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Virtual gig guide: Your guide to the best live streaming music for the week ahead

With the live music scene decimated by the current coronavirus restrictions, artists are going online to perform for their fans. David Roy rounds up the best of recent and upcoming live streaming musical performances

Wonder Stuff leader Miles Hunt will be doing another acoustic performance tomorrow from 2pm via Facebook Live
Wonder Stuff leader Miles Hunt will be doing another acoustic performance tomorrow from 2pm via Facebook Live

:: Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff)

TWO weeks ago, Miles from The Wonder Stuff did a Facebook Live streamed acoustic show from the comfort of his living room, running through an hour's worth of Stuffies favourites and other highlights from his musical career – not to mention the announcement that his late-90s post-Stuffies band Vent 414 (also featuring Morgan Nicholls of Senseless Things fame) will be back in action once the current madness subsides.

It went down so well, he's doing another one tomorrow – so get your request in now, put a bottle of wine in the fridge and set your alarm for 2pm sharp, when you'll want to point your preferred internet-enabled device at FB.com/miles.hunt.54 (you'll need to add him as a 'friend' before you can view).

:: Guy Chadwick (The House of Love)

WITH 80s/90s indie favourites The House of Love having had to cancel the next leg of their seemingly never-ending 30th anniversary tour (which has been going since 1988, impressively enough), bandleader Guy Chadwick has decided to keep active by posting regular solo acoustic song performances on the band's social medial. Tomorrow afternoon, he'll be doing a full length solo show via his Instagram page @thehouseofloveguychadwick from 4pm.

:: Brand New Friend

CASTLEROCKERS Brand New Friend wind up their live streaming Lockdown Tour tomorrow evening. Singer/guitarist Taylor Johnson, sister/singer/keyboardist Lauren and brother/bass player Logan have already done three live streamed shows for fans – including a full run-through their debut LP Seatbelts For Aeroplanes – from various spots in their house, but tomorrow finds them making a break for fresh air with a climactic show staged in their back garden (weather permitting, presumably). Tune in from 8pm via FB.com/pg/brandnewfriendz or via Instagram at @brandnewfriendz.

:: Andy that's in The Bonnevilles

BONNEVILLES frontman Andy McGibbon Jnr will be doing another live-streamed solo show from his home studio in Lurgan tomorrow evening, playing all the requests that came in from viewers during last Saturday night's performance. Expect Who Do I Have To Kill To Get Me Out of Here and other top tunes done on guitar, voice and kick-drum from 8pm via Instagram at @thebonnevilles or via their Facebook page.