"This is not a long play," says Live Nation’s Tom See. "But you’ve got a pent-up fan that really wants to go out and have a good time." At first, when Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer hit the stage in late April, he was perplexed that he couldn't hear the crowd cheering.
Then a large man started shaking his small car. Then another car was shaking. And another. Soon all 500 cars in the diamond-shaped Aarhus, Denmark, drive-in theater recently built for coronavirus-era concerts were wiggling in rhythm. “It was very different, depending on the size of the car and the size of the people in the car,” he says. “Those moments kept happening in a way they don't happen at a regular concert.” With concerts shut down for the foreseeable future,