Thou shalt not hold your own camera: how to livestream your gig
(The Guardian Culture News)

Life in lockdown has sparked some inventive home entertainment from musicians - but the medium comes with its own pitfalls. Here are some dos and don´tsModern Toss on artist live streaming ...When news first circulated that Chris Martin was planning a surprise broadcast, dubbed #TogetherAtHome, to help entertain Generation WFH, the world expected to find him bouncing around his back ballroom surrounded by vagina candles. Instead, resembling a housebreaking busker, he awkwardly fluffed his way through Coldplay snippets at his home studio piano, making a pig´s ear of Viva La Vida and stopping Bowie´s Life on Mars? just as it got going. When 300,000 people are watching, attack your songs like the online stadium residency it is. Continue reading...