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From the Musicians’ Union Archive: Archer Street – John Williamson
This is the first in an occasional series of posts originating from ‘The Musicians’ Union: A Social History’ – an AHRC and ESRC funded research project based in the School of Culture and Creative Arts...
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Trying to Stop George From Having a Night Out – Martin Cloonan
This is the next in an occasional series of posts originating from ‘The Musicians’ Union: A Social History’ – an AHRC and ESRC funded research project based in the School of Culture and Creative Arts...
View ArticleAlien invasions: the British Musicians’ Union and foreign musicians – Martin...
Author(s): Martin Cloonan and Matt Brennan Publisher: Popular Music, Volume 32, Issue 02, pp 277-295 Date: May 2013 This article examines the policies of the British Musicians’ Union towards the...
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120 years ago today – John Williamson
This is the next in an occasional series of posts originating from ‘The Musicians’ Union: A Social History’ – an AHRC and ESRC funded research project based in the School of Culture and Creative Arts...
View ArticleThe Rocktober Report: The Live Music Act, One Year On – UK Music / Musicians’...
Author(s): UK Music / Musicians’ Union Publisher: UK Music / Musicians’ Union Date: 2013 UK Music surveyed 1,000 small venues last year and found that 78% of them did not know about the new Live Music...
View ArticleWanted: nine million affluent gig-goers – Andy Inglis
This week’s guest blog post is by Andy Inglis, co-founder of London’s now defunct Luminaire Club, and owner/manager of music industry project management company, 5000. In it, he argues against the idea...
View ArticleThe Musicians’ Union encourages Fair Play from venues – Kelly Wood
In this week’s blog post Kelly Wood, Live Music Official at the Musicians’ Union, outlines the background to the Fair Play Guide, along with it’s reception, and looks to the future at plans to expand...
View ArticleNEW REPORT LAUNCHED: The Cultural Value of Live Music from the Pub to the...
Today’s post marks the release of a new report by Live Music Exchange team members Adam Behr, Matt Brennan and Martin Cloonan, working from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Cultural Value...
View ArticleTen Things Learned at Venues Day 2014 – Emma Webster
Venues Days on 9th December 2014 was the first of its kind in the UK, gathering together around 120 independent music venue representatives from England, Scotland, and Wales, and around 300 delegates...
View ArticleThrowing A Lifeline To Grass Roots Music Venues – Horace Trubridge
Throwing A Lifeline To Grass Roots Music Venues – Horace Trubridge Horace Trubridge, Assistant General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union reflects on his experience of music venues and the increasingly...
View ArticleThe Musicians’ Union Fair Play Venues Scheme – Sheena Macdonald
This week’s blog post explains the rationale behind the Musicians’ Union Fair Play Venues scheme. Sheena Macdonald – Musicians’ Union Regional Organiser for Scotland and Northern Ireland – discusses...
View ArticleThe found musicians: The regeneration of the union of musicians in Galicia? –...
In today’s blog post Zósimo López, of the University of Santiago de Compostela, discusses the historical and currrent formulation of musicians’ organisations in Galicia, Spain, along with the impact of...
View ArticleAlien invasions: the British Musicians’ Union and foreign musicians – Martin...
Author(s): Martin Cloonan and Matt Brennan Organisation / Affiliation: Popular Music 32(2) Date: May 2013 Abstract: This article examines the policies of the British Musicians’ Union towards the...
View ArticleIntroducing the UK Live Music Census – Matt Brennan, Adam Behr, Martin...
In this week’s blog post, Matt Brennan introduces a new research project which launched in September: a UK-wide live music census funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. By Matt Brennan and...
View ArticleUK Live Music Census 2017 – update
As we announced back in November, the Live Music Exchange team are currently working on an exciting new project, the UK Live Music Census, the first exercise of its kind anywhere in the world to...
View ArticleGetting the Needle – Martin Cloonan
This week’s blog post is by Live Music Exchange’s own Martin Cloonan, who, with John Williamson, has just completed an important piece of work on the social history of the Musicians’ Union (for more on...
View ArticleUK Live Music Census begins amidst concern over the threat to gigs from...
The UK Live Music Census – a Live Music Exchange project – began at noon yesterday, on Thursday 9th March. The first strand to the data collection exercise – snapshot censuses in Glasgow, Newcastle,...
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The UK’s live music culture under pressure – Adam Behr
Today we feature a re-post of Live Music Exchange’s Adam Behr’s piece for The Conversation discussing the pressures on live music, and the context for the UK Live Music Census dwphotos /...
View ArticleValuing live music: UK Live Music Census report 2017 – Emma Webster, Matt...
Author(s): Emma Webster, Matt Brennan, Adam Behr and Martin Cloonan with Jake Ansell Organisation: University of Edinburgh / Live Music Exchange Date: 2018 The UK’s first ever national live music...
View ArticleWhat Brexit Means for Touring – Jolene Zhu Zhou
With the UK now outside of the EU, and the ramifications of that decision making themselves felt, live music practitioners and their representative bodies are impressing upon the government the need...
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