Il Serraglio, a live music venue in Milan, closes. And the ‘goodbye’ post is moving

A place like many. A place that does not look like other places. A place to sing and dance with a band known or to someone who he performs for the first time on a stage. A place that musicians, those who travel around Italy aboard a rotten but large van (because they have great projects), they could tell in every detail: the places where you listen to live music have one hundred characteristics in common and one hundred uniqueness. Closes the Seraglio, a Milanese place where the relay race between famous and perfect strangers gave the music a chance to find a place. Via Gualdo Priorato. Guys out that wait to enter when the band or songwriter arrives. Guys inside that wait to go out when the band or songwriter arrives. Beers and small talk. A place like many. A place that does not look like other places. The crisis in the music sector is full-blown, known, shouted. Up here FQmagazineFor months, we have been working to support and protect this world that suffers like few others. And next to the big live and the fragile workers left home no one knows how long, they are there the ‘small’ places. Those where the lives were also ‘small’, but beautiful. Those who have failed to comply with anti-covid rules. Or yes. But it didn’t help: “The Seraglio is greeting. Even for us the adventure ends here, we tried to the last breath but we lost – reads in a post published on Facebook that for those who love music it’s like a punch on the teeth – Thank you, thank you very much to all those who, standing close to us, have helped us to grow. We are not going to do any philippics about why and how much, it is there for all to see. Perhaps, if we can afford it, we would like to give you some advice: start living music again with the pleasure of doing it regardless of everything. Small businesses need itno positive spirit of creativity and passion, which for us is the basis of everything. Then the profession and the job take over. And you audience, stop following only the hype of the various moments and be curious, there are so many good artists who do not have the slightest chance just because they are not cool enough on social media. Learn to live clubs with the pleasure of discovering, socializing, helping talents live and not through virtual likes. This period should have shown it in full. Good life to everyone“. What do you want to add? Maybe, to put it in the Nick Hornby, you could go back to trying to woo the songs. Court. That’s right. In real life: no hype, no social media. Let’s go to the premises (respecting the rules) and listen. If we really fall in love with music again and battle for hear who makes it, be it a big or a perfect stranger who travels in a big van to make room for his great projects, maybe it works. At least one bit’. Because Italy is full of “Serraglio” and making sure that these oases of music, life and culture can survive this crisis is a battle to be won.