Music Venue Trust distributes £230,000 to 24 of the UK’s grassroots music venues in crisis

Jordan Adetunji has been announced as the Northern Ireland ambassador for Independent Venue Week 2021.Last month saw Arlo Parks announced as the England ambassador for the eighth edition of the annual seven-day celebration of independent music venues around the UK (taking place from January 25 to 31), before Super Furry Animals’ legend Gruff Rhys was confirmed yesterday to be representing Wales.Now, rising Belfast alternative hip-hop artist and songwriter Jordan Adetunji has been added to the

Isle Of Wight Festival boss John Giddings has told NME about his plan for live crew workers and music venues to come together for a mass roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine.Giddings, who also works as a promoter and music agent, made his suggestion on Twitter last night (January 5), urging the UK Government to make the most of the skills of the thousands of event and live crew unable to work at present, as well as the countless music venues unable to open their doors due to coronavirus

Gruff Rhys has been announced as Independent Venue Week 2021’s ambassador for Wales.Having already announced Arlo Parks as the England ambassador for the eighth edition of the annual, seven-day celebration of independent music venues around the UK (taking place from January 25 to 31), now the Super Furry Animals legend will be joining her to spotlight the grassroots music community of his native Wales.“As a touring musician – my work is completely connected to having independent venues exist,”

Animated feature Kensuke’s Kingdom, based on the Michael Morpurgo novel, Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction and the Studiocanal-released Saint Maud were among the films to receive the highest level of support from the British Film Institute’s production and distribution funds this year.

their #SaveOurVenues campaign has raised over £3.8 million this year for crisis-hit grassroots music venues across the UK.Launched back in April after music venues up and down the country were forced to close their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the ongoing campaign is aiming to offer both financial and human support to venues during the health crisis.In an end-of-year statement, the MVT said they wanted “to acknowledge all the remarkable work that has been done this year to shield our

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Living,” an upcoming film starring Bill Nighy, has sold United Kingdom distribution rights to Lionsgate.Set in London in the 1950s, “Living” centers on Williams (portrayed by Nighy), a veteran civil servant who becomes a cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post WWII England. As the job starts to consume him, he learns he has seven months to live.

Jason Leitch said further research was required on the latest mutation of the virus but added experts were so far confident it would not be able to resist the jabs currently being rolled out to health workers and care home residents. It comes as UK health secretary Matt Hancock warned today the country faced an “enormous challenge” controlling the new strain after scientists found it was able to spread more rapidly.

A government-backed fund set up to support UK independent cinemas during the pandemic has awarded £16M to a total of 202 venues to date.

The MVT has continued to work to protect and preserve live music in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced gig spaces across the country to close their doors.

Pantoland at the London Palladium.

direct to your inboxStood at the counter of a hardware store waiting to collect an order, this is terrorist Salman Abedi shopping for components to make his deadly bomb.Abedi's movements over five days before the Manchester Arena attack on May 22, 2017, were plotted by police through CCTV.Meanwhile, the detective who led the criminal investigation into the bombing said it would 'always' remain open.Operation Manteline was one of the largest police investigations ever to be carried out in the UK,

Kate Moss dropped her very first merch line and she tapped her daughter, Lila, to help model the clothes.“Since everyone was living in hoodies in lockdown the team at the agency and I decided it would be fun to create some merchandise of our own,” the 46-year-old British supermodel and style icon told WWD in an interview from December 3.So back in November, she dropped a super cool loungewear line through her creative agency KMA Studio.