High Contrast announces virtual tour to support Music Venue Trust's #saveourvenues campaign

The electronic musician/producer/DJ has announced a five-date virtual tour, ending with a launch party to celebrate the release of his Notes From the Underground album next month.

High Contrast's virtual tour will start this Thursday (5 November) with club tracks hosted by UKF. The virtual tour will carry on each Thursday until 3 December, the day before Notes From the Underground is released.

The five-date tour aims to spread awareness about Music Venue Trust's #saveourvenues campaign, which is helping support grassroots music venues during the coronavirus pandemic. The tour is announced ahead of the second lockdown being enforced across England on Thursday (5 November), which will see venues at risk once again.

A physical tour isn’t possible so instead I’ll be doing a virtual tour in support of my forthcoming album Notes from the Underground. Kicks off this Thursday. Subscribe to my YouTube channel, more details to follow https://t.co/ZRXtHFcT3b#N_F_T_U pic.twitter.com/6qkjLKaJJw

— High Contrast (@HighContrast) November 2, 2020

High Contrast, aka Lincoln Barrett said, "Thinking back on some of the most pivotal, defining moments in my life, a majority of those moments happened at live music events, whether in venues or festival spaces. I think of seeing Roni Size & Reprazent perform Drum & Bass music live at Reading festival in 1998, a performance that hit me like a lightning bolt and which I walked away from aged 18 thinking 'this is what I'm gonna do with my life'. It's arguable that without that galvanising moment I would never have embarked on my own career in music."

Barrett added, "I think of going to a proper club for the first time and hearing Fabio dj, the power and emotion the live venue imbued the music with, making me never want to listen to music at home again for it forever felt like a paltry shadow of the vibe you get in a club. Now, being a musician it's understandable that these musical moments affected me so much but having seen the joy live music brings to audience members first hand and the sheer number and variety of people at live music events, I'm sure these are things felt by the majority of people in this country."

He continued, "When I saw Leonard Cohen perform at Glastonbury a few years ago with my Mum and sister, there was something beyond magical about it, my Mum having played Leonard Cohen songs to us kids growing up, to then as adults getting to hear those songs performed live together is something I can't really put into words but many tears were shed. These kind of moments are a huge part of what makes life worth living and the thought of young people in particular being denied these gateways to inspiration is unthinkable. Without venues and events then there will be no more live music and it will have died on our watch. We simply cannot let that happen."