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COVID-19 PANDEMIC

I have been a DJ for 20+ years and have relied on that income most of my adult life, unpredictable as it may be. It never made me rich, but I made enough to feed my family and I had a lot of fun doing it. Everything I was booked to play at this summer, including some of the biggest events I been asked to play at in years, was canceled or postponed, no deposits paid on almost everything. Every other musician on the planet is affected, plus anyone else whose income relies on art in some way, that’s performers but also staging, sound, lights, events spaces, event security etc. The list is huge. The lockdown has been extended, the UK government has announced they will not support artists and the creative industry any more as it is viewed as being unnecessary.

Well I thoroughly disagree, all through our lives we have been spoilt for choice for culture and art, and artists have always been made to struggle by a society who think their job is just not as important as say a doctor or a bus driver, the same people who watch TV at night, listen to music and read books everyday. But art is desperately important, it is important for US, the humans. It is important for our souls, for our sanity, for our moods and for our reasons to live & love. Without creative ideas and art we are little more than just machines, going to work, generating taxes, making machines that make work easier and quicker, just to make more taxes and more money and for what? Do you want to bring a new life into a society without art? Without music without books without ideas? Just to rely on the legacy of past creative endeavours and not support any future creative work or thought? To have your life dictated to you by social networks and society “new normals”?

I cannot believe that.

We must support art in every way possible. I will continue to make music I don’t care how hard it gets, we must not stop.

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