Music Week is delighted to reveal Sheryl Nwosu, Afryea Henry-Fontaine, Komali Scott-Jones and Char Grant of the Black Music Coalition’s executive committee as the cover stars of ...
Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd’s monthly deep dive into live music’s biggest issues...
Exactly 377 days after I last set foot in London I finally made it back to ...
Elbow, KT Tunstall, Metronomy and Slow Readers Club are to play a series of intimate shows in support of grassroots venues.
The acts will play gigs at locations that ...
Any column about royalty collection for songwriters is usually subject to allegations that the author doesn’t want those writers or publishers to be paid. So, let’s clear this up: the ...
A year ago, the Covid pandemic forced the closure of all grassroots venues.
Here, Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd looks back on a difficult 12 months, salutes the resilience ...
The live sector has responded to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement in the House Of Commons on a roadmap out of Covid restrictions.
After almost a year of total ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has used his latest Downing Street news conference to suggest that quick Covid-19 tests could enable nightclubs and theatres to reopen.
Although he stressed that it ...
The Music Venue Trust has announced that 13 out of the 30 grassroots venues on their Red List – which highlights those venues at imminent danger of permanent closure – ...
Following a backlash from artists, managers and the live sector, PRS For Music has withdrawn its online tariff for small-scale events in cases where a songwriter is performing their own ...
The Music Venue Trust has hit out at PRS For Music’s new livestream licence for online grassroots events.
It follows a separate row last year with the MMF and FAC ...
