British Pop Star Sam Fender on ‘Bonkers’ Experience of Playing U.K.’s First Major Socially Distanced Gigs

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British music star Sam Fender found quite a platform when he played sold-out, back-to-back shows at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle. He found 500 platforms,…

found quite a platform when he played sold-out, back-to-back shows at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle. He found 500 platforms, in fact. The outdoor shows had fans gathering in groups of five in that many elevated pens, for a total capacity of 2,500 on the massive field each night.

I was like, “Of course I’ll do it. I don’t care what capacity we will do this in, in what format. I want to be on a stage with my band playing to some people.” Because I want my job back! I think everyone wants their job back. This is the thing I , yeah. I thought, yeah, so there’s two and a half thousand people in a 30,000-capacity. space This is going to be probably really quiet. But I think they made up for the space with all the pent-up frustration of lockdown. You could hear it in their voices. You could hear people were gasping for the communal spirit of being galvanized by the beautiful sonics of live music. You could feel that in the air, man — people were dying for it.

 

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