Press
First UK live music census warns of threats to small venues (The Independent, 17/02/18)
Good Morning Scotland news bulletin 160218 (BBC Radio Scotland, 16/02/18, 5’19)
Census highlights problems facing live music venues (BBC Scotland, 16/02/18)
Beverley Whitrick [of Music Venue Trust] speaking on Sky News 16th Feb 2018 (Sky News, 16/02/18)
Third of music venues under financial threat, national survey shows (Sky News, 16/02/18)
Small music venues face final curtain (The Times, 16/02/18)
Independent live music venues under threat as property developers close in, census warns (The i, 16/02/18)
Glasgow’s live music scene brings in £80m a year and supports 2,500 jobs, census shows (iNews, 16/02/18)
Fresh fears over future of live music venues (The Scotsman, 16/02/18)
Fears over long-term future over Scotland’s legendary small music venues (The Herald, 16/02/18)
Property development is having a negative impact on one third of Britain’s small venues (NME, 16/02/18)
UK Live Music Census shows pressure on venues (IQ, 16/02/18)
New report confirms issues faced by grassroots venues (CMU, 16/02/18)
UK’s first live music census warns of threats to small venues (Music Week, 16/02/18)
Live music census pushes resale investigations (TheTicketingBusiness, 16/02/18)
UK’s First Live Music Census Reveals Ongoing Threats to Small Venues (Musicians’ Union, 16/02/18)
LGA responds to UK live music census (Local Government Association, 16/02/18)
One in three small venues affected by property development, report finds (M Magazine, 16/02/18)
Live music census strikes note of caution over future of venues (Record of the Day, 16/02/18)
Third of music venues under financial threat, national survey shows (Gorgeous FM, 16/02/18)
Threats to future of music venues revealed in first live music census (Milngavie Herald, 16/02/18)
Emma Webster on BBC Radio Oxford with Sophie Law (01/09/17 – 12mins, 24 secs in)
Adam Behr on BBC Introducing in the North East with Nick Roberts (11/03/17 – 1 hour, 21mins, 30 secs in)
Students from Buckinghamshire New University watched more than 16 bands at eight gigs in Oxford on one night as part of first ever UK Live Music Census (Oxford Mail, 10/03/17)
Adam Behr on BBC Radio Kent, Dominic King Show (10/03/17 – 1 hours, 33mins, 35 secs in)
Matt Brennan on BBC Breakfast (BBC One, 10/03/17 – 46 mins in)
Matt Brennan on Radio 4’s Today programme (BBC Radio 4, 10/03/17 – 1 hr 47 mins in)
Matt Brennan on Good Morning Scotland (BBC Radio Scotland, 10/03/17 – 1 hr 57 mins in)
How big is live music really? (BBC News, 10/03/17)
Martin Cloonan on the Stephen Jardine Programme (BBC Radio Scotland, 10/03/17 – 1 hr 31 mins in)
Adam Behr on Good Morning Wales (BBC Radio Wales, 10/03/17 –
Emma Webster on Howard Bentham / Charles Nove Sits In (BBC Radio Oxford, 10/03/17 – 1 hr 37 mins in)
First ever live music census to be carried out across UK (The Irish News, 09/03/17)
Adam Behr on Gilly Hope’s show (BBC Radio Newcastle, 09/03/17 – 32 mins in)
Adam Behr on Lisa Shaw’s show (BBC Radio Newcastle, 09/03/17 – 1 hr 10 mins in)
Working to prevent the death of live music venues (Channel Four News, 09/03/17)
When did you last hear live music? Stand up and be counted (The Guardian, 08/03/17)
Oxford band urges others to join the UK’s first live music census (Oxford Mail, 08/03/17)
The UK’s rich musical heritage is threatened by a live music culture under pressure (The Conversation, 08/03/17)
UK Music warns Budget tax rise could put live sector at risk (Music Week, 07/03/17)
UK census to paint picture of live music scene (Arts Professional, 07/03/17)
Threat to live music from increase in rateable values (The Times, 06/03/17)
Business chiefs tell chancellor: reform business rates now to avert high street crisis (The Guardian, 06/03/17)
Business rates rise is threat to music venues, warns The Garage nightclub owner Donald MacLeod (The Herald, 06/03/17)
Martin Cloonan on NewsDrive (Radio Scotland, 06/03/17 – 1’58 in)
Government’s business rate plans could have big impact on grassroots venues (CMU, 06/03/17)
Business rates rise is threat to music venues, warns The Garage nightclub owner Donald MacLeod (The Herald, 06/03/17)
Higher business rates ‘could threaten live music venues’ (Daily Express, 06/03/17)
Some Scottish music venues could close due to tax hikes (The National, 06/03/17
Higher business rates ‘could threaten live music venues’ (Yorkshire Post, 06/03/17)
Higher business rates ‘could threaten live music venues’ (AOL UK, 06/03/2017)
BBC Radio Scotland (BBC Radio Scotland, 06/03/2017 17:58:29)
Grassroots Clubs At Risk (Morning Star Online, 06/03/2017)
Music venues ‘threatened by tax hikes’ (The Skinny, 06/03/2017)
UK Live Music Census Launches Thursday 9 March (Musicians’ Union, 01/03/17)
First census of the UK’s live music scene planned (BBC, 11/01/17)
First UK live music census announced (Classical Music, 11/01/17)
World’s first ever live music census to cover Oxford (Oxford Mail, 11/01/17)
University of Edinburgh to conduct UK’s first ever live music census (Music Week, 11/01/17)
National live music census announced (Stand Out magazine, 11/01/17)
Good Morning Scotland (BBC Radio Scotland, 12/01/17 – 2 hours 41 minutes in)
UK live music census announced (CMU, 12/01/17)
UK-wide Live Music Census launched (IQ magazine, 12/01/17)
Have your say in world’s first national live music census (M Magazine, 12/01/17)
Arts News: Live music census, migrant poetry project, Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival (Glasgow Herald, 16/01/17)
Emma Webster on the Nick Piersey show (BBC Radio Oxford, 19/01/17 – 1 hour 7 mins in)
Twenty four hours of musical life in Newcastle to be put in the spotlight (Evening Chronicle, Newcastle, 21/01/17)