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Coronavirus: 160 beloved live music venues at risk of closure - here's how you can help

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More than 160 of Britain’s live music venues are at risk due to the Coronavirus lockdown, the Mirror can reveal. Lockdown rules have put scores of beloved clubs and theatres - which have hosted early performances by music legends including Oasis, Nirvana and Adele - “on life support”.

It follows warnings that thousands of jobs will be lost and the music industry will suffer £900 million in losses without urgent Government action.

New analysis shows some 165 live music venues have launched crowdfunding appeals, calling on the public to chip in to help them survive.

And the Music Venues Trust, which has launched a ‘Save Our Venues’ campaign to fundraise for grassroots venues across the country, says more than 400 are “at risk of imminent

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