A controversy is emerging in the US over some artists’ applications for grants from a program called the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant.
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‘Economic reality’ puts paid to Animal Collective’s UK and EU tour
American band Animal collective announced yesterday that they have cancelled their upcoming tour of the UK and Europe.
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UK Music’s latest report explores industry’s pandemic recovery
The British music industry’s umbrella body, UK Music, has published its latest ‘This Is Music’ annual report this week. Alongside it, the body has called for more support from the British government for musicians and music companies.
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Dice CEO talks live music habits, hybrid tours and Germany
Ticketing and livestreams firm Dice expanded to Germany this month, having raised $122m of funding last September.
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Spotify adds Covid warnings and tests podcast discovery feature
At the height of the controversy over Joe Rogan’s podcast and Covid-19 misinformation, Spotify revealed plans to add a ‘content advisory’ warning.
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Spanish 18 year-olds to receive €400 of ‘culture vouchers’ each
The Spanish government has revealed its latest effort to help the creative and cultural industries bounce back from Covid-19: the Youth Cultural Bonus.
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ASCAP collected record $1.34bn in 2021 despite Covid-19 pandemic
2021 was the year the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on music was expected to be felt most strongly for many songwriters, but what about collecting societies.
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Australian music industry calls for Covid-19 live fund
As a new wave of Covid-19 restrictions hit the Australian live music business, a group of industry bodies is calling for more support from the government there.
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Music Venue Trust warns grassroots venues ‘on brink of collapse’
As the Omicron Covid-19 variant sweeps across the world, there’s a very real prospect of more restrictions and even all-out shutdowns for live music in the coming months.
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Vaccine passports required to attend many concerts in England from 15 December
As the Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly, the UK Government has rushed through “Plan B” vaccine passport and facemark restrictions in England.
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Help Musicians warns that Covid-19 catastrophe is not over
UK-based charity Help Musicians surveyed British professional musicians a year ago and found that 55% were not earning anything at all from music, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Have things improved? They have a bit: a new survey conducted by the charity in August 2021 found that the percentage earning nothing from their music has fallen to 33%.
It’s still a third though, with 83% saying that ‘an inconsistency of bookings is stalling their ability to get their careers back on track’ and that 22% are considering leaving the industry.
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Japan and South Korea begin to ease live-events restrictions
Slowly, and not always as surely as our industry would like, the live music industry is opening up again after its Covid-19 shutdowns.