“We have a moral obligation to pitch in. There’s no excuse not to.' Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard talks about his daily livestreams in the age of COVID-19
That performance has now been streamed more than 200,000 times, and Gibbard has continued to broadcast every day since. In addition, Gibbard asks fans to donate to a different cause each day. Early on, he picked Seattle’s
It’s been really cool to watch you do these livestreams every day. I saw someone write in the comments, “I feel calm for the first time in three months.” I think using social media in this way is helping a lot of people through this. And while I would like to think that that would happen at any point, I think that this particular crisis we’re in, it’s been wonderful how we’ve kind of put a lot of people’s bullshit aside and just allowed us to realize that we might have differing political opinions, but this is something we are all going through together.
And once we realized that we could utilize it for charitable purposes, that really sealed the deal. The shows are almost completely by request. Last week, I did a number of theme shows based on the eras of my songwriting in the band.
People in my situation have this advantage of having an audience and also having a team of people who are able to help dot the I’s and cross the T’s and present these options. Over two weeks, we had 12 different causes.
You mentioned playing songs you haven’t played in 16 years. Which ones have been interesting to go back to?,” which is a song that we recorded for the Sub Pop Singles Club in 1999, I believe.
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