The winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, the MAC in Belfast and does the UK need more music arenas?
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The Cost of Grassroots Music Venues Is Huge
The government found £5 million for grassroots music venues. The development of new artists is costing grassroots venues £79 million a year. We invest £212 million a year in putting on new music and we only make £139 million back from the sale of tickets. You should be able to walk down the road and see a new original band virtually everywhere in this country, every town and city should have some sort of small space that inspires young people to want to make this sound. As Tom has said, it's not just about musicians, it's about our lighting engineers, our sound engineers. It's the whole ecosystem, it starts up in these small venues and we are losing it and we need
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