🚨 We have published our report on how the UK Government can save grassroots music venues 🎵 Watch the video below to find out our top recommendations 📗 Read the full report 👉

@markdavyd Here’s a clue don’t tax bars & clubs out of existence

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No bloody good saving music venues if there are no musicians to play in them. What are you doing about music education?

This is great news, recognition of the issues and a start to identifying what is needed. But a report is just a report WE NEED ACTION NOW! (particularly in an election year if I might say)

Brilliant report! In my opinion, supporting grassroots venues is the best way to support the entire ecosystem. Just three points I’d like to add. 1. The report ommitted to mention some other businesses that operating within the music economy. The likes of recording studios; rehearsal rooms, music tutors; and retailers that supply instruments, parts, and consumables. This is a minor point, but the committee should be cognisant that the music ecosystem isn’t limited to venues, artists, booking agencies, and artist management, and actually extends well beyond the nighttime economy. All these other entities would stand to benefit from funding being allocated to grassroots venues. 2. Money is transferred from consumers to artists at concerts. The Music Venue Trust’s mission to safeguard grassroots venues, effectively guarantees the delivery of such concerts. For this reasons I believe that the Music Venue Trust is better placed to allocate funding than the LIVE Trust is. 3. PRS seems to get off lightly, given they are actually one of the main beneficiaries of the R&D that grassroots music venues provide. Without the venues there would be far fewer rights for PRS to collect. Nowhere else in the economy are R&D departments charged money to do perform R&D. PRS should be funding grassroots venues, rather than collecting royalties from them. This situation is patently ridiculous and the government should step in to address it. At the very least the venues should not have to pay these royalties in a tacit acknowledgement of the critical role they play in helping to develop new talent. How much do those royalties amount to anyway? My guess would be somewhere around £5M each year, which is a just drop in the ocean. Thanks for reading!

Fantastic and much needed news!! Well done all involved

Great work ❤️

I’m not sure this current ‘government’ gives a tinker’s cuss about grassroots music venues. Planning for recovery after they have been defenestrated is where energy needs to be directed.