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There’s Live… and there’s Virtually Live

On a recent trip to London, I set out to look at how live music venues had been affected by two years of intermittent shutdowns. I had expected to find changes, hardships, and closures, and indeed there had been well-known, … Continue reading

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What Makes a Music City?

‘Music City’ is a term that seems to be coming more and more common. Once it might have been used to loosely describe a place that has a good vibe for popular music activity – fun venues, a lively local … Continue reading

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Shows, People and Architecture in Las Vegas

A couple of years ago when I was working on my book Live Architecture, I spent a week in Las Vegas looking at new performance buildings designed by the Canadian company Scéno Plus. Vegas (why is the ‘Las’ left off … Continue reading

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Three gigs in six days (episode 1: The Kazimier)

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to experience three great gigs a few days apart, each in a completely different type of venue, in a very different type of architecture. The venue size increased as the days passed … Continue reading

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