Against a tone-deaf Government, the battle to save live music is just beginning

was set to close due to the impact of coronavirus. It came as two of the six companies comprising UK event and venue management company, VMS Live, entered administration.Now, Mark Hall, the man responsible for the success of The Welly Club and for the elevation of The Polar Bear from pub to venue, and a team of other campaigners have started a Crowdfunder campaign to save The Polar Bear.“We want to run The Polar Bear for the people of Hull,” a statement reads.

the Music Venue Trust and the #SaveOurVenues campaign, a bottled range of lager, cider and IPA are available to order from home to raise money while live music remains on hold due to COVID-19.“In the decade to 2018, 35% of music venues closed by noise complaints, gentrification and soaring rents,” Fightback Creative director Gary Prosser told NME.

Paul McCartney has opened up about the time he sued The Beatles in order to “save” their music and company, Apple.In a new interview with GQ, McCartney elaborated on what he described as one of the biggest “misconceptions” of The Beatles split saying that he had no option but to sue the band in order to protect their music.McCartney officially announced his departure from the band in April 1970 and later that year, filed a law suit which called for the group’s formal dissolution.After years of

obtained by Britain’s Daily Mirror, Jennifer Howell – a pal of Heard’s sister Whitney Henriquez and mother Paige – revealed the latter told her that billionaire Musk was suing the actress.“Paige told me…. she was in a legal battle with him over the rights to embryos they had created together,” she shared.

The love story of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is one that began with an actress “captivated” by a Hollywood king, but it ended in acrimony with conflicting accounts of what happened played out in a bitter court battle for all the world to see.

During her time in the witness box, Amber Heard faced questioning about two men in her life – Elon Musk and James Franco.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerYes, there’s still music being made. Taylor Swift stunned the world by dropping an unexpected eighth album, forever, this week.

A new bill in the House Representatives aims to keep struggling independent music venues afloat during the ongoing pandemic. Introduced Thursday by Reps. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Mike K

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coronavirus pandemic was submitted by senators John Cornyn and Amy Klobuchar yesterday (July 22).The Bill would provide six months of financial support to keep venues afloat, pay employees and seek to preserve an economic sector that has been hit in most states since mid-March.“Texas is home to a number of historic and world-class small entertainment venues, many of which remain shuttered after being the first businesses to close,” Cornyn said in a statement to Billboard.“The culture around

The Deadline Team (Press Association) Amber Heard has claimed she punched Johnny Depp to stop him pushing her sister down the stairs after remembering a “rumour” he had done the same to Kate Moss.The Aquaman actress told the High Court that this “information” was “fresh in my mind” during the alleged incident in 2015, and she reacted “in a flash” to protect her sibling.Heard, 34, made the claim in her second day of giving evidence in her ex-husband’s libel action against The Sun newspaper over a

LONDON — American actress Amber Heard denied in court on Tuesday that she had an affair with Tesla chief Elon Musk, or anyone else, while she was married to Johnny Depp.

coronavirus crisis, despite the government’s recent £1.57billion bailout for venues and arts spaces.“The Deaf Institute and Gorilla have been at the forefront of the music scene in Manchester for many years and it is with great sadness that we announce that we will not be reopening,” Roy Ellis, Mission Mars CEO and founder told Manchester Evening News.“This difficult decision has been made against the backdrop of COVID 19 and the enforced closure of all of our sites and with continued

Johnny Depp has claimed he battled deadly bug MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) after undergoing surgery to reattach his severed finger.The actor returned to London’s High Court on Monday for a fifth day giving testimony as part of his libel case against News Group Newspapers, over a story published in Britain’s The Sun newspaper in 2018 which branded him a “wife beater.”During his testimony, the Pirates of the Caribbean star was asked about an alleged scuffle on March 23, 2015,