The UK live music industry has joined together for the first time to formally launch its own industry body, LIVE. It follows a year of devastation due to Covid-19 and ...
The music industry has reacted strongly to the news that Glastonbury Festival will endure another enforced fallow year, with many calling the cancellation a "devastating" blow.
Phil Bowdery, chair of ...
Grassroots music venues in England will be allowed to sell alcohol at ticketed live shows when the current lockdown ends on Wednesday December 2, it has been confirmed.
The announcement ...
More than 26,000 permanent live music industry jobs will be lost in the UK before the end of the year if government support is withdrawn, according to newly published research. ...
The UK's live industry has backed a renewed call from the DCMS select committee for robust government action to save the culture sector from collapse.
It is calling on the ...
The UK's live music industry has welcomed the findings of the Department For Digital, Culture, Media And Sport (DCMS) committee report on Covid-19's impact on the cultural industries.
The report, ...
More than 1,500 artists have issued an urgent plea for support from the UK government during what would have been the busy festival season.
Alongside thousands of crew and ...
Concert Promoters Association chairman Phil Bowdery has told Music Week it has been a testing year for the live sector, but backed it to rebound in 2020.
As Live Nation ...
Phil Bowdery kept a unique souvenir from the first stadium gig he ever promoted. It was the opening UK date of Michael Jackson’s Bad tour at London’s Wembley Stadium in ...
Music Venue Trust is celebrating a funding breakthrough for grassroots venues.
At an event co-hosted by Arts Council England and Ticketmaster at The Great Escape, Arts Council England launched its ...