There’s sometimes a snobbishness surrounding covers and tribute bands — the cliche of the could-have-been musician who wipes down the leather jacket and dons a mullet wig at the weekend while delivering their best facsimile of our rock heroes.
But that’s just one take on playing other peoples’ music. Another is that of enthusiastically reimagined cover versions that put you in front of packed-out audiences on stages that many original bands aspire to play, all while getting to play the genre of music you love, and (no, seriously)…earning money.
