Music Venue Trust has announced that 20 venues, including one in Scotland, remain in imminent danger of permanent closure with 6 newly highlighted venues added to the #saveourvenues Red List…(Read More)
UK Music’s CEO has responded to Boris Johnson’s proposed roadmap out of Covid-19 restrictions – and the summer reopening of clubs…(Read More)
After almost a year without live music, TENEMENT TV are delighted to launch a brand-new music project connecting Scottish musicians currently locked down across the country. TTV COLLECTIVE will give artists in Scotland a platform to collaborate and create, working together – safely and in line with current guidelines – to produce brand new recorded…(Read More)
Record labels association the BPI has today won two significant new piracy cases, brought by major and independent record companies, confirming for the first time that cyberlockers and stream rippers – and those who use them – break the law…(Read More)
The Scottish Government’s £9million Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers, delivered by Creative Scotland and Screen Scotland, will re-open for applications at 2pm, Tuesday 2 March 2021…(Read More)
SXSW (aka South by Southwest), the annual music, film, and interactive conference/festival in Austin, Texas, have announced the second round of artists to perform for the festival, which will be held via livestream this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic…(Read More)
At the start of the lockdown, the Musicians’ Union and Ivors Academy launched the Keep Music Alive campaign, calling streaming royalties “woefully insufficient” and urging the Government to undertake a review…(Read More)
The Musicians’ Union (MU) and The Ivors Academy have released joint research revealing how the majority of shielding musicians, songwriters and composers who we surveyed do not feel they can return to work until they are vaccinated…(Read More)
Scottish retail, hospitality, leisure and aviation businesses will not pay non-domestic rates throughout the next financial year, under plans announced by Finance Secretary Kate Forbes…(Read More)
The Minister for Digital and Culture Caroline Dinenage has committed to working with music organisations to find workable solutions to these critical issues including mobility post-Brexit…(Read More)
The Scottish Government is demanding action from Westminster to break a visa deadlock which is said to be putting performers and artists at risk of being cut off from the rest of Europe…(Read More)
DCMS Minister Caroline Dinenage MP has confirmed that musicians travelling into and around the EU with portable musical instruments are not required to obtain a Carnet…(Read More)
#WeMakeEvents has announced a new campaign in a bid to urge the UK Government to provide relief for the struggling live events sector during the coronavirus pandemic…(Read More)
Campaigning organisation Parents & Carers in Performing Arts (PiPA) have published a new report on the impact of Covid-19…(Read More)
The Isle of Gigha, off the west coast of Kintyre, wants to commission a new song that can also be learned by non-Gaelic speakers who currently live there…(Read More)
The Scottish Government has today (Thursday 11 February 2021) announced a further £17.5 million of emergency coronavirus (COVID-19) funding to support creative freelancers and the events sector. Of the £17.5 million announced, £8.5 million will go towards the events sector – distributed through the Pivotal Event Businesses Fund and the Events Industry…(Read More)