Tickets go live today for the “World’s first Covid-Safe Live Music Event and Venue,” an immersive music experience offered by One Night Records due to open on October 2nd, 2020, in London. In a tweet posted today (June 4th) on their official Twitter page, @OneNightRecords, the organisation are now presenting what they call “Lockdown Town,” with weeks of open slots available every 15 minutes from 7 pm to 9 pm. According to an NME article covering the launch, the music event will be taking place throughout the entire month of October, ending on Halloween.
Quoted in the above-mentioned NME article, the event and venue’s Managing Director Tim Wilson has assured all prospective ticket-buyers that, “We’re going to do it safely, but we’re going to get people back together and we’re going to give them an amazing night.” Rather cleverly, government-mandated social distancing (which is nobody’s idea of fun) will actually be incorporated into the show, “so guests won’t notice it. We want to give Londoners something to book now and to look forward to.”
One Night Records, the world's first Immersive Music venue, present "Lockdown Town". Book now: https://t.co/mJ9l4dDBdV@standardnews https://t.co/yj0vSjubuR @TimeOutLondon https://t.co/ljcZvvknoh @MetroUK https://t.co/WukpNK33IZ #onenightrecords #lockdowntown pic.twitter.com/2YBl1KSZv8
— One Night Records (@OneNightRecords) June 4, 2020
Themed around a nostalgia-hued wander down Memory Lane, the event focuses on 1950s nostalgia and has been described by venue organisers as an “exciting new live event,” the first of its kind to offer IRL entertainment at a safe, sensible, and sociable distance, since the COVID-19 pandemic brought the global music industry to a halt. According to another article by Theatre Weekly, the show has plenty of unique oddities on offer for those of us numbed by the tiring familiarity of our lockdown living rooms.
“Audiences will watch the devil and country music dance at the crossroads,” the article proposes, as well as suggesting that ticket-holders could “lose themselves in Harlem Jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, and at last arrive spinning into rag time and Spanish Flu.” Hopefully the latter detail won’t be too immersive, as I am sure none of those wish to be reminded of any more viral diseases right now…
