Music Venue

Property round-up

£2.5m Fourpure revamp, 13 grassroots venues safe from ‘immediate threat’, community group buys local

10-Feb-2021 By Stuart Stone

This week’s property round-up includes the completion of a seven-figure refurb at Fourpure’s brewery and 13 grassroots venues being removed from the Music Venue Trust’s ‘red list’.

Eviction threat for award-winning music venue

02-Mar-2018 By Stuart Stone

The Roadhouse, one of the oldest live music venues in Covent Garden, London, faces eviction if planning permission is given to developers looking to revamp the site.

Agent-of-change principle could hit the right note

28-Feb-2018 By Poppleston Allen

There have been numerous press reports over the years regarding the closure of live music venues and the impact upon not only local communities, but also the British music industry itself.

Famous music venue closes with immediate effect

12-Feb-2018 By Stuart Stone

The Bristol Bierkeller closed its doors for the last time on Thursday 8 February after developers of the All Saints Street site didn’t include the popular music venue in its regeneration plans.

Government backs 'agent of change' rollout

23-Jan-2018 By Stuart Stone

The pub industry has reacted positively to the news that an agent-of-change principle, protecting the UK’s live music venues from property developers, has received Government backing and will be written into planning law.

House of Song launches its second late-night live-music venue

16-Jan-2018 By Stuart Stone

The group behind the Piano Works in Farringdon, London, is opening its second site, Studio 88, in Leicester Square this month.

MA500: top tips on holding live music events

09-Jun-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Music maestro Ethan Allen gave delegates at last month (May)'s MA500 meeting in Liverpool, his top tips on how best to use live music in their venues:

George Tavern

Courts protect famous music pub in landmark victory

05-Jul-2016 By Oli Gross

A famous live music pub has won a legal battle against the development of nearby block of flats, in a decision which has been hailed as a landmark victory for grassroots music venues.

PMA campaign

Make Some Noise: Music venues protected against nearby developments

15-Mar-2016 By Oli Gross

Music venues have been given much-needed protection against potential nearby developments thanks to new Government legislation.

Twisted Burger boosts the Yard’s food sales by 50%, but could rise to 300%

29-Feb-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Food sales at Yorkshire pub the Yard, Ilkley, have rocketed by more than 50% since the franchise Twisted Burger launched there in early February, the Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA) has learnt.

Flowers laid outside former south east London pub in memory of David Bowie

11-Jan-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Floral tributes have been placed outside the former Three Tuns pub in Beckenham, South East London today following the death of music legend David Bowie.

Make Some Noise

Legal advice: Hope for pubs in noise debate

22-Oct-2015 By Poppleston Allen

Most people reading this article will at some time have bought a house and would not have done so without having a good look around the area.

Make Some Noise

Boris Johnson gets behind campaign to save music venues

22-Oct-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has thrown his weight behind the ‘agent of change’ principle in an attempt to put a stop to the “catastrophic” loss of London’s live-music venues, including scores of pubs. 

Legal advice

How to deal with your nuisance neighbours

17-Sep-2015 By Jonathan Smith, Poppleston Allen

It has long been a doctrine in licensing law that because somebody had decided to move next door to a 2,000-capacity live music venue, there is no defence for the site in licensing law (whether that be under the old licensing regime or the new regime...

Late-night sector creates trade union

27-Apr-2015 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Sector gets together for positive promotion of industry and halting regulation.

MAKE SOME NOISE

Brighton live music venue petition set for council debate

23-Mar-2015 By Ellie Bothwell

Brighton’s music scene has launched a campaign to fight back against the closure of the city’s venues and pubs.

Make Some Noise: Revised planning guidance is 'victory for pubs'

13-Jan-2015 By Ellie Bothwell

The Government has strengthened planning guidance issued to local councils to encourage developers building homes near pubs to install soundproofing — a victory for the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s Make Some Noise campaign.

Make Some Noise: Petition calls for residents near venues to 'waive right to complain'

02-Dec-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A live music campaigner has launched a petition calling for anyone who buys or rents a property near a music venue to be forced to waive their right to complain about noise from the business.

Make Some Noise in support of pubs by signing petition

29-Oct-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

The Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s (PMA) has teamed up with the Music Venue Trust (MVT) and is calling on licensees to sign a petition urging the Government to introduce an agent-of-change principle.

Singer-songwriter Frank Turner urges Gov't to save live music pubs

12-Sep-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Musician Frank Turner has urged the Government to introduce legislation to protect live music pubs in order to prevent an “avalanche” of venues closing down.

Noise law changes urged to save live music pubs

20-Aug-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

The Government must relax noise abatement legislation and pass the responsibility for minimising disturbance away from pubs and clubs and on to residents and developers, lobbyists have urged.

Focus on Scotland

25-Jul-2002

G1 leads the way in Glagow city centre as explosion continuesThe massive explosion in Glasgow's night life over the last five years does not worry...

Luminar buys up the rights to Life

20-Jul-2001

Luminar, the UK's biggest club and bar operator, has now bought the rights to Life.It has bought two late-night venues called Life (Liverpool's Life...