My ten-day isolation period was up a few days ago now and I am finally able to get back out there and interview!
Today I ventured on campus into the radio studio to speak to Katy Minter. Katy's relevance to the project is to give the audience an insight into how newer artists, who rely on grassroots music venues are feeling with regards to the future of the venue industry.
Without venues to perform at, how can artists network and become more well-known to a wider audience? That's exactly what I asked Katy.
In her final year of her music degree at Birmingham University, Katy is one of many artists navigating her way through live-streams as a means of performing, from her family home in Cornwall. This was an interesting point to touch on in the interview, as Sriracha People (Katy's university-formed band), have had its members spread across the country since the pandemic forced many students out of university accommodation back in March.
The band had to get creative in order to put together online-content for their audience throughout the first lockdown, by recording their parts separately and editing them all together to mirror a cohesive performance.
Katy was a great interviewee as her delivery of her response on the matter was very thorough and really delved in to the emotional consequences of having to move their band online throughout the UK lockdowns.
You can listen to Katy's full interview on the LISTEN page of the blog, to see what she had to say about the effect of Covid-19 on the grassroots music industry.
