My favourite blogger today asks the question “What’s On Tonight?” and answers it by saying…well…in fact EVERYTHING is on. Tonight, via the power of the internet, it is access all areas, and that question we might have asked 30 years ago is largely irrelevant.

I agree with him. But I disagree with one remark later on in the same blog. He says that as result of these changes to society that “live matters less”.

It may well be that Seth is referring specifically to “live programming”, in which the time at which we actually watch The Program, has ceased to matter. Watch any damn time you like!

But I think that the Unrecorded Live Experience, has come to matter even more. And I’ve made this particular point many times before:

Something like a Homesong gig in which a few people are gathered for an evening of music that ONLY THEY will experience has, in this digitally ubiquitous age, become something very precious.

And my conclusion therefore, is that Live Matters More.

We need, even more than previously, those moments when the only thing to be said is - You Had To Be There.