'Together, apart': Tim Burgess on uniting music fans through lockdown listening
In the digital age, one of the benefits of the listening parties is encouraging people to listen to entire albums in full, says Burgess. The positives of lockdown can sometimes seem small, but time is definitely one of them.
"Oh yeah, it's absolutely amazing. What everyone has been saying is that it's incredible to actually sit down and listen to a record, to actually have 45 minutes to listen instead of just picking a track off a playlist or whatever, or listening to half of it before having to run out and do something else.
"People are sitting down and enjoying the experiences. It's simple but meaningful, really, especially now. It's kind of showing the power of music. "I mean, music and art has been a bit downtrodden, I think, in recent times; people just having things for free and all that kind of stuff, and just listening to one track.
"There's an art form to making an album and there's a reason why it is an album, because lots of artists put a lot of effort into it. And I think, you know what? Yeah. Let's stand by that. It's powerful."Me and Paddy backstage at the San Remo Festival in 1986 part of the
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