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# Indie music venues are struggling, but the UK has a solution
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/indie-music-venues-are-struggling/
- Published: 2025-05-23T15:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-24T14:02:52.000Z
- Description: With more stories daily about the growing hurdles to touring, we look at how indie music venues are struggling.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, Live & Ticketing, The Live Stage, Touring, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

With more stories daily about the [growing hurdles to touring](https://www.hypebot.com/why-more-musicians-are-rethinking-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](https://www.hypebot.com/us-independent-music-venues-are-in-crisis-and-the-uk-has-a-solution/).”

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### 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](https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-gen-z-drag-down-beer-sales-2018-2?r=US&IR=T&ref=hypebot.com) than their predecessors.

[***CONTINUE READING***](https://www.hypebot.com/us-independent-music-venues-are-in-crisis-and-the-uk-has-a-solution/)

#### **ALSO: [Why More Musicians Are Rethinking Touring](https://www.hypebot.com/why-more-musicians-are-rethinking-touring/)**