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Save Luna: London venue fights to survive in face of crippling costs and founder’s tragic passing
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Save Luna: London venue fights to survive in face of crippling costs and founder’s tragic passing

‘You can have a life-changing experience for the price of pizza’: Why Sneaky Pete’s is vital to Scottish music
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‘You can have a life-changing experience for the price of pizza’: Why Sneaky Pete’s is vital to Scottish music

2023 was brutal for UK music venues with at least one closing per week. We must fight to save them
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2023 was brutal for UK music venues with at least one closing per week. We must fight to save them

The unusual story of how one Lancashire venue rose like a phoenix: ‘It’s a place for everybody’
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The unusual story of how one Lancashire venue rose like a phoenix: ‘It’s a place for everybody’

How tiny music venue The Pit at Newstead revived a former mining community: ‘It’s a lifeline’
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How tiny music venue The Pit at Newstead revived a former mining community: ‘It’s a lifeline’

Iconic venue where Oasis and Pulp cut their teeth shuts after 45 years: ‘We won’t be the only ones’
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Iconic venue where Oasis and Pulp cut their teeth shuts after 45 years: ‘We won’t be the only ones’

Urgent campaign to save London music venue Matchstick Piehouse after landlord sends in bailiffs
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Urgent campaign to save London music venue Matchstick Piehouse after landlord sends in bailiffs

Queens of the Stone Age review: Saving lives with joyous mayhem
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Queens of the Stone Age review: Saving lives with joyous mayhem

How Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival is nurturing tomorrow’s headliners
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How Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival is nurturing tomorrow’s headliners

Atherton ‘had everything taken away’. The Snug brought back music and community
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Atherton ‘had everything taken away’. The Snug brought back music and community

Inside the grassroots music venue where Oasis, Pulp and Ed Sheeran cut their teeth
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Inside the grassroots music venue where Oasis, Pulp and Ed Sheeran cut their teeth

This Scottish music venue changed a disabled teen’s life – but may run out of money in months
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This Scottish music venue changed a disabled teen’s life – but may run out of money in months

Steve Lamacq: ‘This music venue changed my life… it’s now a carpark’
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Steve Lamacq: ‘This music venue changed my life… it’s now a carpark’

How iconic London music venue The Windmill made Brixton a mecca for the best new bands
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How iconic London music venue The Windmill made Brixton a mecca for the best new bands

How this plucky music venue is bringing a faded seaside town back from the dead
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How this plucky music venue is bringing a faded seaside town back from the dead

Hot Box, Chelmsford: Possibly the only UK venue to puts on funk nights and a chess club
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Hot Box, Chelmsford: Possibly the only UK venue to puts on funk nights and a chess club

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Enter Shikari: Doing their bit to keep live music venues open
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Enter Shikari: Doing their bit to keep live music venues open

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Soweto Kinch, Say She She: Jazz to see us through dark days
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Ryuichi Sakamoto, Soweto Kinch, Say She She: Jazz to see us through dark days

The energy bills crisis is threatening live music venues. They need support now
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The energy bills crisis is threatening live music venues. They need support now

It’s time we reclaimed the power of music, in all its forms
Phil Ryan

It’s time we reclaimed the power of music, in all its forms