Live music is therapy you can dance to. I need it back in my life | Rick Burin

Four months into lockdown, streamed shows and Spotify don’t cut it any more. Like so many, I ache for the catharsis of a gigIt is 11 days before lockdown, and bubblegum punk-pop is pouring from the speakers in the top room of a north London pub. Nineties indie heroes Helen Love are on stage, and you wouldn’t mistake them for anyone else. Music is so many things, but here it is a time machine: I’m 12 again, in the car with my dad, and the band’s acerbic, absurdist Girl About Town has just crashed into John Peel’s Festive Fifty, turning us into instant fans. Related: UK public wary of live music as industry calls for £50m rescue package Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/17/live-music-therapy-lockdown-streamed-shows-spotify-gig #music #culture #pop_and_rock #coronavirus_outbreak #uk_news