‘I hope we all now realise how special live music is’: stars on pop’s future after coronavirus

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Festivals are cancelled, livestreams thriving – so how can music recover? Jack Garratt, Ella Eyre, Sara Quin and more talk gigs, hits and togetherness

Like many other aspects of life, the music industry has been changed, possibly permanently, by the coronavirus pandemic. There have been predictions of financial meltdown and of venue closures on a vast scale; suggestions that now is the moment for streaming services to change the way they pay musicians; even arguments that pop music in lockdown provides a model for how the music business should be: more creatively free, more resourceful, less reliant on touring.

 

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Hmmm is was thinking the opposite

We do, we all just got sick of ticketmaster and LiveNationUK facilitating scalping/gouging and ripping us off at every turn.

None of them play an instrument just blew a music producer to get where they are.

It always has been hence Festivals. Pity about the ticket prices for Live though

Why do they all together look like mugshots of a child trafficking ring.

Was live music thought to be not special?

Live local/regional music IS special. Lip-synced pop live can stay gone forever.

Its mostly shit, tbh

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