A post shared by Black Lives in Music (@blacklivesinmusic)“Our events get cancelled – just because they’re a Bollywood event, or it could be jazz, or it could be drum and bass, it could be any genre that attracts a black and brown audience.”She added: “It happens time and time again and it’s happening even today, where venue owners and promoters will have to fill out ‘temporary event notices’ just so they can put on an event after 9.30pm“Sometimes the event might be a jazz ensemble, playing at a cultural hub and they would get rejected [by the local council]. But when you leave that cultural hub and walk down the road, the pub’s still open, playing the same music that they wouldn’t be allowed to play.“This happens week to week, there’s cancellations of events happening up and down the country, particularly in London… and it’s not spoken about because there is a culture of silence.
