London Venue Day, new solutions announced for small venues

The problem of small venues at risk of closure, in London, was also addressed during Venues Day 2016. The Music Venue Trust announced several new initiatives to protect them, including a project to refurbish a hundred of them over the next five years.

A new national platform, as reported by IQ-mag.net, was also created to sell tickets, Grassrootsvenues.tickets, which will be helpful, according to MVT’s Mark Davyd, to sell tickets more effectively, and who stated that it will aid to make sure that artists and authors who perform at these locations are actually paid.

With the aid program Sound + Vision, which will be used to refurbish sound and light systems in a hundred venues, the annual busget is also expected to go down from 2.2 million pounds to just 970,000.

Legal problems are also considered in the new plan: the local Emergency Response scheme will help in matters concerning licenses, among others.