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Submitting... The Boulevard also praised the help it received from a fellow Wigan arts hub. Venue owner Emma Elliot said: "The campaign is the reason we can now see a light at the end of the tunnel. The tremendous support from the public, the Music Venue Trust and The Old Courts has been nothing less than amazing and words cannot describe how grateful we are.” In November the Music Venue Trust revealed its Traffic Light campaign, a new phase of its Save Our Venues campaign which is seeking to...

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The Railway Inn, Winchester Waterloo Bar, Blackpool Mark Davyd, CEO of Music Venue Trust, comments: “We want to thank every artist, every audience member, every member of our community for taking direct action which means we are able to remove these 13 venues from the Red List right now. The love shown for these venues continues to demonstrate how important they are to people and to our towns and cities. Music Venue Trust is committed to reopening every venue safely and we are going to carr...

Andy Burnham (Picture: Getty) Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has suggested that the “big players” of the music industry should pay a levy to support grassroots music venues through the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking as part of Independent Venue Week’s Culture Panel last week (January 28), Burnham said the industry had a responsibility to protect beleaguered venues which have faced the threat of financial ruin. Proposing a new levy, Burnham likened it to his own role in the formatio...

Last modified on Tue 2 Feb 2021 04.49 EST PRS for Music, which collects royalties for songwriters and composers and licenses music events in the UK, has backed down from a plan to charge grassroots venues and musicians to perform in small-scale livestreams. Last week, the company announced that PRS-registered organisers of livestreamed events raising up to £250 would need to pay a flat fee of £22.50, rising to £45 for events generating between £251 and £500. The fees would result in a much...

The music industry should help bail out struggling small venues, Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says.

Christian Eede , January 29th, 2021 17:04 A new tariff on ticketed online events grossing less than £500 could make a number of streams unviable UK music industry bodies have criticised the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music after it introduced a new licence fee for ticketed small-scale live-streamed performances. A number of music industry organisations have expressed concern that the new tariff will leave some grassroots artists out of pocket, at a time that many are relying on such ...

Advertising In the Before Times, the Fulford Arms in York was an always-busy kind of place. This pub in the north of England would generally put on around 250 shows a year in its dedicated live-music space. It’s a classic stop on the UK’s indie touring circuit, and the place to go in this part of the country if you want to catch the latest British guitar band tipped to make it big. But then came Covid. Like countless other music venues around the world, the Fulford...

Roger Daltrey responds after being called out for past Brexit comments The rock veteran signed an open letter calling for visa-free travel for musicians after previously saying "whats Brexit got to do with rock music?" Roger Daltrey of the Who performs on stage CREDIT: Getty The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has responded after his decision to sign a letter supporting visa-free travel for musicians has caused a stir online. The singer previously spoke out in support of Brexit and claimed that it w...

Government ministers have rejected pleas for them to fight for a visa-free touring plan for musicians and their crew with the EU.