“We’d have lost hundreds of music venues by now if it weren’t for the British public,” say MVT after government bailout
nme.comcoronavirus crisis – before the government stepped in with a £1.57billion arts bailout.Last night, the UK government revealed plans for an unprecedented cash injection to help the arts, culture and heritage industries “weather the impact of coronavirus” – providing music venues, independent cinemas, museums, galleries, theatres and heritage sites with emergency grants and loans.After COVID-19 restrictions first forced venues to close, the MVT launched the Save Our Venues campaign with a crowdfunding bid to prevent 556 independent UK venues from being lost forever.
It raised over £1.5million and saved 140 venues from immediate closure.Now with venues’ future seeming somewhat brighter thanks to the new funds, MVT CEO Mark Davyd told NME that.
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