Our Essential Reading series is back as we bring you some of the most pressing issues - and interesting developments - affecting music and youth services.
There’s listening as well as reading this time as Room to Rant gets featured on Radio One, and we take a look into how the pandemic has affected the music industry once again.
AudioActive’s Facebook page can be relied on for regular reading material, with our very own Tom Hines always having his finger on the pulse of music journalism - and on the share button, too.
5,000 people attend COVID-19 experiment gig in Barcelona
As reported by NME and plenty other sources, an event that organisers called ‘Europe’s biggest concert since the pandemic began’ went ahead recently in Barcelona.
With 5000 people present, each of whom received a rapid Covid-19 test with their ticket upon arrival, it could be an indicator as to how the music industry gets live music up and running again.
‘UK nightclubs need financial help – and respect for their cultural importance.’
Finn McCory of The Guardian has called for the government to offer more support for the country’s nightlife industry.
Furthermore, the article explains how this was an issue even before Covid-19, as McCory writes: ‘London alone lost more than 50% of its clubs between 2010 and 2016. By 2018, it seemed as if it reached a tipping point – 21% of UK clubs closed their doors for good in that year alone.’
87 per cent of musicians say their mental health has deteriorated during lockdown…
Help Musicians have recently published some essential reading in the form of their report on the effect that the pandemic has had on artists, themselves.
Over 50% of those surveyed are no longer making money from music and as the headline reads, a large majority of them say it has affected their mental health.
Room to Rant on Radio One
Sticking on mental health and music, we were grateful for the chance to share our work with Room to Rant as part of Radio One’s Red Nose Day coverage.
The project that uses rap and spoken word to tackle young men’s mental health issues is funded by Comic Relief, and Scott Mills played tracks from young people who attend while bigging up the project. Listen from 38 minutes for music from Cross 4 Eyes and Rainy Days.
We’re welcoming sign-ups to Room to Rant via our website.
Barriers for young people in creative industries: ‘I had to fork out a bunch of money for work experience’
The i recently published an important real-life report on the barriers facing young people who want to work in the creative industry.
Featuring Brighton radio station Platform B and their new The Rising breakfast show venture, the article gets perspectives from producer Eva Lunny and host Elsa Monteith about their careers so far.
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