Renowned British progressive rock band IQ has announced the streaming of a live concert from their recent ‘Resistance’ tour. The live stream will take place on Friday, May 22nd at 20:00 GMT (21:00 BST). The link will appear on the IQ website and will be available for the following week to make sure that everyone has the chance to see the show. There will also be a live chat with members of the band during the initial stream.
The streaming concert idea came after the band had to cancel its May 22 and 23 shows in Uden in the Netherlands and Nancy in France as a result of the recent COVID-19 lockdown measures.
IQ guitarist Mike Holmes said: “I know it was beyond our control, but we’ve never had to cancel a gig before and it didn’t really sit well with us, especially as we knew so many people had made travel and accommodation plans for the shows.
I’ve seen quite a few artists doing various lockdown videos from their homes which is a great idea, but it’s not really going to work with the IQ setup. As luck would have it, we recently played two gigs in Germany and the first one at Aschaffenburg was filmed and recorded for our own archives. The video footage wasn’t quite what we hoped it would be so we had no real plans to do anything with the files, but with this whole lockdown thing in place for the foreseeable future we figured we’d try to do something to show in place of the two concerts in May. The set list for the Aschaffenburg show was pretty much the same set we’d be playing in Uden and Nancy, and as it’s the entire two and a quarter hour concert, it seems kind of appropriate for the moment.”