The UK’s nightlife needs to avoid more ‘systematic cutting’ to stop becoming ‘stale’, the Association for Electronic Music chief executive has warned.
Mark Lawrence, the organisation’s CEO made the comments as part of the Save Our Clubs panel session at the Brighton Music Conference (BMC).
He said: ‘From a global perspective, you can see this systematic cutting at nightlife from Sydney to Rio to Detroit to Bangalore.
'If you allow that to carry on then you end up with this long-term unintended consequence - less venues, less new DJs, promoters and managers and you lose your future because you haven’t developed the community. Therefore commercially and creatively you have a very stale nightlife ahead of you.’
The panel, which also featured Alan Millar from the Night Time Industry Association, agreed that a night time ambassador would be a good idea providing the role holder is taken seriously by the authorities.
Commenting, he added: ‘The idea of an ambassador for night time is really good and useful as long as it has teeth and is listened to. What we don’t want is a situation like in Paris where the night time champion is ignored.’
Elsewhere at the event, a PRS for Music representative highlighted how music recognition technology could play an increasingly important role in online licensing.
Read our previous stories from the 2016 BMC event.
Mark Lawrence, the organisation’s CEO made the comments as part of the Save Our Clubs panel session at the Brighton Music Conference (BMC).
He said: ‘From a global perspective, you can see this systematic cutting at nightlife from Sydney to Rio to Detroit to Bangalore.
'If you allow that to carry on then you end up with this long-term unintended consequence - less venues, less new DJs, promoters and managers and you lose your future because you haven’t developed the community. Therefore commercially and creatively you have a very stale nightlife ahead of you.’
The panel, which also featured Alan Millar from the Night Time Industry Association, agreed that a night time ambassador would be a good idea providing the role holder is taken seriously by the authorities.
Commenting, he added: ‘The idea of an ambassador for night time is really good and useful as long as it has teeth and is listened to. What we don’t want is a situation like in Paris where the night time champion is ignored.’
Elsewhere at the event, a PRS for Music representative highlighted how music recognition technology could play an increasingly important role in online licensing.
Read our previous stories from the 2016 BMC event.
