//Drive-ins were huge in 2020. But can they work for live music?

Drive-ins were huge in 2020. But can they work for live music?

Fans watch from their parked cars as GWAR performs a drive-in concert in Richmond, Virginia. | Andrew Marino for Vox

How attending a drive-in show made me realize how much I hope they’re not the only future of live music.

The only concert I actually got to see in person this year was sold out. But a sold-out show in a parking lot filled with cars is a much different scene than a typical sold-out indoor or outdoor venue show. Especially when that show is a drive-in concert held in the middle of a pandemic.

In October, I watched the cult-favorite heavy metal group GWAR perform live in the parking lot of the Diamond, a baseball stadium in Richmond, Virginia. GWAR is beloved by their fans for their over-the-top concerts, at which they wear grotesque costumes and put on skits about