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ON FEBRUARY 12, the Guardian published an illuminating and soul-destroying article by Joseph Middleton.
The director of Leeds Lieder festival highlights how the nature of the current Brexit agreement is implemented has created insane scenarios, including having to fork out £600 for a gig he had had in the diary for two years.
The article goes on to describe how a lot of the chaos has been hidden away because so many cancellations were a result of Covid-19, and not because performers lost out on work due to bureaucracy.
Middleton has not been the first person in the music industry to criticise the nature of the Brexit agreement.
Despite repeated assurances that the government understood the need for frictionless travel after Brexit, hugely increased bureaucracy and costs look set to devastate the present – and the future – of musicians and music-making in the UK