Death Cab For Cutie Are Performing Daily Online ‘Concerts’, And They’re Taking Requests
The first one is 10am AEDT Wednesday.
Download Festival may have been cancelled, but you can still get your emo fix by catching Death Cab For Cutie live. Well, kind of: Ben Gibbard has announced he’ll be doing daily live shows streamed from his home, with special guests stopping by digitally.
Gibbard announced the plan via Facebook status, joining the legion of music and arts acts who are currently moving online as a way to offer something to their fans currently self isolating due to COVID-19.
“I know you are all really freaked out right now. I am too,” he wrote. “And while I’m proud that we’re all doing the necessary things at the moment to help flatten the curve, I know it has left us all incredibly isolated.”
“But because we’re all going through this nightmare together we are quite literally NOT alone. Our lives and stories are all linked, maybe more now than they have ever been.”
Gibbard writes that he wants to ‘come to fans’ as a way to return the favour from fans travelling to see them live over the decades.
“Be it with DCFC, Postal Service, or solo I have always been grateful for the honour you have bestowed upon us by choosing to congregate en masse around our music. Some of you have travelled great distances and/or shelled out large sums of money to see us play and that has never been lost on me. So in this crazy and unprecedented time, I’d like to return the favour by coming to YOU.”
Gibbard says he’ll be taking requests, which you can write below. The first session will be 4pm PST tomorrow, which is 10am AEDT Wednesday. Facebook will send you a reminder if you ask it too, via Death Cab’s post.