Kevin Brennan MP, Carla Marie Williams, Crispin Hunt and the late Rupert Hine have been named as the first recipients of an Ivors Academy Honour.
The new award brings back ...
The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) has increased the pressure on venues who continue to make deductions from merch sales.
Some venues take up to 25% of artists’ revenues (plus VAT) ...
Paul Pacifico will leave the UK’s Association of Independent Music (AIM) at the end of 2022, Music Week can reveal.
The organisation said that his decision marks the end of ...
An influential cross-party group of MPs and peers issued a major report today calling on the government to remove the barriers facing UK musicians touring the EU.
The move follows ...
European indies trade body IMPALA has underlined its opposition to the system of equitable remuneration for music streaming.
It comes as France and Belgium have opted for a different approach ...
MPs and Peers have elected Kevin Brennan MP as the new chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music.
With more than 100 members, the group is one of the ...
The past 12 months has seen a high-stakes argument about the future direction of the music business, which increased in volume during the hearings for the DCMS Committee inquiry into ...
Kevin Brennan MP introduced his much-trailed Private Member’s Bill on proposed reforms to musicians’ remuneration in the House Of Commons.
The second reading of Brennan’s music streaming Bill took place ...
MPs will debate a Private Member’s Bill from Kevin Brennan on Friday (December 3) that proposes far-reaching reforms to the music industry.
Following the DCMS Committee streaming investigation, in ...
Labour MP Kevin Brennan brings to Parliament his Private Member’s Bill on Friday (December 3).
With the music industry debating the ramifications of the MP’s proposals to ‘fix streaming’, ...
