Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and The Strokes were due to headline Organisers behind NOS Alive, due to take place in early July, have announced that the festival is all but certain not to take place this year.
Following the Portuguese government’s announcement that live events will not be able to take place in the country until October 1, organisers Everything Is New shared a statement in both English and Portuguese. “NOS Alive Festival, together with the other promoters of of music festivals, learned today of the approval of the proposed law, to be approved by the Assembly of the Republic […] which establishes exceptional and temporary measures to respond to the pandemic of the disease COVID-19 within the scope of cultural