16 December

The battle between gig culture and Covid can only have one winner. Ariana Grande has cancelled all her touring for 2025. (She contracted Covid filming Wicked.) Maria Carey has just had to cancel some of her Christmas shows due to illness. Daryl Hall had to leave a stage this year because of illness. Elton John now can’t see because of infection to his eyes that won’t clear. There’s a lonnnng list of others. I made probably zero inroads sharing Covid information this year. You can lead a horse to water. I was asked why I wasn’t going to the staff Christmas party at work. I said ‘because I don’t want fucking Covid for Christmas’. What I call ‘gig culture’ is the broader culture of ‘you have to live your life’ i.e. take no adult responsibility for adult problems.