Behind the pandemic: Being a publicist in uncertain times

“We’ve been pushing through to support our local scene and the response has been phenomenal.”

[This piece was originally published in Cult MTL on October 28]

The week before confinement began in March, Montreal music publicist and festival promoter Chloé El-Sayegh was preparing to move to London and had interviews lined up with Spotify and AEG, but 2020 had other plans for her, as it did for the rest of us.

“My plane ticket was scheduled two days after the airport shutdown here in Montreal,” and so that plan was kind of cancelled, she says. “When the pandemic started, I had no more job because of my move, but also because of the whole live industry shutdown. Live music was my only real professional experience.”

[Read the rest on Cult MTL]