Niall Horan says touring road crews have been forgotten by government

As venues and arts organisations celebrated their government grants designed to keep them afloat until next spring, touring crews were among those counting the cost of the pandemic.

One Direction’s Niall Horan should have been in Warsaw and Berlin this week on his Nice To Meet Ya Tour, but the Covid-19 crisis saw his gigs cancelled and his road crew without income on which they were depending.

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