Grassroots venues still without pilot gigs but music fans are “overwhelmingly ready” to return

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Blossoms, The Lathums and Zuzu all set to perform to 5,000 fans at Liverpool’s Sefton Park – as well as the city also hosting a two-day nightclub pilot featuring the likes of Fatboy Slim and The Blessed Madonna.

Meanwhile in London, next month’s BRIT Awards have also been earmarked to feature an audience for a COVID test event.However, the Music Venue Trust have said that while they welcome these pilot shows, “it isn’t at all clear how anything learned from these events will directly help us to open the Hull Adelphi, 100 Club London, Tunbridge Wells Forum, Bristol Exchange or any of the other 950 grassroots music venues across the country that want to Revive Live music and get audiences back in front of musicians in our communities.”Music.