Illustration: Iris Gottlieb
The last concert Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding saw, the last proper blowout, was a show at Walt Disney Concert Hall by the dance-music duo Sylvan Esso. Performing songs like “Die Young” — “I was a firecracker, baby, with something to prove” — they brought a whole lot of funk to the normally buttoned-up venue. That was back in the winter of 2019, and when the pandemic shut down live music, and the world, shortly thereafter, it was a great note to go out on.
