While some artists managed to create alternative streams of income – like DJ Shimza’s Lockdown House Party – others were not as fortunate.
Fact Durban Rocks, a major crowd-puller, is an annual event at Moses Mabhida Stadium, which has capacity for 85 000 attendees. “Artists have been affected a lot. It’s bad. Some of them are downgrading in terms of lifestyle and cars because they can’t afford instalments at the end of the month,” Tira said.
“I was also fortunate to have found a movie scoring gig, so I spent most of the lockdown doing that,” he said.“I’m not coping at all. I didn’t receive a single relief fund payout. I filled out all the applications and submitted the proposals, but nothing happened. I didn’t even receive feedback. The relief fund kept saying it was paying – week in and week out – until I gave up,” he said.
It's tough hence their ground forces boycotted and were shot in KZN
People are hungry for such events and it's upon the organizers to have series of the events with limits of course with regards to the numbers inside the venue and continue to make money, I mean b4 level 3 upgrade we had limits of 50% venue 🤷♂️ COVID19SA HappyNewYear2021