Live4Ever Tracks Of The Year - 2022

Do you want to know something scary? We’re more than a quarter of the way through this decade.

And we can all agree it’s been a belter so far. As the West continues to be in permanent Crisis Mode – from populism to COVID to Ukraine to the cost of living crisis (not forgetting the death of the planet) – there has been little respite from the horror. Apart from the sort that can be found in music.

That said, it’s becoming an annual tradition to bemoan the outside world in these roundups and sadly, the music industry isn’t entirely a safe haven.

Even if it’s been a marginal improvement on the preceding years (acts could actually tour, for one thing), there is still much cause for despair.

Compounding the fact that artists make negligible money from their output (because, y,know, streaming) are the increased bills, felt equally as keenly by venues, musicians, and stage crew. Inevitably, these price hikes must fall at the feet of the consumer who are being hit by huge jumps in their monthly bills…you see the problem?

So, at the risk of becoming repetitive in these end-of-year features, it’s been another scary year in which we also lost another tranche of musical heroes…

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