Buskers, who earn a living solely from performing and are often from the B40 group, are gravely affected by the MCO. But three weeks in, many have taken to Facebook or Instagram to put on live shows, sharing their bank account numbers for viewers who wish to tip. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 10, 2020.
I FIND it amusing – OK, annoying sometimes – when the average Joe or Jane, knowing that I’m a musician or singer , expects me to break into song and entertain everyone at a snap of the finger by saying, “Hey Azmyl, why don’t you sing us a song?”. I often endearingly retort, “Come to my gig, man”. The conversation tends to end there, and we return to the preceding routine or meeting. Sometimes, I spam them with my YouTube or Spotify links and tell them to “check out my stuff”, but judging by my rather static number of subscribers or followers, I oftentimes fail to make converts out of them, and these links remain untouched, like some long-lost pre-Islamic “candi” preserved under tonnes of laterite soil in the peninsula heartland.
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