Covid and music: A year without gigs for independent venues
BBC News Published Before the pandemic, they'd host some of the most memorable nights of the year. But it's now been 10 months without gigs for independent venues because of coronavirus, which has devastated the industry. "The last year has been really tough. We haven't opened at all during this whole period since March," Dom Fraser - director of The Boileroom in Guildford tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. She's been running the venue for 15 years. This week is Independent Venue Week, and her venue had a full, socially distanced line-up booked in - but that got cancelled at the last minute. According ...