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The post-peak Twilight Zone: A defining cultural trend of uncertainty

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Hanna Kahlert
It has been eight months since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic which has created an unprecedented global socio-economic crisis. As Wuhan residents are beginning to attend music festivals once more and UK consumers are incentivised to uplift their local restaurants with the “eat out to help out” scheme, it is beginning to look like the worst may be over and our ‘new normal’ has begun.
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Streaming’s remuneration model cannot be ‘fixed’

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Mark Mulligan
Music
Streaming
remuneration
The #brokenrecord debate continues to build momentum and new models such as user-centric are getting increased attention, including at governmental level in the UK. But as Mat Dryhurst correctly observes , there is a risk of the market falling into streaming fatalism; that the obsession with trying to fix a model that might not be fixable distracts us from focusing on trying to build alternative futures.
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Return of the fan: COVID-19 thwarts fan pilot sporting events amid regional spikes in cases

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Alistair Taylor
Video
Sports
Games
Just when sports fans thought it was safe to go back into the water, COVID reared its ugly head once more. UK fan pilot sporting events were all set to start allowing fans back into arenas and attend live events, but government restrictions have now been re-imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus, crippling any chances of normality resuming in the near-term.
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Has live streaming suddenly become music's primary format (and artist revenue stream)?

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Keith Jopling
It seems like the longer Covid 19 hangs around, the more desperate the live music business starts to sound. In a telling recent interview with Bob Lefsetz, Marc Geiger made his view clear that not next year but 2022 will be the year the live music business can truly come back to life ‘as normal’ (and, given pent-up demand by then, possibly bigger than ever for the venues and promoters still on the scene).
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