Complaints about sound emission are an important factor of a venue closing. With urban densification and gentrification, more and more people move closer to live music places. Besides increasing rents, these phenomenons may also lead to conflicts between cultural live music places and their neighbours. These conflicts may lead...
Are small music venues being gentrified? This question is central to Trine Heide’s essay, MA student at the University of Copenhagen. She tackles the subject of Urban Theory and examines the links between gentrification and small music venues in the UK and in Denmark. What is gentrification? Gentrification is...
For the last Live Style Europe radio show of the season, we would like to look back on the second year of the Live Style Europe project and project ourselves in the future by presenting our upcoming activities. In 2017, the European Commission granted Live DMA with the European...
Our member in the United Kingdom, Music Venue Trust has published two guides on how to open and run a Grassroots Venue. Grassroots venues share the same values and mission. Live music is their main purpose, and they often take a financial risk when presenting new talents. From local...
This paper studies the autonomy of music bookers in regard of the structural independence of live music clubs and venues through the examples of Paris and Berlin. It was published in June 2019 in Symbolic Goods, a Social Science Journal on Arts, Culture and Ideas. It was written by...
Hilma Kekkonen, Svensk Live - (Sweden )
Boris Colin, FEDELIMA - (France )
Ingrid Stroom, Live Music Estonia - (Estonia )
Marc Steens, Clubcircuit - (Belgium: Flanders )
Elda Gomez, ACCES - (Spain )
David Dehard, Court-Circuit - (Belgium: Wallonia & Brussels )
Ieva Irbina, LPNVA - (Latvia )
Federico Rasetti, KeepOn Live - (Italy )