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Covid: Frank Turner livestream gigs for struggling venues return
By Oliver Wright
BBC News

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image captionFrank Turner performed to a socially distanced audience at the Clapham Grand in July 2020
Music venues across England have remained largely silent for the past nine months after the coronavirus pandemic forced them to close their doors. As the unwanted anniversary of a year without live music approaches for some, musician Frank Turner is once again picking up his guitar to help.

"If you had told me back in March last year," says Frank Turner, "that this issue was going to go on for this long I would have been very depressed."

The folk-punk singer has played more than 2,500 gigs in his 15-year solo career and sold out venues across the world, including Wembley Arena.

But he has also performed in scores of small independent venues and credits each one with getting him to where he is.

So when amplifiers and microphones fell silent in 2020, he livestreamed 14 free gigs from his home in aid of those venues, raising nearly £200,000 in donations.

"The bottom line is that venues have not been able to open their doors," says Turner.

"They've not been able to sell tickets, they've not been able to sell alcohol to punters, and therefore their business model remains completely on ice."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55634508

 

Going to a show tonight

 

Anyone decent? Take it that it's an NZ band? My last gig was March 3rd last year - Editors.

 

Like this one

 

LIVE RUST – WELLINGTON
JANUARY 15 @ 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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Back by popular demand, LIVE RUST featuring Liam Finn, Jon Toogood, Delaney Davidson, Tami Neilson, Sam Flynn Scott, James Milne, Brett Adams, Dianne Swann and many more, hits the stage in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland this week.

This supergroup in various incarnations will perform Neil Young’s epic Live Rust – track by track, back to back along with a selection of classic hits and deep cuts.With full scale production, sound and staging – New Zealand, it’s time to rock out!

Classic Hits & Deep Cuts
With sold out shows and rave reviews from last year’s tour, this album is to be the first in the concert trilogy.
Performed in its entirety with a bonus set of NY classics spanning Buffalo Springfield to Crazy Horse by a supergroup of some of NZ’s finest musicians – Jon Toogood, Liam Finn, Samuel Flynn Scott, SJD, Delaney Davidson, Mel Parsons, Dianne Swann, Brett Adams, Jol Mulholland, Michael Barker, Matthias Jordan.

Bridging solo acoustic jewels and explosive electrical storm, Live Rust sold platinum in the USA, but only in New Zealand did it reach #1, spending a staggering 50 weeks in the charts.

 

Enjoy - we saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse a few years ago, belting gig.

 

Good to see you posting again fella

 

Shhhh
Don't scare him off

 

There's two good reasons this has gone totally viral - bet you can't guess what they are

 

Just pre-ordered the new Mogwai album, and was having a cruise around to see what else was about, and came across this wee bargain...



WTF!!! Now, I love my music but **** me that's another level - and they have the cheek to try and charge you for delivery on top of that!