In this week’s newsletter: Wherever you look there’s a pricey new event – but the majority of the industry isn’t in such rude health
Were you watching live music in a field/city park/stadium/arena/back room of a pub last weekend? If so, you weren’t alone. Wherever you looked there seemed to be a festival or mega-gig blaring away. London alone felt like it might collapse under the force of decibels as a reported one million people went to a gig last week.
I was at Blur for the first of their two Wembley stadium gigs, but you could have taken your pick between The Weeknd, shaking off the stink of The Idol at the Olympic stadium across two nights; The Boss at Hyde Park on Friday and Saturday; Lana Del Rey (making curfew this time), at the same venue on Sunday; the, ahem, delights of Black Eyed Peas and Kaiser Chiefs at Greenwich Summer Sounds; or a bouncing Wireless festival weekend in Finsbury Park featuring Playboi Carti, Travis Scott and Lil Uzi Vert.
