Noise complaints and planning legislation are two of the biggest threats to the UK’s small venues, an interim report has claimed.
The Music Venue Trust’s Understanding Small Music Venues interim report has outlined some of the challenges facing the UK music’s grassroots network of venues.
According to the organisation, the full findings of the report will be published in March – it aims to outline how these venues operate and the challenges they need to overcome.
Mark Davyd, chief executive of the Music Venue Trust, said: ‘There is a national challenge to our live music venue circuit brought about by a sequence of events and developments which have left that network in a perilous and precarious state. Music Venue Trust feels that we need to take an overall view of the challenges out there.
‘We feel that past failures to talk about the ecosystem of UK music have meant that people who don't actively work in it perhaps don’t understand the structure of the industry, or the vital role that this network of venues plays in maintaining it.’
107 participated in the research project which is still ongoing.
The interim announcement comes midway during Independent Venue Week (IVW), an initiative set up to showcase the importance of the smaller venues with live gigs.
Check out our interviews with IVW ambassador Frank Turner and rockers You Me At Six on how playing these small stages helped give them a leg up on their careers.
The Music Venue Trust’s Understanding Small Music Venues interim report has outlined some of the challenges facing the UK music’s grassroots network of venues.
According to the organisation, the full findings of the report will be published in March – it aims to outline how these venues operate and the challenges they need to overcome.
Mark Davyd, chief executive of the Music Venue Trust, said: ‘There is a national challenge to our live music venue circuit brought about by a sequence of events and developments which have left that network in a perilous and precarious state. Music Venue Trust feels that we need to take an overall view of the challenges out there.
‘We feel that past failures to talk about the ecosystem of UK music have meant that people who don't actively work in it perhaps don’t understand the structure of the industry, or the vital role that this network of venues plays in maintaining it.’
107 participated in the research project which is still ongoing.
The interim announcement comes midway during Independent Venue Week (IVW), an initiative set up to showcase the importance of the smaller venues with live gigs.
Check out our interviews with IVW ambassador Frank Turner and rockers You Me At Six on how playing these small stages helped give them a leg up on their careers.
