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The Music Venue Trust has backed Boris Johnson's suggestion that rapid coronavirus testing could be the key to reopening music venues

Despite these cancelations and postponements, the industry may find some hope of bringing back live music with rapid COVID-19 tests. On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said “rapid” lateral flow tests could be used by “those parts of the economy” that couldn’t reopen their doors in the U.K. last year. These lateral flow tests are able to provide results within half an hour. So, these tests could potentially allow music fans and event-goers to get a faster results and return to ven...

Updated: February 16, 2021, 6:41 pm The entrance of music venue the 100 Club (Yui Mok//PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Rapid testing outside music venues is not the answer to reviving the live concert industry, but using Government testing centres could be way forward, the head of the Music Venue Trust has said. Ma...

Sophie Day. The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has announced that The Railway Inn is one of 13 venues no longer on its Save Our Venue Red List. In November the charity revealed its Traffic Light campaign, a new phase of its hugely successful #saveourvenues campaign which is seeking to Reopen Every Venue Safely after the Covid crisis. The Traffic Light campaign threw the focus of the charity’s fundraising work behind securing the future of 30 venues who were ineligible to receive funding from, or...

With safety the top priority, UCR looks at the likelihood of concerts in 2021.

How does live come back? Frank Turner, Music Venue Trust and Concert Promoters Association speak out 11th February 2021 In his latest Audio Media International column, music industry veteran Mark Sutherland hears from the likes of Frank Turner, Music Venue Trust and the Concert Promoters Association to find out how the live music sector can come back from COVID… It’s been 11 long months since live music was dramatically shut down as the coronavirus pandemic took hold around the world. That�...

Fourpure completes £2.5m expansion Bermondsey-based Fourpure Brewing Co – part of the Lion Little World Beverages quartet of craft beer brands – has concluded its £2.5m expansion at its London home with new kegging and canning lines. Steve Morris, head of operations at Fourpure, said: “We’ve always had a state-of-the-art canning line but previously it was a little like a racehorse on a grey hound track, this latest suite of updates makes us Ascot-ready.  “The new, completely bespok...

A GRASSROOT music venue, which was on the Music Venue Trust red list has been saved from immediate threat of closure

TWO music venues have been saved from imminent closure thanks to public support. The Brunswick in Holland Road in Hove and the Rossi Bar in Queens Road, Brighton, have both been taken off the Music Venue Trusts "crisis list" of UK venues most at risk of shutting for good because of the pandemic. The charity, which represents hundreds of grassroots music venues across the country, launched its Traffic Light campaign to secure funding for venues which were either completely or partially uns...

Trade bodies back #KeepVATat5 Find out more about getting involved at www.livemusic.biz/campaigns UK - Leading trade associations have backed a campaign to keep UK’s VAT rate on ticket sales at 5% to aid the live events sector’s recovery. Last July, the government temporarily slashed the VAT rate to 5% from the standard rate of 20% to support businesses severely affected by the pandemic. The cut currently applies until 31 March 2021. #KeepVATat5, initiated by LIVE (Live music Industry Ve...