Music fans to socially distance in COVID-safe ‘pods’ at Adelaide’s Summer Sounds Festival

Golf buggies delivering drinks and metal pens instead of mosh pits are not typical features of rock concerts — but will be crucial additions at the first major music festival held in Adelaide since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

After months of negotiations with SA Health, organisers of the Summer Sounds Festival have been granted permission to stage the three-week event in Bonython Park.

Artists such as Lime Cordiale, Ruel, Ball Park Music, Mallrat and Ocean Alley feature on the festival’s line-up, which will be headlined by Bernard…