Matt, you may be right. What I really meant was that the total pot of gig fees will go up as the live gig market expands further, not necessarily (or only) the individual fee for a particular artist. Individual fees will depend on whether more venues become available etc.

Don't discount either the possibility of live gigs on the internet, where you pays your fee and then you are allowed to connect to the camera feed during a particular timeslot. It's a poor man's "live", but live nevertheless. This month has seen the start of live opera and orchestra performances being piped into cinemas in the UK, where you still pay an entrance fee, though not as high as if you were in front of the real thing, of course.