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Small venues used to be the place to be on a night out, with cheap tickets, great company and amazing live music. Live music has been a crucial part of an evening out since god knows when. Having a dance hall with jazz players or blues band at a bar was the norm for people to see on their Friday or Saturday night out. Over the years the music became less in the background and was centre stage as the main act. Underground nightclubs and basements were new venues for the rebellious, bored teens to spend their time and money once again with amazing music.

Pubs did regular open mic nights and would have local bands come play and could fit as many people in as they could, which for some people would be the only live music they could get too so, this was perfect for socialising. Unfortunately live music in such venues is slowly dying out due to the new modern age ways and being substituted with a club night out of electronic music.

Health and safety has had a big impact on the way things have to be run. It’s made the intimacy of some concerts become less interesting to the target audience. The youth would sneak in underage and drink, smoke and live the life. However the laws now make it too hard to do such thing. I disagree with this act of under aged substances however the sport of rebelliousness, this was key for teens and I think gives character to their upbringing.  

Customers enjoyed the familiarity of the venue. Even if it was in the middle of London some people would be regulars every week. You would start to know names of bar tenders and be able to freely voice your opinion onto who owned that venue. For the small acts that were put on, they used this as a starter pack for their later performances. They could slowly learn set up arrangements and the do’s and don’ts of tore in a low cost environment.  By these types of venues not being around most bands will have to rely on an online status of promotion. One reason this is bad is because of the vast amounts of people competing. It makes it extremely hard to get their moment in the spot light.

The streaming industry is a major competitor with live music and is slowly decreasing sails in every way possible. The CD is being driven out because people want to have easy ways to have music on their phone. This then impact the sail rates and the artist/mangers have to make this money back somehow. They have realised they can do this by increasing the prices of ticket sales. Therefore, less people wanting to spend that much money on these once endless experiences, on a Friday night.

Eventually arenas were being built and becoming popular venues so bigger artists were getting better places to put on a show. People would save for months to go and see there favourite artists. Therefore the small venues had to up there prices to keep themselves afloat, driving more and more customers away. These made the smaller venues lose loyal customer and for some would mean eventually closing down.  

There is an amazing program called the grassroots scheme which back small venues to help them keep going. Sony is now a part of this because they understand the importance of artists building up their profile. Big artist such as Ed Sheeran, Adele and many more would not be where they are now with out there fair shear of pubs and dingy scenes but this gives them the proof to say they needed this to learn the way.

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