In the new issue of Music Week, we speak to a host of key names from the black music community to look at the impact the #TheShowMustBePaused initiative had ...
It was the final, inevitable cancellation of Reading & Leeds Festivals that did it for me.
That was the definitive signal that this summer is a write-off as far as ...
Boris Johnson's lockdown address last night contained little of substance for the music industry.
While the Prime Minister did announce some minor lifting of restrictions, it won't be until June ...
Tom Watson was viewed as something of a polarising figure during his time in politics – and some in the music biz are also unconvinced by the former Labour Party ...
If the old stockmarket adage that ‘good investing is boring’ is true, there are some reassuring signs for public music companies right now.
Because, while the stockmarket crash for various ...
The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has hit the £1 million mark in its fundraising effort to save the UK’s grassroots venues from closure during the coronavirus crisis.
Beggars Group, ...
“You make your money in live.”
As music industry received wisdom goes, that phrase has served people pretty well over the last two decades, as first piracy and then streaming ...
Much of the world may have ground to a halt, but it seems not even the coronavirus pandemic can call a halt to the Big Machine-Taylor Swift feud.
Last ...
Sybil Bell may have come late to the music industry, but the founder of Independent Venue Week has certainly made a big impact. After abandoning a life in IT, she ...
