The Death of Spontaneity: How the Loss of Grassroots Live Music Venues is the decline of Our Culture
After reading two articles in the Guardian just published one by John Harris and the other by Giles Patterson I find myself wholeheartedly agreeing with them. As I observe the UK, we are heading towards a world where any live shows we find are the ones which are efficiently organised and booked with the most sterilised of musics. I mean the type of top tier performances where they are asking big cash in advanced for a live event, and that leave nothing to chance. The grassroots are being erased from existence in clubland, and we are forced indoors behind our screens where Tik-Tok and Instagram help us to find any given new music champion. Small venues, pubs, bars, and nightclubs are closing doors and being eliminated systematically. This is a slow degrading of our culture and society as those dives, backroom clubs, and dingy places, were always the places where random music experiences happened - but this not just the loss of a venue. We are on the merry go wrong where the serendi