First shadow concerts
July 27, 2020

First UK gig after lockdown: Enjoyable weird

"It was a new thing and there’s something in the idea of doing differently, so we’ve just got to try and embrace it" - Miles Kane told the NME after his Camden Market gig, the first UK post-lockdown concert. “We’re trucking on and we’re fighters. It’s definitely one of the weirdest gigs I’ve played, but an enjoyable weird” - he added. The crowd of roughly fifty fans stood in socially distanced sections, which were clearly marked out on the floor, while they donned compulsory face masks.

Miles Kane is the first musician to play the UK’s first public music event since the coronavirus lockdown began earlier this year, NME reports. Kane will play Camden Market this Saturday (July 25) to kick off the ‘Camden Unlocked’ series, which will take in eight ticketed, free open-air weekend performances until August 16, that will also see performances by Newton Faulkner, Shaun Escoffery, Stone Foundation, Sons of Pitches, John Power, Mae Muller, and The Puppini Sisters. Miles Kane has released 3 solo albums to date and is also one half of The Last Shadow Puppets with Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner.