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Music Venue Trust is a UK registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve Grassroots Music Venues. Email: info @musicvenuetrust .com
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We’re collaborating with The
@Independent
to launch a brand new initiative called: MAIN STAGE.
Read more on this fantastic partnership on The Independent, plus sign up to their "Now Hear This" newsletter at
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Dear
@KwasiKwarteng
@nadhimzahawi
This is an actual bill demand for electricity from a leading energy retailer to an iconic grassroots music venue.
646% increase. £36,400 extra per year.
This is happening now.
We need a price gap for businesses NOW
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We'd like to say thank you to all of the thousands of you that have been supporting us and your local grassroots music venue for the last 121 days. There is still a great deal to be done, but pretty soon we hope to post a tweet and it will say one thing:
Saved Our Venues
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60 years ago today, The Beatles made their debut at Cavern Club Liverpool. John, Paul, George, Stuart & Pete had not long returned from Hamburg. They played at lunchtime and received £5. The Beatles would play The Cavern Club 292 times.
Every band starts somewhere.
#SaveOurVenues
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Music Venue Trust have launched a nationwide campaign to
#saveourvenues
. We need Artists, Music Fans & Local Communities to act together to prevent their local grassroots music venue from permanently closing. Visit to find out how you can get involved.
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Please read our statement regarding the latest government announcement about live gigs returning as early as August 1st.
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Government Announces HUGE breakthrough for Grassroots Music Venues: Business Rates to be slashed by 50% for hundreds of venues in England and Wales. £1.7million released back into the live music sector!
Read all about it:
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We have an alternative Road Map to Reopen Every Venue Safely.
Please take a look
@OliverDowden
@BorisJohnson
@RishiSunak
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IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION:
@bandonthewall
Manchester is not permanently closing. It is closed for a set period and will return in 2021.
MVT is continuing work on plans to rescue
@DeafInstitute
@thisisgorilla
@giveitsomewelly
&
@PolarBearHull
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Are you really missing live music and the joy of being together in our grassroots music venue community?
Yes Yes Yes
👇 👇 👇
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MUSIC VENUE TRUST ANNOUNCE ‘TRAFFIC LIGHT’ CAMPAIGN TO SAVE ALL GRASSROOT MUSIC VENUES STILL IN CRISIS
30 Venues Become ‘Red Light’ Focus of
#saveourvenues
Campaign
#savethe30
LIKE / SHARE / DONATE
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NOISE COMPLAINTS - DON'T BE A NORMAN
We were sort of hoping to never ever have to post this meme again. But we have to report that music venues across the country are now besieged by vexatious and unwarranted noise complaints following their reopening after 18 months of closure.
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THANK YOU
To all the artists, crew, & industry, journalists & broadcasters.
But most of all to you, the live music fans. The millions of you that love these eccentric, beautiful temples to music as much as we do.
Without people, you’re nothing.
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#LETTHEMUSICPLAY
Today we stand with the whole music industry in solidarity with the people that make events in GMVs happen. We ask the Prime Minister and Chancellor to extend Furlough/Self Employment/Income Support Schemes to everyone in our sector unable to return to work.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO RICHARD SHARP, CHAIR OF THE BBC BOARD
The Future of BBC Introducing
We are writing to you as a group of organisations that represent key stakeholders in the live music industry...
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The artists are taking a test. The crew are taking a test. The staff are taking a test. That just leaves you, the audience to make your decision.
Please play your part and help us to Reopen Every Venue Safely.
#TakeATest
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Please avoid the temptation to only arrive for the headline band. The support bands have also lost a year's worth of gigging and you never know, one of those support bands may end up being your next favourite band.
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On Friday 26 May, Music Venues across Europe will stand together to remember Manchester. Please stand with us.
#oneminuteformanchester
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Music Venue Trust is aware of the threat to
@Leadmill
in
#Sheffield
and is already working with the team to ensure the venue survive.
Sheffield is a Music City.
@SheffCouncil
needs to demonstrate that it is not prepared to see its music culture closed down.
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Grassroots Music Venues Matter to the whole music industry. Here's why:
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Glastonbury... only without the artists who started their careers in Grassroots Music Venues
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PLEASE READ MUSIC VENUE TRUST STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO UK GOVERNMENT CANCELLATION OF PLANS TO RE-OPEN LIVE MUSIC VENUES TOMORROW.
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MVT STATEMENT ON THE NIGHT & DAY,
The refusal by
@ManCityCouncil
to overturn the Noise Abatement Notice issued to the iconic music venue
@nightanddaycafe
presents a very simple, clear, understandable and practical example for the UK's music community.
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@RishiSunak
Music Venue Trust warmly welcomes this unprecedented intervention into Britain's world class live music scene.
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It’s crucial that
@RishiSunak
’s statement tomorrow supports live music. The UK’s live music industry is world-beating. Without support, it won’t survive
#LetTheMusicPlay
#wemakeevents
#saveourvenues
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Statement on the Government Announcement on Indoor Live Performance Events
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Together we can permanently end the biggest threat to grassroots music venues: Ownership.
Help us
#OwnOurVenues
Find out more about our biggest campaign yet:
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Imagine’ celebrates its 50 year anniversary with global parties. Viewings of the film will be held in local music venues at 7.30pm Sept 9, 2021. Check your local music venue for details and look for the hashtag
#IMAGINE50
on Twitter.
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No acoustic report. No sound proofing. No compliance with the planning agreement.
@ManCityCouncil
sticking to their line that this is the venue’s fault, and pursuing a course that will close
@nightanddaycafe
Leader singer of
@Elbow
@Guy_Garvey
has backed calls to save music venue
@nightanddaycafe
in Manchester, which could close after being issued a noise abatement notice.
More here:
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This is a really important question for all politicians of all parties everywhere.
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⬇️A THREAD- PLEASE RT⬇️
1/ AN OPEN LETTER TO
@RishiSunak
@OliverDowden
@BorisJohnson
Grassroots Music Venues: Viable Long Term Businesses
'Grassroots Music Venues have faced a tough couple of decades.
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After 3 years work, and all your support today,
@spellar
Agent of Change Bill has moved to a second reading on Friday 19 January.
We are immensely proud of everyone who has worked so hard to make this vital change. Thank you.
#SaveLiveMusic
#AgentofChange
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April’s
@allotmentprod
raffle is here! Want to be in for the chance of winning a signed
@doddleoddle
EP? Enter below.
All proceeds donated to
#saveourvenues
and
@WeNeedCrew
.
👉
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Good news Manchester:
@DeafInstitute
&
@thisisgorilla
safe.
Your turn Hull:
@giveitsomewelly
and
@PolarBearHull
still need saving.
#saveourvenues
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Either MCC act to
#SaveNightandDay
or they should just take down the billboards, switch off the marketing, drop the pretense, and prepare to close up shop on music.
If Manchester cannot protect the Night & Day it isn't a Music City.
Sign the petition:
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BECOME A VENUE ACTIVIST
In the next 14 days, 100s of Grassroots Music Venues right across the UK will find out if they will receive the funding they need to avoid permanent closure. The whole sector is on red alert for the decision about the distribution of government funding.
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Missed out on
#Glastonbury
tickets? A reminder that for about the same money you could go to about 34 gigs at your local grassroots music venue. Here’s our helpful national guide that can help you find them all
It would be lovely if
@glastonbury
RTed this
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On 18th Nov much loved GMV
@nightanddaycafe
in
#manchester
received a Noise Abatement Notice from
@ManCityCouncil
Housing with ill-considered planning & construction has been approved + built next to a pre-existing live music venue.
Please sign:
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An Open Letter to Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, United Kingdom: Cancel the Festival Of Britain 2022. Save Grassroots Culture.
READ:
SIGN THE PETITION:
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The guidelines for Pubs and Bars has been published. Live performances are not allowed.
The whole sector has played its part, done the right thing, and explored every option for grassroots music venues to open. There are no options available.
#saveourvenues
#dotherightthing
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We are living in one of the most difficult times ever for our live music industry. We have seen a reduction of more than 80% in revenue. Being one of the first industries to close and likely the last to reopen, the Cultural Recovery Fund was a lifeline for some businesses. (1/9)
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We are pleased to confirm that the majority of grassroots music venues are included in the performance spaces that are able to permit artists to conclude their performances post the 10pm curfew announced by HM Government yesterday.
#Curfew
#TheShowMustGoOn
@DCMS
@OliverDowden
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PRS WITHDRAWS ONLINE TARIFF
Read:
We warmly welcome
@PRSforMusic
's logical revision to the Online Small Scale Tariff announced last week, enabling songwriters to perform their own material without licence for streaming events.
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The
@GlassAnimals
X
@jackpotPB
collab has started shipping out their UK and EU orders. Don't forget to tag everyone when you receive yours! 😍
£2 from every sale to
#saveourvenues
🥜
👉
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Dear
@OliverDowden
An alternative 5 phase plan for reopening grassroots music venues:
Phase 1: Announcement of the sector support deal needed to prevent the complete collapse of the sector
Phase 2,3,4,5: TBC - if there is a sector remaining to be reopened.
#saveourvenues
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Dear
@NicolaSturgeon
A live music event with less than 100 people, 1m social distanced, with table service only, isn't a live music event.
Could you please say what you mean, which is that you are closing live music. Then we can all deal with the consequences of that decision.
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Delighted to announce this morning that the
#saveourvenues
fund has now surpassed #£1Million! 🎉
thanks to generous donations from
@beggarsgroup
@MayorofLondon
@amazonmusic
@SonyMusicUK
@KilimanjaroLive
@DHPFamily
@SJMconcerts
Read all about it:
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Thank you
@GregClarkMP
There is a broad agreement among MPs, across all parties, that swift and decisive action must be taken to protect grassroots music venues. The sector needs a £46million rescue, a roadmap to reopen, support to recover.
@OliverDowden
Rescue-Reopen-Recover
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STATEMENT:
The Government has today announced that the long awaited news we have all been working for is finally here: English Grassroots Music Venues will be able to reopen at full capacity from 19 July and restore live music to our communities in England.
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Change is possible.
Every person in this photo has contributed £1 to support grassroots music venues. And then the arena hosting the show matched it.
Change is possible, be part of it.
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BIG NEWS! Today
@sajidjavid
announced that
#AgentofChange
will be adopted into The National Planning Framework. Thank you to everyone who has supported our campaign over the last 3 years to reach this milestone! Big up
@spellar
@UK_Music
and
@WeAreTheMU
.
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Official statement on the Cultural Recovery Fund:
Huge thanks to
@DCMS
@ace_national
@OliverDowden
&
@RishiSunak
- you listened, acted and delivered.
#HereForCulture
#saveourvenues
#LetTheMusicPlay
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@RishiSunak
We'd like to thank
@OliverDowden
and the team at
@DCMS
for the opportunity to work closely together throughout this crisis to develop genuine solutions to the challenges faced by grassroots music venues.
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Day 3 of the
@PRSforMusic
Online Tariff debacle.
Hundreds of events cancelled, artists and songwriters losing money, audiences deprived of music.
And still PRS remain silent and take no action to correct this ill conceived and badly delivered Tariff.
‘For Music’?
#fixPRS
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There is no room for any kind of prejudice or racism. The music industry stands united against all forms of racism.
#nosilenceinmusic
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Distribution of the Cultural Recovery Fund, 1st round due on Monday 5 Oct, has been pulled and delayed until Mon 12 Oct. At 4pm on the Friday before decisions were due to be announced.
#CRFdelay
1. Who made this decision?
2. When?
3. Why?
@OliverDowden
@DCMS
@ace_national
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IMPORTANT: Could
@BorisJohnson
&
@RobertJenrick
pls confirm as a matter of urgency that the plans to 'Build Build Build' will maintain the protections within the National Planning Policy Framework introduced by the government in Jan 2018? Pls RT
@BBCNews
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Music Venue Trust can today announce that the
#saveourvenues
campaign, launched three weeks ago today, has now resulted in 140 grassroots music venues being removed from its ‘critical’ list. For more details:
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For clarity:
#HereForCulture
MVT has not applied for, nor received, any funding from the U.K. Government, from the Culture Recovery Fund or elsewhere. No grassroots music venue has paid MVT for any of the support we have been able to provide to them during this crisis.
1/3
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We are encouraging all venues to sign up to
@FeaturedArtists
brand new '100% Venues' directory - listing venues that charge no commission from merch sales at gigs. Something that is very important to our entire membership!
@peterhook
📢sign up here:
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In celebration of
#IWD2018
@musicvenuetrust
is delighted to announce an exciting new initiative in partnership with
@MusicPlanetLive
to find and support 100 new young female promoters and enable them to promote 100 new shows at 100 grassroots music venues.
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Quarterly Rent due tomorrow. 100s of grassroots music venues trying to work out if
@RishiSunak
@hmtreasury
have any proposal to protect them while they remain temporarily closed. Or do they need to give up hope, hand their keys to the landlord & permanently close?
#saveourvenues
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Final plea to
@ManCityCouncil
Your noise abatement action is going to close
@nightanddaycafe
if you win. You shouldn’t even be in court
Don’t throw away Manchester’s music heritage. Don’t throw culture under the bulldozer of development
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Official Announcement and Reaction here:
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@musicvenuetrust
x
@TNLUK
= The National Lottery Revive Live Tour
Feat
@realsirtomjones
@mahalia
@jamesarthur23
@ragnboneman
@samfendermusic
@fontainesdublin
@frankturner
& more.
For more info:
Tix on sale 12 July @ 8PM
#ComeTogether
to
#ReviveLive
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Day 7 of the
@PRSforMusic
debacle on online tariffs.
Tariff dropped. Thank you. We are working to get cancelled shows reinstated.
Now how about a constructive and informed discussion to create a grassroots tariff that respects and rewards the work of all songwriters?
#fixPRS
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BREAKING: Scottish Government announces help for Grassroots Music Venues.
-75% rates relief for grassroots music venues with a rateable value of less than £69,000 from 1 April 2020
-£80 million fund to provide grants of at least £3,000 to small businesses
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Steve Lamacq is the winner of the Music Venue Trust Outstanding Achievement Award for his support and commitment to Grassroots Music Venues. Thank you Steve!
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We did it!! The community raised £2,318,110 made up of 1212 investors for the
#OwnOurVenues
campaign. For more info on what happens now watch Mark’s video or read our full statement on our website ➡️
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This week Music Venue Trust is proud to announce
@OhWonderMusic
as new Artist Patrons! To read more about why they have become patrons and their support for grassroots music venues, head to our patron page here:
#patrons
#ohwonder
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Music Venue Properties announce first venue purchase with shares bought by the live music community!
@SnugAtherton
has become the first acquisition under
#OwnOurVenues
scheme!
Official Launch Event held today at The Snug to Celebrate new ownership +unveil a commemorative plaque!
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ENGLISH GOVERNMENT ROAD MAP TO REOPENING - OFFICIAL STATEMENT
The government has today provide conditions under which initially socially distanced events, on 17 May, and then fuller capacity events, from 21 June, can take place.
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While you're all sharing your musical highs this year, we wanted to remind you of some very real lows. This will only continue to happen unless we fight to keep our venues open.
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As we reach the end of a treacherous year, we thought we’d end it on a positive note.
This year, you helped us raise £3,872,512 for Grassroots Music Venues across the UK. These funds have been a vital lifeline to these venues and their staff throughout the ongoing crisis. (1/3)
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CORRECTION AND CLARIFICATION
Thank you for the many hundreds of comments, shares, questions and suggestions on yesterday's post regarding the central role that Grassroots Music Venues (GMVs) have played in the line up of
@glastonbury
this year. 1/5
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Last night MVT &
@IVW_UK
patron
@frankturner
online event raised over £10,000 and took
@joinerslive
off our critical list: 556 grassroots music venues facing imminent permanent closure is now 555.
Our CEO
@markdavyd
wants artists to know that together we could save them all.
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36% of Grassroots Music Venues Closed in the last ten years.
#10YearChallenge
#TenYearChallenge
Let's change this:
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Our CEO
@markdavyd
will be on
@BBCBreakfast
in about 20 minutes to discuss
#LetTheMusicPlay
#saveourvenues
and the action government can take to ensure our world class music industry and grassroots music venues aren’t lost to this crisis.
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We don’t normally retweet ourselves, but we are making an exception for the actual Road Map out of this crisis grassroots music venues need. Pls RT
We have an alternative Road Map to Reopen Every Venue Safely.
Please take a look
@OliverDowden
@BorisJohnson
@RishiSunak
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Spot on piece about the Culture Recovery Fund here from
@NME
Headline: Massive step forward in the fight to
#saveourvenues
90% of grassroots music venues applying to this fund were successful. Huge thanks to the teams at
@DCMS
&
@ace_national
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All of the conference rooms have been named after Venues which have closed over the last few years. Over the next week, we will feature a number of these venues and tell you about the history and the artists that graced their staged. We kick things off with the Astoria!
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🔥
@ENTERSHIKARI
have done what many people said no band of their size would do - support grassroots music venues by offering up a £1 levy on every ticket sold. Their UK tour celebrating
#1
album A Kiss For The Whole World kicks off soon - grab tickets at
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We warmly welcomes a new £5million investment in Grassroots Music Venues announced today by Secretary of State for Culture, Lucy Frazer. The additional funding will be made available over 2 years through the Supporting Grassroots Live Music Fund administered by
@ace_national
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It's the 55th anniversary of Love Me Do. Incredibly proud that
@PaulMcCartney
is one of our patrons. Without Caverns, we can't have Beatles
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We are asking music fans to
#GoLocal
and enjoy live music in safe environments by purchasing tickets and attending shows at your local Live Music Venue.
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We are starting our engines for the return of live music to every venue. We are launching our
#ReviveLive
campaign, which will provide venues with tools to support socially distanced events from 17 May, to build towards the full return of live music in England on 21 June. (1/2)
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Revive Live
After 15 long, difficult months, today is the day when Grassroots Music Venues across the country can finally begin the challenging journey back to bringing you the live music we all love. Read more below.
#ReviveLive
#SaveOurVenues
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Excited to announce
@Tim_Burgess
lead singer of
@thecharlatans
is our newest patron at MVT & has teamed up with
@flareaudio
to launch a brand new custom earphone. The project will help raise money for
#saveourvenues
Available to purchase from 26 March!!
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Breaking News: Live music and theatre industries launch legal action against Government to force the publication of Events Research Programme data.
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When will live music be able to safely return? Very thorough and informed discussion on festivals, arenas, concert halls and grassroots music venues in this excellent piece from the
@NME
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The Government has today announced that the long awaited news we have all been working for is finally here: English Grassroots Music Venues will be able to reopen at full capacity from 19 July and restore live music to our communities in England.
Read our full statement on Fb.
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Our patron
@RouReynolds
from
@ENTERSHIKARI
wrote an insightful piece on the importance of Grassroots Music Venues and why we should preserve them.
Find the full article (and a selection of others) in the ‘MVT Big Reads’ section:
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