By Interviews by Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes
From singers to a record shop owner and a festival organiser: people in the music business on their struggles in a time of crisis
There isn’t a single part of the music industry that won’t be affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The most obvious are the high profile festival cancellations like Glastonbury and Coachella, and the big stars who are having to postpone tours. But beneath them there is an entire infrastructure of aspiring musicians, session players, sound engineers, booking agents, record shop owners, DJs, labels, tour managers, event staff and more whose livelihoods are at risk with venues closing their doors, and with Boris Johnson saying venues can stay open but advising people to stay away, fear in the industry quickly turned to anger. We spoke to a few people whose lives have been turned upside down in less than a week.
Source: ‘I’m trying to keep the panic down’ – the coronavirus impact on music
Category: Music, Pop and rock, Country, Indie, Music industry, Business, Culture
