Gigs might fly: LIVE MUSIC’s last chance?

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Hundreds of thousands of people should be heading to Glastonbury right now. Instead the live music industry is hanging on by its fingernails, hundreds of venues are threatened with closure, and the Government hasn’t included music in its ‘Cultural Renewal Taskforce’. Music agent JAMES WRIGHT of United Talent Agency talks to Andrew Harrison about what this multi-billion pound industry needs to survive. “Music is this country’s cultural background. And it’s being taken away from people.” “Our business just doesn’t work with ANY social distancing in place.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
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1:14.4	along public transport with a tent, wellies and plastic bottles full of DIY summer cocktails
1:19.2	on my way to Glastonbury. That's not happening this year and suddenly all those old joke features about how to recreate
1:24.8	Glaston aren't such a joke anymore. The live music industry has been devastated by the pandemic.
1:30.3	Venues that have closed may never reopen and generations of artists who've been told
1:34.0	that playing live would replace their lost income from record sales now find that they can't play live
1:39.0	either. Meanwhile, the government found no space for a representative from the music business on its cultural
1:44.0	renewal task force but did have space for the English National Ballet's artistic director and the
1:48.8	founder of last minute dot com. Is this an industry killer for a business that before the pandemic generated 5.2 billion
1:55.8	annually and a further 2.7 billion in export revenue?
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