Stars must now be booked so far in advance for events that organisers can only guess who will sell tickets in two years’ time

Nobody in 2023 would have guessed that Sabrina Carpenter or Chappell Roan would be festival headliners in 2025, or that the Foo Fighters’ rumoured summer tour would not go ahead after Dave Grohl became the father of a baby girl born “outside of [his] marriage”.

But despite the unpredictable side of the music industry, live events are being organised further and further in advance.