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In a statement about the survey, Michael Kill, CEO of the Night Time Industries Association said: \u201cElectronic music remains one of the UK\u2019s most powerful cultural and economic assets, but the domestic ecosystem that sustains it is now in crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are seeing free parties rise, mid-tier venues disappear and audiences pushed out of licensed spaces – not because demand is falling, but because the sector is being squeezed by sustained economic pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cAt the same time… this report shows extraordinary resilience, but resilience is not a policy. Without urgent reform – from VAT alignment and business rates relief to meaningful planning protections – we risk dismantling the very foundations that made the UK a global leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.musicradar.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you live in the UK, you will have doubtless heard much about the death of the British club scene and dire warnings about the future of the night-time economy. However, a new report into UK electronic music has revealed a much more nuanced picture. The Fourth Electronic Music Report has been produced by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/We-are-seeing-free-parties-rise-mid-tier-venues-disappear\u2026-extraordinary.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284929,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284927\/revisions\/2284929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}