When I'm not working for the NHS, I'm a gig photographer. As nice as it sounds (and as amazing an opportunity as it would be), I don't go to stadiums or arenas every week to shoot Metallica/Foo Fighters/Pink Floyd etc. I shoot up-and-coming Rock and Metal acts that gig across the North West of England for this very website (run by people not only very passionate about live Rock and Metal music …
Read MoreIf you read the comments on Facebook regarding the few festivals that are left, you will see that opinions divide neatly into two camps: those desperate for the events to go ahead and those weary of ever again being within two meters of another human being. This split is also evident in national research on how the general public view the potential return to some form of normality. On Radio Five this morning, they hypothesised that if Coronavirus stuck around for years to come, there could develop a real suspicion of social mixing that would intrinsically change the way that we operate as human beings. This has led me to mulling over how this will affect live music.
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