Liverpool pilot paves the way to post-COVID nightlife

To prepare for venues to reopen, the City of Liverpool is hosting two nightclub events next week as part of a scientific experiment under the national Events Research programme (ERP). Nightclubs in the UK have been closed since March 2020 under COVID restrictions.

The First Dance will host 6,000 clubbers across two days at the Bramley-Moore Dock warehouse in an event which requires no social distancing or mask-wearing.

The ERP is being used to provide scientific data into how events for a range of audiences could be permitted to safely reopen as part of England’s roadmap out of lockdown, scheduled for no earlier than June 21. The review will inform how venues and events could operate f...