Indie music venues are struggling, but the UK has a solution
With more stories daily about the growing hurdles to touring, we look at how indie music venues are struggling.
We expect to learn the results of NIVA’s landmark independent venue survey in June.
But until then Hypebot’s Flashback Friday revisits “Indie music venues are struggling, but the UK has a solution.”
How did live music venues become so unprofitable?
Running a venue has never been easy, but it became particularly difficult post-pandemic. Rents rose, the cost of goods and services skyrocketed, and a competitive job market with rising minimum wages pushed labor costs higher. Touring musicians are also facing many of these same economic pressures.
Some would-be concert-goers also learned how to be happy staying home during the pandemic, and once reliable income from bar sales is under threat, with younger generations drinking less than their predecessors.
