“Really uncertain”: Union Chapel saw all of its January gigs cancelled in the face of Omicron
(Picture: Union Chapel)It says a lot about the toll Omicron has taken on London’s live music scene that even after almost two years of the pandemic, three national lockdowns, multiple rounds of funding applications, and all manner of shape-shifting restrictions sent down by the Government, these past couple of months are being talked about as “the hardest time yet”.
That’s according to Helen Wallace, artistic and executive director of north London venue Kings Place. “We are ostensibly able to operate normally,” she says, “but there are these meteorites coming at us, and they sort of explode everything.”
