Why Smart Glasses are the Future of Live Music

ft. 6G Technology

I’ve been to some great shows over the years.

The Charles Mingus Big Band and Al di Meola at Ronnie Scott’s. Chic, The Stones (no surprises there) three times, the great Colombian supergroup Ondatropica, Jupiter & Okwess International after they were run out of their native Mali by Islamists.

The incomparable Arijit Singh. Frank Ocean at Brixton Academy, Watch the Throne.

I’ve watched John Eliot Gardiner conduct Mozart, heard Vivaldi performed in La Serenissima and felt myself be rapturously reduced by Bach’s Mass in B Minor, as performed by a boys’ choir no less, as it took on a particularly revenant splendour in the surrounds of London’s Brompton Oratory.

Granted I turned down the chance to see Prince play his secret show at the Electric Ballroom in 2014 because I presumed that my friend who had gotten the intel had been misinformed. But other than that, if live music forms part of your cultural survival kit in any meaningful way, the above is the stuff of a pretty nice life.

The other night I went to see Coldplay on the third night of their Wembley residency. They are an exceptionally deft musical force, considerably more inventive and substantive than they are given credit for. They are almost as much…