Diversity has to be a fundamental driver to our recovery, growth and levelling-up agenda, says Ammo Talwar, UK Music’s Diversity Taskforce chair. Read on for his plans for a ...
The UK live music industry has joined together for the first time to formally launch its own industry body, LIVE. It follows a year of devastation due to Covid-19 and ...
The DCMS Committee has been busy looking into the economics of streaming in recent weeks. But for its latest session, EU touring was on the agenda as MPs called in ...
Artists and the wider music industry were unimpressed by Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage’s response earlier this week to a petition calling for visa-free touring in the EU.
Following the ...
Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has responded to the Parliamentary debate on the petition for visa-free touring across the EU, which was signed by 284,069 people.
The petition was set up ...
During a virtual session last night (February 8), MPs debated a petition with 238,000 signatories calling for freedom of movement for UK artists, musicians and crew across the EU. ...
UK artists and musicians are hoping for urgent progress on the Brexit touring issue.
We’ve covered the back and forth on the row between the government and EU in recent ...
Relations between the music industry, artists and the government have soured so far this year.
The source of the discontent: Brexit, of course, and the claims made about the government’s ...
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives today (January 20) amid concerns over Brexit.
There has been a simmering row over visa-free touring in the EU, following ...
When touring musicians, artists and crew were not covered with a comprehensive reciprocal agreement for visa-free touring in the post-Brexit trade deal (read the background here), the UK blamed ...