»There seem to be two categories of musicians, those who have side jobs and those who lie.«
The image of an artist is a complex one. On one hand there is the glitz and glamour of the globetrotting touring artist with an aspirational lifestyle and social media presence to boot, and on the other, the moonlighting creative who is struggling to pay their rent. And then an increasingly diminishing group of those who fall somewhere in-between. Alessandro Pilo investigates the situation in Italy where he speaks to several figures from the local music scene who grapple with the disastrous effects of the Covid pandemic on the live music industry.
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