Last year C&CS, the sector skills council for music and the creative and cultural industries, produced its Creative Blueprint document that warned the Government that leading employers in the live music, events and promotions industries are reporting serious difficulties in finding, recruiting and holding onto staff experienced and qualified in disciplines including sound, lighting and rigging.

Creative Blueprint also estimated that around half of the 40,000 employees working within the UK?s live entertainment sector (split roughly between music and theatre) ...