Over 28,500 shows booked for grassroots music venues this summer
nme.comCOVID pilot test events for clubbing and a small festival set-up featuring Blossoms, The Lathums and ZuZu.With the current roadmap showing May 17 as the penultimate stage easing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the UK before a planned return to full capacity social activity on June 21, the Music Venue Trust surveyed all of its English members to discover what a summer of live music might look like in grassroots independent gig spaces.Their survey found that that over 2,534 socially-distanced shows are already on sale in 266 venues from May 17 to June 21 (including a tour from Fat White Family), with more than 4,000 shows across over 400 venues predicted to take place during the month.Gigs will then hopefully increase throughout the summer,.
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