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ARTISTES WHO won festival slots at Larmer Tree (cap. 5,000) via its Breakthrough Music Award are already finding wider recognition according to the festival’s Lyndsey Harvey. Winners of the 2018 event, Arcade Hearts, are now on their first headline tour, while Laura Goldthorp, who scooped the solo artiste award, has…
Read moreCAMPAIGNERS HAVE welcomed the announcement of a £1.5 million Arts Council England (ACE) fund specifically aimed at grassroots music venues and promoters. People working in the sector can apply to the Supporting Grassroots Live Music fund for grants of £1,000-40,000. Money is available to organisations whose main function is hosting…
Read moreTHE ANNIVERSARY tour of Def Leppard’s 1977 Hysterical LP required a “steelyard” of overhead truss to support lighting and screens, and create architectural features to fit lighting designer Kenji Ohashi’s vision for the show. The tour, which visited venues including Manchester Arena (cap. 21,000), London’s The SSE Arena, Wembley (12,500)…
Read moreTHE CARDIFF venue that hosted early performances by artistes such as Adele, Stormzy and James Bake has closed after 14 years. The 150-capacity Buffalo Bar in the city’s central Windsor Place, announced its closure on social media at the start of the year, citing rising business rates as the reason….
Read moreTHE MUSIC Managers Forum (MMF) has announced the winners of its Accelerator programme, run in partnership with YouTube Music. Twelve-month grants of up to £15,000 were made available (see LIVE UK 226) for music managers and 24 winners have been awarded. They include Callum Reece of Wommat Management, Rachel Millar…
Read moreAttraction Management, London E: ed@attractionmgmt.com Your artiste roster: Peace, The Old Pink House Favourite venues for seeing and/or showcasing new artistes: Oslo (London) The Garage (London) The Cluny (Newcastle) Broadcast (Glasgow) Village Underground (London) and The Church (Leeds). How important is it for artistes to play live: “For artistes, playing…
Read moreUS SINGER Halsey based the stage of her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom tour around a central LED staircase designed to show off her fluid movement around the stage according to lighting director and operator Jose Antunes. When she visited the UK for a date at London’s Eventim Apollo (cap. 5,050), her…
Read moreTWELVE EMERGING artistes will benefit from a slice of £220,000 awarded by the Department for International Trade (DIT) to help then tour internationally. The latest round of Music Export Growth Scheme (MEGS) funding will support acts including Nina Nesbitt, YolanDa Brown and The Twilight Sad in reaching foreign markets. It…
Read moreA NEW independent fund to support music managers in England and Scotland has been launched by the Music Managers Forum (MMF), in partnership YouTube Music. Twelve-month grants of up to £15,000 are available, as well as training, mentoring and advice from industry professionals. The MMF says it envisages the grants…
Read moreHAVING BEEN closed for more than a year, South London’s The Bedford (cap. 250) in Balham is set to officially reopen, after a soft launch this month. Its owner, Three Cheers Pub Company invested £3.45 million in upgrading the venue, which played a part in launching the careers of Ed…
Read morePROMOTER WILLIAM Nicklen of Crown Promotion & Management is encouraging more acts to include to include a date at The Lincoln Imp (cap. 300) in Scunthorpe on their national tours. He says a momentum of good audiences has been building at the venue and he wants to keep it going….
Read moreFORMER MUSE tour director Glen Rowe is seeking support for his charitable NEKO Trust, formerly known as Cato Trust, which hopes will begin opening new small-capacity venues across the country in 2020. Cato, which was set up in 2005 and ran a scheme collecting donations from people on concert guest…
Read more59 Stratford Road, Milton Keynes, MK12 5LT, Bucks Bookings: Jason Hall and Max Harvey T: 01908 313864 E: Underpass@hotmail.co.uk W: www.TheCraufurdarms.com Capacity: 275 PA/lights: Yes Dressing rooms: Two Booking policy: “We book 7 days a week, there is an Open Mic night on the last Wednesday of every month,…
Read morePRS FOUNDATION points to nearly half of this year’s artistes nominated for a Mercury Award benefitting from funding at some point in their career. Senior grants and programme manager Joe Frankland says that the continued appearance of PRSF-funded artistes in this and other award nominations shows a strengthening of ties…
Read moreATC Live, London E: chris@atc-live.com Your artiste roster: Admiral Fallow, Beverly, Catholic Action, Estrons, Fazerdaze, Hannah Peel, Lewis Watson, LUCIA, Lucy Spraggan, Mozes & The Firstborn, Partner, Sad13, Sleeper, SuperGlu, The Lottery Winners, The Mavericks, The Veils, We Are Scientists Favourite venues for seeing and/or showcasing new artistes: St Pancras…
Read moreFOCUS WALES, the multi-venue conference and industry festival held in Wrexham is looking for acts to perform at the various showcase evenings scheduled across the city. Co-founder Andy Jones says that buzz around the event has been rising rapidly each year, not only in terms of those hoping to perform,…
Read moreTHE ACADEMY of Music & Sound is offering free rehearsal spaces in its Exeter, Southampton and Gateshead campuses, to any unsigned artistes interested in using them during the summer, subject to availability. Head of UK and international digital marketing Louise Schofield says that it is far better to put the spaces…
Read moreACADEMY EVENTS and whisky company Fireball’s Fuelling the Fire Tour is accepting applications from artistes hoping to open for a line-up that includes Face to Face, Lost in Stereo and Flogging Molly. The Fireball Hottest Band 2019 Competition, in association with Kerrang! will see four regional heats taking place in…
Read moreRHYS FIERY, previously events manager for The Nest (cap. 220) in Bath, is now promoting with business partner Paul James under the name NightBus in the Bristol area. The pair plan to turn Mr Wolf’s (cap. 75) into a venue that hosts regular indie and rock shows. Friery, who has…
Read morePERFORMANCE ROYALTY collection society PRS For Music and the Musician’s Union have been conducting a series of free workshop-style events across the North East, with performance slots available at three remaining dates on the tour at the time of going to press. Events have so far covered Halifax and Preston,…
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