Redwurzel
Well-known member
It is concerning small local venues are closing. I used to enjoy a pint and live music in a pub myself and with pubs going so is the live music to some extent. I guess it places the same size as the Westgarth in Middlesbrough that are going.20% of the UK’s small music venues have closed in the last 15 years, with 54 closing since 2014 and 26 venues closing in the last two years. This doesn’t take account the amount of pub type gigs that have gone
Sure there’s lots of really good musicians and bands around. But there are fewer and fewer places to play.
And you only get better by doing it.
20% of UK’s small venues closed over 15 years, says study - Access All Areas
Insure4Music has found that 20% of small music venues in the UK have closed in the last 15 years One small music venue is closing every month in the UK on average over the last two years. That’s according to an interactive map from Insure4Music, which illustrates the UK’s open and closed small...accessaa.co.uk
I saw the trend in the 1990s where mid size venues were not putting on music, they complained there were not the bands that toured say 30 to 40 venues all over the UK. That the equipment demands were bigger for known bands. That the growth was the giant arenas, say for me, NEC in Birmingham, so the large towns were ignored for known names.
There seems to have been a growth in summer festivals which must have helped some bands.
Nowadays I tend to go to Folk stuff and there are quite a lot of festivals and events in theatres. If anything there seems more going on in the folk world. Look at all the folk groups with Teesside connections there appears more Teesside folk singers than steel workers.
