Spaced-out Barcelona gets its groove on
(WorldNews Music)

In mid-July of this year, I found myself in a situation I could never have predicted six months earlier. Standing at the turnstiles on a warm evening in Barcelona, I was supervised by masked men as a large machine doused my hands in sanitiser. The friendly but slightly tense ticket scanner informed me that my own mask was to be worn at all times. And then he let me in to my first ever socially distanced music festival. I wouldn`t have predicted it two months earlier either. In early May, after the strictest lockdown imposed anywhere in Europe, residents of Barcelona emerged from isolation in their apartments, blinking in the post-Covid sunshine. The city was shorn of tourists, and all the...