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Jun 2020
29m 37s

Gigs might fly: LIVE MUSIC’s last chance...

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Hundreds of thousands of people should be heading to Glastonbury right now. Instead the live music industry is hanging on by its fingernails, hundreds of venues are threatened with closure, and the Government hasn’t included music in its ‘Cultural Renewal Taskforce’. Music agent JAMES WRIGHT of United Talent Agency talks to Andrew Harrison about what this multi-billion pound industry needs to survive. 


  • “Music is this country’s cultural background. And it’s being taken away from people.”
  • “Our business just doesn’t work with ANY social distancing in place.”


Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.


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