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News coverage of the live side of the music industry, including live music and ticketing companies, venues, festivals, innovation and legal reform
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Live industry news including ticketing, venues, festivals and more
Outgoing Leadmill team left building “vandalised” and in a “wrecked state”, says landlord, who still hopes to reopen in February public
The Leadmill • 3 min read

Outgoing Leadmill team left building “vandalised” and in a “wrecked state”, says landlord, who still hopes to reopen in February

The team who ran Sheffield’s The Leadmill venue have vacated the building after being evicted by their landlord, The Electric Group, which will now run the space. The outgoing team pledged to gut the building before they left, which they have. The results are “devastating” according to the landlord…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
Industry welcomes ten step plan for “rebalancing the licensing regime” of UK festivals and venues public
Live industry news including ticketing, venues, festivals and more • 2 min read

Industry welcomes ten step plan for “rebalancing the licensing regime” of UK festivals and venues

The UK government has published ten recommendations from an industry taskforce that was asked to review how pubs, clubs, venues and events are licensed, 20 years on from the last Licensing Act. The music industry says the recommendations include many “positive, business friendly measures”…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
UK government says it will ramp up ‘agent of change’ as it seeks to simplify the licensing of night-time businesses public
Live industry news including ticketing, venues, festivals and more • 3 min read

UK government says it will ramp up ‘agent of change’ as it seeks to simplify the licensing of night-time businesses

The UK government has published a Plan For Change that aims to simplify the licensing of bars, clubs and music venues. It includes ramping up the ‘agent of change’ principle, which was added to planning guidelines in 2018, but the industry says those guidelines have been too open to interpretation…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
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