As a listener, I have my doubts about how electronic music translates in a live setting. By no means do I practise the mating call of the jazz wanker (“don’t they just press play?”) but I have reservations nonetheless about whether or not a piece of electronic music can retain the spontaneity that gives live music its cathartic power. Perhaps that’s disingenuous: what I’m driving…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
