Music industry celebrates as over 1,000 venues, festivals and arts spaces are awarded CRF funding to survive until April

163 organisations in our region awarded grants, an additional 32 venues in Greater Manchester have been added to the list of grantees.

‘Survival Tour’ have raised over £30,000 so far for live music and events workers in the UK.The five main ‘Survival Tour’ cyclists, who are all live events professionals, completed their 15-day ride from Newcastle to London yesterday (October 18) to raise money for those who work in the live events industry, which has been blighted this year by the coronavirus pandemic.The ‘Survival Tour’, which visited over 50 entertainment venues and festival sites in cities such as Nottingham, Bristol and

coronavirus and over 16,000 people have tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hour reporting period. According to the latest figures from the UK government a total of 150 people had died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of October 17, 2020 - up from 98 recorded on Friday.The jump in deaths is the biggest single-day increase since June 10 and higher than last Saturday, when 81 were recorded.

Billboard).Listing hundreds of experienced Black tour managers, production managers, sound engineers, lighting experts, stage and set designers and more, the professionals featured in the new directory can be contacted via the official site.“When Jenifer Smith from Live Nation Concerts and NyAsia Burris from my team came to me with this idea, I thought it was genius and absolutely necessary,” Live Nation Urban president Shawn Gee explained.“There are several amazing resource groups that exist

‘Economics of music streaming’ inquiry expected to be held at the end of November.The Committee will look at “the business models” operated by such streaming giants as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google Play.

COVID-19 forced their widespread cancellation this summer.The new planning framework is led by the Association of Festival Organisers (AFO), the Events Industry Forum (EIF) and Attitude Is Everything, alongside additional guidance from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and Public Health England (PHE).Covering eight key themes, the document includes the suggestion that festival-goers could be forced to wear face-masks in a bid to curb the spread of the disease.Under the

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Killer Mike is lobbying to get a bill passed to help save music industry workers in the US who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.Taking to Instagram to share a clip of himself appearing on Bloomberg News, the Run The Jewels rapper discussed the need to pass a bill that will deliver a stimulus package to those in need.“One thing people don’t realize is how much hard work goes into show businesses, not just by the artists and actors, but by the folks that work with their hands, the

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s new job support scheme, claiming that their sector feels “ignored” by both the plans and the government.Announced last Friday (October 9) and set to launch on November 1, the scheme will benefit employees who work for UK firms that are forced to shut by law due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

Kanye West took to Twitter to declare the music industry (and NBA) “modern day slave ships”, as he sought to regain the rights to his master recordings. He explained: “When you sign a music deal you sign away your rights.

Last week marked the start of Black History Month, where from 1 October - 31 October, an annual observance recognised in, amongst other places, the UK and the US. 

Haim is dishing up cold cuts and imagery in the music video for “Man From The Magazine”.

breakdown in talks this week between Donald Trump‘s administration and the Democrats over a COVID-19 relief bill.NIVA, who represent over 2000 independent venues across the US, issued a statement last night (October 6) in response to the breakdown in talks, saying that they “have been sounding the alarm since April that if our members don’t get emergency assistance, they will go under forever — and it’s happening”.“This is real.

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There have been a further 12,872 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK in the last 24 hours, the Government has announced.It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 480,017.The number of cases have nearly doubled in the last 24 hours, from 6,968 lab cases on Friday.A further 49 people have died after 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of UK deaths to 42,317.Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been nearly

Christine & The Queens has shared a lengthy pair of new Instagram posts, sharing her experiences of sexism in the music industry.The posts came in support of the #MusicToo movement in France, who describe themselves as an “anonymous collective against gender-based and sexual violence in the music industry”.“I am not surprised to learn that, in the musical world, as in all other circles, the liberation of speech generates an upheaval that it is then difficult to master,” she wrote in the posts,