This is going to be disastrous for music venues and cultural spaces over this winter if it continues. These places rely on bar take to turn a profit and if people are buying tickets but aren’t turning up.. I’m not sure what the solution is.
Anecdotally, I have friends that work in theatre here in London and some shows are really struggling to even shift the tickets in the first place right now, and have been right through autumn.
Government: How about we just close all venues instead, no furlough.
lol I like how people are downvoting the thread because they are begging for a lockdown
I’ve bailed on some gigs recently, as much as I love live music and have missed it dearly, I really don’t fancy catching COVID. Especially right now being so close to Christmas, don’t want to risk fucking it up for myself or others via isolations.
It’s tough, I want to support the venues but it’s just not worth the risk IMO.
I work in events and I’m already losing money from cancellations and have clients be slow/reluctant to properly contract or confirm things for next year as we don’t know
Its sad but im not sure what the answer is, going to a gig isn’t worth the likelihood of catching covid for me. If the government spent the summer planning for this and making infrastructure changes to have ventilation systems in venues then it might be different but here we are.
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This is going to be disastrous for music venues and cultural spaces over this winter if it continues. These places rely on bar take to turn a profit and if people are buying tickets but aren’t turning up.. I’m not sure what the solution is.
Anecdotally, I have friends that work in theatre here in London and some shows are really struggling to even shift the tickets in the first place right now, and have been right through autumn.
Government: How about we just close all venues instead, no furlough.
lol I like how people are downvoting the thread because they are begging for a lockdown
I’ve bailed on some gigs recently, as much as I love live music and have missed it dearly, I really don’t fancy catching COVID. Especially right now being so close to Christmas, don’t want to risk fucking it up for myself or others via isolations.
It’s tough, I want to support the venues but it’s just not worth the risk IMO.
I work in events and I’m already losing money from cancellations and have clients be slow/reluctant to properly contract or confirm things for next year as we don’t know
Its sad but im not sure what the answer is, going to a gig isn’t worth the likelihood of catching covid for me. If the government spent the summer planning for this and making infrastructure changes to have ventilation systems in venues then it might be different but here we are.