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Perhaps one the most affected industries since the coronavirus hit has been the arts. Music, venues, studios and events have been widely impacted. Bands worldwide and famous, small and local, have had to deal with the aftermath of the virus in extreme and upsetting ways. The usual ways that the local music scenes would operate have been completely halted, with only few examples of gigs and events going ahead, still with strong restrictions that mean things just are not the same as before.  Whilst I wanted to discuss how exactly the virus has directly impacted local music scenes, particularly in Liverpool but elsewhere also, who better to speak from experience than some musicians who have seen the affects firsthand. So, I sent some questions to my musician friends to see what their experiences have been, whether they think things will ever return to the normal they knew, and whether these unique and frightening circumstances have made them rethink how fragile music is as a career....

 Hellllooo, I am now free from my challenging (COVID centred) masters degree and am very excited to get back into regular blogging. Remember when second year Hannah posted weekly? I would like to challenge her energy again lol. For today’s post I wanted to do what I do best; discuss the positives and negatives of higher education. Having come to the end of four years of university, I’d like to think I’ve gotten the ‘uni experience’ to its fullest potential at this point. However, on a year off from education, I am not currently doing what I had maintained I would be only a few months ago. This next academic year was supposed to be the beginning of my three year doctorate in Theology, preferably at Manchester, delving into a feminist theology-based thesis. Instead, I have decided to postpone this for at least a year. So, why have I done this, and why do I think it’s a big enough deal to write about? Unlike A Levels or even undergraduate degrees which are, at this point, somewhat exp...