IN years to come tales may be told around the campfire of times more difficult. “What did you do in the lockdown?” could be a common starting point.
Many people, of course, have selflessly worked as normal over the past year, while others found themselves trapped at home, turning to bread making or catching up on boxsets.
Musicians, of course, have their own natural outlet for frustration. Justin Sullivan, frontman of Bradford band New Model Army, decided to deal with lockdown by finally making his long-put-off second solo album.
“I found myself sitting on the sofa in my flat in Bradford and then at my partner’s place in Paris,” he says. “Within days, I picked up my guitar, went through notebooks where I jot down ideas for songs and started writing. And the songs came thick and fast in the first few weeks of the lockdown and soon I had 16.