Please support this on Go Fund Me: Grassroots Music Making needs support. Are you in a position to help? - Iron Man Records buff.ly/E3MZQvH #music #musicians #Birmingham #art #artist

Grassroots university touring initiative - Access All Areas buff.ly/8cVKzvM #music #musicians #grassroots

Land Of Kali, by Essential Logic. Land of Kali is the first new Essential Logic studio album in 43 years, and features the new single ‘Prayer for Peace’, a re-imagining of the X-Ray Spex track from the tragically overlooked album, Conscious Consumer (1995) buff.ly/Z2BauOw#music #musicians

That’s a huge number, and thanks to all the artists, their teams, and everyone behind the scenes pushing the initiative to happen. That’s 27.6% of big gig tickets on sale for next year, meaning there’s still 2.9million tickets not yet contributing to the levy in 2026 though.

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Get a job? Artists already have a job. You’re just not willing to pay for their work. You want their work for free. But you’ll pay £4 for a cup of coffee or £4.50 for a Sandwich

FROM THE GRASSROOTS UP. Our new podcast series, The Last Safe Space, has just dropped its latest episode at youtu.be/-Pf188mAJvk. This is unprecedented, deep dive access to behind the scenes of MVT - what we're focused on, what the live music sector is doing, and how we're all working together.

Tomorrow (Saturday), come and join the month long festivities at The George Tavern. MVT CEO, Mark Davyd, is in conversation with Pauline, Georgia, and Scarlett Woolfe. 🎟️  Entry is free via: link.dice.fm/Z973e622e282...

selling three-quarters of the records we used to sell, twice the amount of promo, and finding it doubly hard to sell the same number of tickets for a gig – those are the things which turn our tiny margin of sustainability into catastrophic financial doom. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Music Matter Retail Joins GAK and PMT in Sudden Closures. GAK, a Brighton institution for 30 years, shut its doors in April 2025, citing unsustainable overheads and declining footfall. PMT followed in June, with staff laid off nationwide. buff.ly/vTGVeqW #music #musicians #brexit

Davina and The Vagabonds | Studio 3 LIVE. Minneapolis' own Davina and The Vagabonds music pulls inspiration from early jazz and blues as well as classic rock and modern pop. Their Studio 3 LIVE performance brings the audience to their feet. buff.ly/JCkT9Vk #music #musicians #blues #jazz #rock

Just a cosy little human interest feature chatting to people who went to support a far right racist criminal thug What on earth is the BBC up to?

💔😩Donations are painfully slow. Tonight 17 blasts shook us like earthquakes, my children screamed in terror. Mona suffers after surgery with no painkillers — rare and costly. Majd cannot walk.Food, water, medicine, and transport drain everything. 🙏 Please, don’t leave us alone🖤 gofund.me/2f942387

Essential Logic, Helen McCookerybook, Exotic Pets (Birmingham), DJ Set - Estella Adeyeri (Big Joanie) Tuesday, September 23, doors 7.30pm ADV £20.60 at The Lexington London. Live Music, DJs, Beer and Bourbon buff.ly/lz7CBzy #music #musicians #Birmingham

A $$92,000 settlement agreement in North Carolina ends a four-year legal battle over a cattle farm’s damage to mountain streams.

As losses mount, Kremlin sends three MiG-31 fighters into Estonian airspace in a bid to intimidate NATO. Ukraine’s counter-offensive has already liberated 160 square kilometers in Donetsk, and Putin’s war is devouring the Russian economy from within. youtu.be/S6tgAx164iI?...

The Official Record Of Opposition To The Death Penalty. Please Add your name - it takes 30 seconds >> secure.reprieve.org/page/69141/p...

Sometimes you have to do something you don't understand. Join Us. Support Iron Man Records by becoming a Patron and help to make a difference. buff.ly/9eRvoyf #music #musicians #grassroots #Patreon

Earlier this year, the Music Fans' Voice survey proved that music fans are not only invested in grassroots, they’re ready to speak up for it. Thousands of you filled it out, and the results were undeniable.

Grassroots live music has always been built on fairness - and today, we’re making that absolutely crystal clear. Music Venue Trust and the Association of Independent Promoters have set a united benchmark. 📸 by Georgia Penny

“I’m proud that our members have taken a united stand against these practices and are setting a clear standard of fairness for the wider industry to follow” - Beverley Whitrick, MVT COO.

“The grassroots sector works because of the partnerships between venues, promoters, and artists. Practices like Pay-to-Play and merch commission undermine that partnership and exploit the very talent we are all here to support.”

These principles have long been the reality across grassroots venues and independent promoters. Now they’re being set out as the standard which the whole live music industry should follow. ⚠️ No Pay-to-Play. ⚠️ No merch cuts. ⚠️ Fairness at the core of every show.

Celebrities including Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Steve Coogan, Billie Eilish, Finneas and Peter Gabriel are holding a Benefit tonight at 7pm for Palestine at OVO Wembly Arena. Free Palestine, end the Genocide.

I would like to extend an invitation for you to become an Iron Man Records Patron. Your support can make a meaningful difference. Support Iron Man Records and unlock exclusive rewards, become a Patron and help make a difference. buff.ly/zk4P4BT #music #musicians #grassroots

Crowdfund: Grassroots music making is the source of our music culture and sense of place. It’s under threat from rising costs, venue closures, loss of accessible spaces, reduced income streams, and changing audience habits gofund.me/b40af30f9 #music #grassrootsmusic

“Birmingham city feels like the city that’s turned its back on its own culture and has done for a long time.” A Freedom of Information request revealed that around 77 out of 114 noise complaints had been made by one person. buff.ly/h49qaO1 #music #musicians #Birmingham

Birmingham ‘turning its back on culture’ with busking ‘ban’ - Arts Professional. Unions and musicians have criticised Birmingham City Council for becoming the only local authority in the UK to forbid busking in its city centre. buff.ly/h49qaO1 #music #musicians #art #Birmingham #Culture #busking

David Garside, a musician, recalls the past. “The Old Railway in Digbeth was an old-fashioned pub with live music pretty much every night. ‘The live music bedrock has vanished’: gig venue closures from Oxford to Birmingham buff.ly/bFvJmgf #music #musicians #Birmingham #Brexit #carryontouring

‘The live music bedrock has vanished’: gig venue closures from Oxford to Birmingham. In UK cities full of musicians, the fast-shrinking nightlife scene is leaving artists with nowhere to play. buff.ly/bFvJmgf #music #Brexit #musicians #carryontouring

Brexit is silencing British musicians. The bureaucratic demands put on artists touring the continent are so great that many acts are simply giving up. And the government is doing nothing about it buff.ly/cJu2djM #Brexit #music #musicians #carryontouring

"There was a time when Republicans and Democrats worked together to get to the truth.. Polarisation is destructive" -RIP Robert Redford

2025: Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper greets Donald Trump 2017: Yvette Cooper, "We're marching because we want no girl to ever to lower her sights, be limited in her life because she sees her value of her life through Donald Trump's eyes"

President Trump claims that the European Union is paying $950 billion in tariffs - Except the EU are not

President Trump, "We seek the King tomorrow, he has been a friend of mine for a long time. And everybody respects him"

Lewis Goodall, "Whether it is the British with Starmer as result of the Mandelson" "Whether it's the British royal family and the connection with Prince Andrew" "Or the American president" "They all have a serious connection to Epstein who was perhaps the most prolific pedophile of our age"

Protestors project Trump with Epstein, and Prince Andrew with Epstein, on Windsor castle

BBC News, "Giant images were displayed on the walls outside Windsor castle" "Of President Trump and the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein" "Thames Valley police telling us four people were arrested in connection with that incident"

Why Russia is targeting NATO members with drones. The impact on European security and global markets. How sanctions, battlefield losses, and strikes on refineries are crippling Russia’s economy. youtu.be/aHGV4vvBRho?...

How Brexit brought Britain to its knees, in terms of xenophobia and racism. Shocking direct accounts of attacks on women and children by mindless thugs enabled by full fat fascist flagshagging. brexitrage.com/brexit-begat...

Culture should have no borders, reflecting a society enriched by its internationalism. Populist isolationism of Brexit threatens freedoms, enlightenment, and social cohesion in a nation becoming riven by ever radicalised extremes. www.thecanary.co/trending/202... #Brexit #music #musicians

Crowdfund: Grassroots music making is the source of our music culture and sense of place. It’s under threat from rising costs, venue closures, loss of accessible spaces, reduced income streams, and changing audience habits gofund.me/b40af30f9 #music #grassrootsmusic

This should be condemned across the political spectrum This is being ignored and yet it echoes Musk’s calls for violence

Owner of Twitter calls for violence and what sounded like an insurrection UK government: Let’s put some more money into ads on “X”

Fascism is coming for the democracies of the world at an accelerating pace.

Yesterday, 🇿🇦 immigrant in 🇺🇸 and former Trump advisor Elon Musk called for violence on the streets of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 He was also was fooled by an AI photo that’s clearly in Paris On Weds, join @zoejardiniere.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social & more at the StopTrump rally in London

Ahead of Trump’s visit to the UK, do we know if his good friend Elon Musk ever paid the King’s estate the huge debt he owed? Can only find reporting on the legal action rather than the outcome www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6438...

"Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer." I think this might be incitement to violence rather than Free Speech.

Isn’t this a criminal offence? I mean, if grannies holding a sign are arrested…