Ellis told the Daily Record: “Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, that it's unable to go ahead this year.
“By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the Government and remain positive about events later in the summer.”
He added: “With the effective roll out of the vaccine across the country, there is reason to be optimistic but as the government have always said, it is too early for them to say when current restrictions on events might be lifted and we respect that.
“We will continue to provide updates to all the TRNSMT fans when we have them, most likely early March.”
Music promoters and events organisers have hopes that 2021 will be the year that large events will be allowed to take place in Scotland once again.
But the cancellation of Glastonbury Festival will be seen as a set back to industry chiefs and fans alike.
Glasto organisers Michael and Emily Eavis said that they ‘moved heaven and earth’ in their efforts to get this year’s event on, but admitted defeat in a statement released earlier today.
They said: “With great regret we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and this will be another enforced fallow year for us.
“We are so sorry to let you all down.”
