Music tours and gigs pick up pace around India

The mayhem is back, and so is the joy. After a long pandemic pause, musicians are touring again. As artistes reconnect with fans, we explore the relief and anxiety mingled in this homecoming

As the indie music fraternity begins to see a slow but steady post-pandemic revival, artistes have begun doing what they missed most over the past two years: hopping on a plane and flying to one city, then another, then another, waiting to be hit by a different kind of energy from a different kind of music-loving audience each time.

While some bands have locked in on multi-city tours — like Mumbai-based Seedhe Maut’s eight-city calendar from Jaipur to Bengaluru and back North to Chandigarh — others are out on a mix of public, private and corporate gigs.