Geoff Ellis, chief executive of DF Concerts and director of Glasgow’s TRNSMT festival, said Scotland was at risk of losing “world-class events” completely if First Minister Nicola Sturgeon failed to deliver a road map for reviving festivals and concerts in line with Boris Johnson’s decision.
He has called for the government to pledge to lift all social distancing restrictions once the vaccine roll-out has been completed, warning it would take Scotland’s events sector years, or possibly a generation, to recover if they were kept in place indefinitely.