Aug 8, 2026 · 45 min · 13 segments
**The vaguely chronological recap of our careers enters 2021, and that strange finding-your-feet period after furloughs and social distancing.** With no Sunak schemes to support us, it was back to…
Simon FurmanHost
Andrew WildmanHost
Anyway, what are we going to be talking about? We're going to be talking about, we're going to pick up our chronological trawl through our careers where we left off, which was lockdown.
And we're going to look at early 2021 and through, well, through 2021, really, as we came out of lockdown and things like furlough schemes became a distant memory.
And, you know, I can't tell you how grateful I was for those furlough payments during 2020.
You know, everything rolled on and yeah, it was definitely a difficult time, but yeah, the furlough payments really sort of got us and probably loads of freelancers through the, through that period.
The music industry had a lot of problems in that, especially crew for bands and everything, because they're so on and off that when there was no work going on because of COVID...
And I know that various kind of bodies and some bands actually did fundraising things purely to be able to get the crew some
Anyway, what are we going to be talking about? We're going to be talking about, we're going to pick up our chronological trawl through our careers where we left off, which was lockdown.
And we're going to look at early 2021 and through, well, through 2021, really, as we came out of lockdown and things like furlough schemes became a distant memory.
And, you know, I can't tell you how grateful I was for those furlough payments during 2020.
You know, everything rolled on and yeah, it was definitely a difficult time, but yeah, the furlough payments really sort of got us and probably loads of freelancers through the, through that period.
The music industry had a lot of problems in that, especially crew for bands and everything, because they're so on and off that when there was no work going on because of COVID...
And I know that various kind of bodies and some bands actually did fundraising things purely to be able to get the crew some
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