The relatively new festival boasts a range of musical acts, ranging from new pop to nostalgic bangers. Headlining the ‘UK’s Best Pop Festival’ will be the iconic Cheryl. Becky Hill, Eve, Jimmy Somerville, Gabrielle and Atomic Kitten will also be performing upon one of the festivals 7 stages. Smaller acts include Savage Disco, Absolute., Kiddy Smile and many many more (even a guest appearance from Katie Price!). The Mighty Hoopla have stated ‘This year Mighty Hoopla promises to be bigger and better; the sixth special shindig of all things pop and sparky. It’ll be our greatest edition yet playing host to both the new and the nostalgic in the ultimate spectacular.’

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The 1 day festival embraces diversity and the sense of community, highlighting the best of pop, alt-pop and queer culture. The festival organisers said, ‘Hoopla also provides a focus for emerging and established LGBTQ+ artists, as well as delivering a safe and welcoming event for our diverse audience.’ As well as legendary music acts, the festival will host comedians, vogueing troupes, orchestras and mass karaokes. Lambeth Council have given the go-ahead for the festival to take place on the new, pushed back date – September 4th 2021. They said “ the decision taken by the production team following vaccine roll-out timing reviews and rapid testing” which  “allows a Mighty Hoopla the way it should be – all singing, all dancing.”

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The festival offers free tickets to NHS workers. Mighty Hoopla offered this to NHS workers in 2019, which will rollover to this years event with an added number of free tickets for the key workers. In a statement to The Festivals UK, the ultimate pop event stated, ‘Mighty Hoopla will also be increasing the allocation they annually offer to say a heartfelt thanks for their brave, incredible efforts during this crisis and all year around.’

Tickets for The Mighty Hoopla go on sale today (25th January) with many more acts to be confirmed. Tickets are £49.50 and can be found here.

Dark Waters is the second single released off the group’s forthcoming second album which is still in the process of writing. Prognosis released Into The Grey 3 months ago, along with a music video of its own, however, Dark Waters still appears to be the first song that the new members Cantor and Akoya have contributed to.

Upon discussion of the decision to add new members to Prognosis, founding member Weller noted that 2020 was a shock to the system for every band, but amidst all of this pandemic, changing half of our line-up was something none of us expected. Weller continues on a hopeful note, saying that ultimately though I think the shake up has done us the world of good. We feel revitalised; it felt like the stars aligned for us with Yan and Lewin joining the band. They’re exceptional talents and we feel pretty invincible right now!

Prognosis was forced to cancel all live performances, for which they made their career, due to safety concerns surrounding the current Covid-19 global pandemic. The group has not made any plans to return to the stage in 2021 as of yet, however, they have described this latest single as being incredibly relatable to issues around the pandemic.

When describing Dark Waters, Prognosis stated that lyrically, the song talks about dealing with and reflecting on everything we’ve been through in 2020. The overarching message is one of rebirth; coming through hard times – rising out of dark waters – with a greater strength and self-confidence having survived the experience. And away from the band, we feel it’s something everyone can relate to as we enter the final weeks of a really dire year. We are all emerging from out of dark waters right now.

 

 

 

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Prognosis has not ruled out live shows in 2021 however, stating that of course we’ll be back playing shows when the time comes. We miss live music and we miss our fans, but we’re incredibly excited for the future of this band. With the additions of guitarist Cantor and drummer Akoya, the band looks to the future as they describe their future after Dark Waters saying that behind the scenes we’re using Dark Waters as the cornerstone to our second album, which we are deep into writing.

Dark Waters is available on YouTube in the form of the group’s newest music video and will be available for download and streaming on December 24th, this Thursday. Their first single, minus the new line-up, Into the Grey is available on YouTube and for streaming now. While there are no upcoming tour dates for Prognosis, the band is offering special merchandise deals on their website, found here. 

 

 

 

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