Pledges have come in from Amazon Music, The BPI, Sony Music and the Mayor of London A new campaign to save over 550 of the UK’s grassroots music venues from permanent closure due to the coronavirus lockdown has surpassed £1 million in donations.
Last week, the Music Venue Trust launched the Save Our Venues campaign, with a crowdfunding bid to prevent 556 independent UK venues from closure.
A few have already been saved, but there is still a long way to go to prevent “damage that would undermine the UK music industry for 20-30 years.” MVT CEO Mark Davyd told NME that all of the government’s interventions to help venues essentially expired last Monday (April 27), when the sector started to “lose half a million pounds per day.” Now, it has