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25/08/2004
UK's live music scene is 'flourishing'
Live music is flourishing in the UK with an estimated 1.7 million live gigs staged in the past year alone, according to a new survey out today.
The major survey for the Live Music Forum shows that almost half of all venues staged a gig in the last year. A fifth of venues stage live acts at least twice a month.
Of the 1,600 venues questioned, 55% host live music because customers demand it.
However, Culture Minister Richard Caborn said the survey also revealed that many venues have not thought about putting on live music, despite incoming licensing laws.
"The new Licensing laws will create more opportunities for budding musicians, but the survey shows that there are many potential venues who have not thought about putting on live bands," he said.
"We need to encourage them to do so and show them that the licensing changes will make staging live music easier so that they are ready to embrace the new law when it comes in next year."
Chair of the Live Music Forum, 80s chart topper Feargal Sharkey, said: "A third of the people we spoke to who do not currently put on live music said they probably would in the future.
"I want them, and anyone with the space to put on a band or a live act, to think carefully and remember the benefits in profits, to customers and to the next generation of performers."
The Forum brings together the music industry, Arts Council, local authorities, small venue owners and Government to look at the current and future live music scene.
The new legislation comes into force in late 2005
(gmcg)
The major survey for the Live Music Forum shows that almost half of all venues staged a gig in the last year. A fifth of venues stage live acts at least twice a month.
Of the 1,600 venues questioned, 55% host live music because customers demand it.
However, Culture Minister Richard Caborn said the survey also revealed that many venues have not thought about putting on live music, despite incoming licensing laws.
"The new Licensing laws will create more opportunities for budding musicians, but the survey shows that there are many potential venues who have not thought about putting on live bands," he said.
"We need to encourage them to do so and show them that the licensing changes will make staging live music easier so that they are ready to embrace the new law when it comes in next year."
Chair of the Live Music Forum, 80s chart topper Feargal Sharkey, said: "A third of the people we spoke to who do not currently put on live music said they probably would in the future.
"I want them, and anyone with the space to put on a band or a live act, to think carefully and remember the benefits in profits, to customers and to the next generation of performers."
The Forum brings together the music industry, Arts Council, local authorities, small venue owners and Government to look at the current and future live music scene.
The new legislation comes into force in late 2005
(gmcg)
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