Drawing on original research data, this chapter examines the measures taken to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and their impact on freelance and self-employed live performers and their particular industries. It then focuses on the lived experiences of freelance and self-employed performers during this period, providing insight into their hopes and fears in the face of the devastation of their working lives at the time of the pandemic, while contextualising these in relation to the pre-existing precarity discussed previously. Finally, the chapter considers the ability of performers to transition to performing online during periods of lockdown, evaluating both the opportunities and challenges that such a transition brought about, and reflecting on how these were experienced.