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Setlist: The COVID crisis pushes the live industry to the brink

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 29 June 2020

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including fears that – with lockdown lifting and the economy getting started again – the live music industry will be left to collapse without much needed government support, and the two house music pioneers suing the Trax record label.

SECTION TIMES
01: The COVID crisis pushes the live industry to the brink (00:01:43)
02: House music pioneers sue Trax Records (00:23:18)

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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• With relaxed social distancing rules not helping live music, UK live industry again calls for extra government support
• Government needs to make a £50 million cash injection to save the UK’s grassroots venue network, says MVT
• Hundreds of grassroots music venues back call for £50 million cash injection from government
• NTIA says revisions to UK lockdown rules unworkable even for businesses who qualify
• Glastonbury “would seriously go bankrupt” if forced to cancel in 2021 too
• Backed by TaP Music, Chicago house pioneers sue Trax Records

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