Lockdown hasn’t just killed live music, it’s stopped the next generation of would-be musicians from forming a band and jamming together.
As stages have fallen silent, so too have hundreds of rehearsal spaces for countless bands that rely on being in the same room.
Instead, a proliferation of online gigs have been a creative outlet for artists and entertained fans at home. Solo artists in particular have turned to technology to stream shows. And he's upbeat about the future. Bands yet to break out of the rehearsal space should use this enforced downtime to get creative juices flowing, he says."There’s no pressure, you don’t have to be in the garage to come up with those ideas but it’s back in the garage they can bloom," he said. "The whole band doesn’t have to shut down … you can still work on your ideas knowing that when the band gets back together, it’s going to be a whole lot more fun.
"It's like we're all stuck in a crappy waiting room with crappy old magazines and wondering when this will end," Hooper said. "The main thing is to not drop the creativity but to go into planning mode, which is what I've been doing.
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