SHREDDING THROUGH A CRISIS

You might have noticed that in this issue of Australian Guitar, we’ve forgone the usual Axes In Action column. No, we haven’t suddenly decided that live music no longer butters our proverbial muffin; rather, there haven’t been any gigs for us to hit since the outbreak of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic – no mosh pits to cut loose in and no breakdowns to bang our heads to, all because despite millennia of human evolution, we’re still not immune to every possible viral infection. Sigh.

COVID-19 has wreaked merciless havoc on virtually every industry in the first world’s current capitalistic hellscape, but perhaps none has suffered quite the blow that the arts and culture sector has. Though it was