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Valuing live music: The UK Live Music Census 2017 report
No full textThe UK’s first ever national live music census took place in 2017. For 24 hours from noon on Thursday 9th March, volunteers in cities across the country went out and about to live music events, from pub gigs to massed choirs to arena concerts. Live music censuses took place in our three primary snapshot cities of Glasgow, Newcastle-Gateshead and Oxford while affiliate censuses also ran in Brighton, Leeds and Southampton on 9-10 March and in Liverpool on 1-2 June, the affiliates led by members of UK Music’s Music Academic Partnership (MAP). The intention of the census project was to help measure live music’s social, cultural and economic value, discover what challenges the sector is facing and inform policy to help live music flourish.
Recent years appear to have been extremely challenging for live music venues, particularly those at the smaller end of the spectrum. There have been numerous media reports of British music venues closing because of property development and gentrification of once lively musical neighbourhoods. This is due not only to the conversion or even demolition of some venues, but also development around venues and the ensuing noise complaints from venues’ new residential neighbours. At the time of writing, a number of venues have voiced concerns about threats to their future. These include Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Bristol’s Thekla, and London’s Café Oto, the latter an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
The UK Live Music Census provides further evidence that smaller venues are facing a ‘perfect storm’ of issues at present which is affecting their long-term viability and sustainability. Some of these are internal – for example, equipment or building repairs. Many are external, such as increased business rates, strict licensing laws and the aforementioned nearby property development.
The report draws on survey data, both quantitative and qualitative, to bridge the current knowledge gap about the specific relationship between the value of live music on the one hand and the current challenges facing the UK’s live music sector on the other. It also draws on eighteen semi-structured profile interviews with individual musicians and venue workers in order to provide illustrative examples of some of these challenges. Workers from small music venues and (music) bars/pubs form the majority of the interviewees – and, indeed, a key focus of the report – as this currently appears to be the area of the sector facing the most pressing challenges. We hope that by focusing on this vital but often hidden sphere of activity and value, the live music ecology of the UK as a whole will benefit.
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Disclaimer: We should note that although the Musicians’ Union, Music Venue Trust, UK Music and various other stakeholder groups have contributed to this project in important ways, the opinions expressed and conclusions drawn are our own.
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This Item is part of the DataShare Collection "UK Live Music Census" https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3028 . Files containing associated data:
* Webster, Emma; Brennan, Matt; Behr, Adam; Cloonan, Martin; Ansell, Jake. (2018). UK Live Music Census toolkit, [interactive resource]. University of Edinburgh. ECA. Reid School of Music. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2312.
* Brennan, Matt; Behr, Adam; Cloonan, Martin; Webster, Emma "UK Live Music Census 2017 data for DataVault" (2018) https://doi.org/10.7488/206fa213-30d1-4a2c-84fe-5b5ba83ac62e .This Item is part of the DataShare Collection "UK Live Music Census" https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3028 . Files containing associated data:
* Webster, Emma; Brennan, Matt; Behr, Adam; Cloonan, Martin; Ansell, Jake. (2018). UK Live Music Census toolkit, [interactive resource]. University of Edinburgh. ECA. Reid School of Music. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2312.
* Brennan, Matt; Behr, Adam; Cloonan, Martin; Webster, Emma "UK Live Music Census 2017 data for DataVault" (2018) https://doi.org/10.7488/206fa213-30d1-4a2c-84fe-5b5ba83ac62e
UK Live Music Census toolkit
No full textThe UK Live Music Census toolkit is intended for any people or organisations seeking to measure the value of live music in their local area. It draws on our own experiences of running live music censuses in cities across the UK and contains advice and tools for conducting a successful live music census. For 24 hours from noon on Thursday 9th March 2017, an army of volunteers in cities across the country went out and about to live music events, from pub gigs to massed choirs to arena concerts. Data was collected on audiences and venues in Glasgow, Newcastle-Gateshead, Oxford, Brighton, Leeds and Southampton (and in Liverpool on 1st June), and nationwide online surveys for musicians, venues, promoters and audiences were online from March until June. The UK Live Music Census covered all genres and took a broad definition of live music to include events featuring (named) DJs. For more information see uklivemusiccensus.org
The intention was to help measure live music’s social, cultural and economic value, discover what challenges the sector was facing and inform policy to help it flourish.
The UK Live Music Census was organised by researchers from the Live Music Exchange research group, a collaboration across the universities of Edinburgh, Newcastle and Turku, Finland. In 2015, the same researchers organised a pilot census in Edinburgh, inspired by work in Melbourne in 2012. For the UK Live Music Census we are indebted to the students and staff at the University of Glasgow, Newcastle University, Sage Gateshead, Bucks New University and Oxford Brookes University for their invaluable help with local censuses in March 2017. Affiliate institutions also organised their own live music censuses in 2017 in Brighton (British and Irish Modern Music Institute, Brighton), Leeds (Leeds Beckett University), Liverpool (LIPA/University of Liverpool) and Southampton (Southampton Solent University).
The UK Live Music Census toolkit is intended for any people or organisations seeking to measure the value of live music in their local area. It draws on our own experiences of running live music censuses in cities across the UK and contains advice and tools for conducting a successful live music census.
Our intention is that the toolkit should be a guide rather than being prescriptive and is based on how we ran our live music census in March 2017. However, how your live music census will actually be conducted in practice will vary according to context.
The toolkit consists of this ‘how-to’ guide and online appendices containing, among other things, the methodology for calculating economic value, suggested text for emails, a guide to web scraping and suggestions for profile interviews and data analysis. It also includes the survey questions from our UK census, which were devised in conjunction with a number of stakeholders within the UK’s live music sector and subsequently refined following the 2017 live music census. These stakeholders included our partners on the project, the Musicians’ Union, the Music Venue Trust and UK Music, and organisations such as Attitude is Everything, Julie’s Bicycle and PRS for Music. The methodology for calculating economic value was devised by Professor Jake Ansell at the University of Edinburgh.
We hope that the toolkit will continue to be refined in subsequent live music censuses. If you carry out your own live music census, please let us know and keep us informed at [email protected]
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Disclaimer: This toolkit was produced by researchers at the University of Edinburgh and Newcastle University (‘we’). Note that this is a guide only and, while we encourage people to use it if they believe it will be helpful, ultimately the live music census that you run is your own and this toolkit is provided on an ‘as is’ basis. You can amend the methods according to suit your circumstances or not, but we accept no responsibility for, or any liability arising from, any census organised using this toolkit or from any other use of this toolkit. No warranties, promises and/or representations of any kind, whether expressed or implied, are given as to the nature, standard, accuracy or otherwise of the toolkit, nor the suitability or otherwise of the toolkit for your particular circumstances
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