since then hundreds of thousands of fans attended their festivals to see massive music stars like 100 gecsnched block by blockwest. if you are a small artist in a small musical niche, it's going to be really hard for you to pack a club out and tour the world, or rather, even tour your nation. but if you can book a show on a virtual platform and bring everyone that is spread out in your community together, you can put on a full show, and you could monetise it and the money can go directly to the artist, rather than kind of circumventing through third parties. the idea is that it breaks down financial barriers, it breaks down geographical barriers and it kind of disrupts the whole festival circuit. and for artists like pussy riot, breaking down political barriers is just as important as breaking financial ones. to me it opens up the possibility to play for a russian audience — like i really wish i could play physically, but even when it was not coronavirus, pussy riot are still enemies of the state so sometimes when we just leave the house, cops are arresting us forjust bleep leaving the hou