Together in Electric Streams: Inside the business of livestreaming
One of the few businesses thriving in the current pandemic, livestreaming has become a vital go-between for fans and the music industry. Derek Robertson investigates
Feature By | 30 April 2020
Here’s a great pop-quiz question: can you name the first ever artist to perform live online? Zooropa-era U2, perhaps, with the band’s prescient satirisation of a dystopian technological future and the emptiness of consumer culture?
Or the Rolling Stones, who rode 1994’s Voodoo Lounge – a ragged and glorious return to their rock and roll roots – around the world for 13 months, raking in an astonishing US$320 million?
Or maybe it was Brian Eno, a technological and conceptual pioneer who,…
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