Robert Plant likes playing all sorts of gigs, and over the course of a career stretching back for five and a half decades, he has played all sorts of gigs. Huge ones where you need a telescope to see the back row, club shows where you can see the whites of the audience’s eyes, freewheeling jams, headline sets, easy and breezy afternoon singalongs - he's played them all. Speaking to Classic Rock’s Niall Doherty in 2021, Plant explained that they were all one and the same to him.
Asked if he missed playing “proper” shows - it was lockdown and live music was on pause - Plant said there was no such thing. “Every show is a proper show, because you’ve got to get it right,” he said. At the time, he’d been enjoying low-level sessions with friends, away from the limelight. “It’s very humorous, intense, but very funny and simple in the way it comes about and the way we can move and travel with a number of people,” he explained. “We just turn up and play.”
