A distressed appeal from DIR EN GREY's Kaoru against 'the evil concert venues' being resented because of COVID-19
Musicians are indignant because of the wave of calling concert venues (live houses) 'evil'.
There's a huge damage to the music industry because of the COVID-19. A person related to a music agency office pointed out 'nowadays the CDs don't sell, instead the earnings of most music companies come from concert ticket sales and merchandise sales. The bigger companies might be fine as they have some savings, but there are only a few companies like that'.
'Now it's a common knowledge that there's a risk of infection at various places, but at the early stages of the corona-related media uproar the club where infected people were discovered was used as a scapegoat' same person says.
At such time, Kaoru, who is the leader of DIR EN GREY that just finished their European tour, mentions the problem of concert venues in his YouTube radio program 'The Freedom of Expression'. 'I don't understand seeing the concert venues as evil' he appealed as a musician. In fact, DIR EN GREY as well had to postpone some of their shows that were planned at the end of this month in Japan.
He further added 'in the current situation, you have to be ready to face the decision if you will do the show or not. I'm afraid of thinking about the future. What is a good choice...? People will be more hesitant to buy concert tickets in the future. The image is moving in a bad direction'.
Kaoru says 'during the tour in Europe when I entered some shops while wearing a mask I was being stared at a bit. The way of thinking about using masks is different there (it is worn by the sick people only), so I can understand that, but I felt really affected by it'.
The inpact on the regularly held world tours is unavoidable.
As the number of cases keeps increasing in Japan and abroad it will take some time before the entertainment industry manages to restore its image.
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