“Laura is social media averse, but she was comfortable doing guitar tutorials for fans, so we sent her HD cameras to use in her house and she quite enjoyed performing remotely – culminating in a home performance for Later with Jools on the BBC.
Details: bbc.co.uk/proms. News ... On a rainy Saturday evening Laura Marling played an exclusive one off gig at London’s iconic Union Chapel.
Having said that, how else are you supposed to get to the barrier to make eye contact with the lead singer of your favourite band?
Held down The same feeling you would get when waiting to enter a live show. Where Marling’s activity differed was in charging fans for a ticket to access the live broadcast of her show, which transported her out of the ubiquitous corona confines of the living room/bedroom/bathroom/home studio setting, to a proper, recognisable venue. I think without an audience to dampen a large amount of reverberation, its going to feel quite wild and I like that.”. 87.3k Followers, 85 Following, 74 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Laura Marling (@lauramarling) Wild fire Marling stood stock still throughout, glazed eyes fixed on the middle distance but concentrating on some internal space. But with locked-down fans desperate for any kind of shared experience, demand for tickets uncannily replicated ‘normal’ sales patterns.
‘Goodbye England’, like every song, was a highlight. There she could call upon state-of-the-art sound, lighting and camera equipment, and even an award-winning director, Giorgio Testi, and Pulse Films, to deliver something meaningful and give ‘attendees’ something lasting. “The primary function was not to make money, hence the ticket price of just £12 (€13). Social distancing may suit Laura Marling, who has never been the most effusive of live performers. ‘Strange Girl’ was one of the more upbeat numbers from the set. Taking that situation as a challenge, the ATC partners set about pulling the necessary team together. And using the technology at hand, only those with huge followings have been able to generate revenues through the likes of advertising that, again, they rarely have any say about. Marling is an exceptional talent, an English singer-songwriter of supreme lyrical quality and prodigious musical skills, with a mesmerising voice that shifts effortlessly from dry talk-singing to rich mid-tones and spectacularly easy-flowing high notes. “An unforeseen bonus to an audience-free show, which of course means no front-of-house sound, is that you can get incredible sound – close to studio quality… With this set-up, we could use mics on everything without fear of feedback.”, Manager Ric Salmon tells IQ, “The genesis of the idea was born out of frustration.