TWITCHING The post-viral gig has no live audience

CV-19 is chewing up and spitting out the blackened hulk of live music culture like a Texan cowpoke with a hunk of chewing tobacco.

There have been various responses to a scenario that robs musicians of their main means of making a living (including the flogging of merch at these gigs). Nothing to do with the industry, but I loved the Italian guy blasting out the Angel of Death riff to a bewildered elderly neighbour from his balcony.

Just a tad more pertinent than that stupendous Slayer simulacrum (a tricky triple sibilance one that) is the ingenious effort of a metal band with a sold out venue for their album launch - with all ticket holders now barred.

So, they set up 6 cameras with Ethernet ports hooking them directly to an editing board and broadcast live on gaming platform Twitch to 13,000 frustrated metalheads, a total 30,000 viewing the performance within a day, and a YouTube upload imminent.

So, CV-19 could be the grim big-R to much of the music industry, especially at the Indie and self-distributing end, but these guys exemplified the there's always a way attitude that is an outlook worth looking at.. 

My chapeau is doffed to these resilient gents.

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/code-orange-metal-streaming-twitch/