On 16 January in the House of Commons, Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, said: “In Ipswich, an entire ecosystem is being created that equips young people with those skills and that love of music at school, and goes all the way through enabling them to perform at smaller and larger live music venues, and to get the skills that they need to work in the music industry.
“We would like to replicate that model around the country.”
The number of small music venues in the UK declined by 13% in 2023 – accounting for as many as 30,000 fewer shows – according to the Music Venue Trust (MVT), which said the sector had taken a “battering”.
MVT has been campaigning for £1 to be added to tickets for arena and stadium shows to subsidise the pubs and clubs where many headline acts start out.
In May a cross-party report, external, from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, , externalsuggested a cut in VAT to help grass roots venues
Mr Wright added: “There are downsides to Ipswich, there are downsides to every town, but what we’ve achieved here, and Tune Up is a small piece of that puzzle, it’s truly impressive.”
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