this leaves England’s grassroots music venues with the cancellation of over 4,000 gigs in the coming weeks and a combined loss of £36million – having a further catastrophic impact for staff, crew, artists and the club bosses unable to pay rent.
Elsewhere, night club industry bosses are also warning of mass evictions without urgent funding and clarity.Now in response to NME, the government have revealed plans to share the final £300million of the Cultural Recovery Fund – which previously provided music and arts businesses and bodies with £1.57billion of support.“We understand a delay to full reopening is challenging for live events, and we will be helping our creative industries through it,” a DCMS spokesperson told NME.
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