Will live streaming gigs save the music industry?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Musicians tell us how they are finding innovative ways to get around the pandemic and perform live to their fans.
It's a very real problem - the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz tells Ed Butler of the frustrations of performers like Beverley Knight (pictured) having to perform to half-empty auditoriums in order to ensure social distancing.
Two singer-songwriters tell us the novel methods they've taken up during lockdown. Dent May describes his first live-stream performance from his own home, while Laura Marling put on a live staged performance for a limited ticketed online audience. The brainchild behind Laura's, music promoter Ric Salmon of Drift Live, says he thinks the concept will prove more than just a quick fix for Covid-19.
(Picture: Beverley Knight performing to a live audience at the London Palladium; Credit: Andy Paradise/BBC)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:05.4 | Live music, it's the lifeblood to the soundtrack of our lives. |
| 0:09.8 | But in the pandemic, our live concerts gone for good. |
| 0:13.0 | I had a tour booked for August, September of this year. |
| 0:16.3 | That's obviously not happening. |
| 0:17.6 | I don't know what to think. |
| 0:18.5 | Are these venues even going to exist when touring comes back for artists like myself? The fears of musicians like this one on the show today, |
| 0:25.6 | but are we going to pay instead for live music online? Live music, of course, is going to be one of the |
| 0:31.1 | very last activities that comes back into our lives. This can be a temporary way of generating |
| 0:36.8 | remedies and doing these live |
| 0:38.3 | events in our minds democratizes and globalizes live music. |
| 0:43.2 | That's all to come on Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:48.5 | Bye. |
| 0:53.4 | Lucifer son of the morning, I'm going to chase you out of her. I remember when I was 17 years old in |
| 1:02.2 | going to see Lee Scratch Perry |
| 1:04.8 | who was kind of the pioneer of reggae |
| 1:06.6 | doing a gig and he walked on stage |
| 1:08.8 | with this massive joint and two backing singers. |
| 1:12.2 | It was the most extraordinary, wild, rebellious, intellectual experience I've ever had. |
| 1:20.7 | The words there of the BBC's arts editor, clearly a passionate music fan, Will Gompett, |
| 1:26.5 | reflecting on just some of the joys of watching music live. |
| 1:34.0 | The magic of liveliness is based on human connection. |
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