+++UPDATE: How Can The Music Industry Learn From Covid-19 to Become More Sustainable?
In a feature for Stamp The Wax, Katia Mullova explores the lessons we might learn from Covid-19, to create a more environmentally-friendly gig economy and community at large.
As we long for our event spaces to reopen, could this period of lockdown provide an opportunity to evaluate the globalisation of our scene?
“This gives me reason to think it is communal spaces, not flights, that are inextricably linked with the music industry. Shared experience, not fast travel, is the lifeblood of our scene. From an audience perspective, the prospect of returning to more regional scenes with a bigger focus on residencies seems like a gift, just as long as we could all be together in one room again. Finally, as Clean Scene points out, slow gigging “enable[s] deeper cultural and personal connections” between performer, place and crowd.”