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Advertisement Another repeated sentiment was that Brexit only stood to damage the UK’s “soft power” as a leading force in music, and that visa-free travel throughout the EU for artists and crew would be the easiest solution. After the UK government said they put the responsibility for the lack of arrangements for artists at the foot of the EU and the European Commission then denied that they had rejected the UK’s “ambitious proposals”, yesterday’s debate saw the Conservative Minister for Digital and Culture in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media Caroline Dineage reject the idea that negotiating visa-free touring was an option and repeated that “the UK pushed for ambitious arrangements” but claim that “quite simply the EU rejected this and there was no counter offer”. ....
Newcastle MP warns Brexit rules will devastate the UK music industry chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After over 280,000 people signed a petition calling for visa-free touring through the EU to be established for artists and crew, the campaign was confirmed to be debated by MPs in Parliament. The debate happened today (February 8), with over an hour of testimony coming from cross-party politicians, calling on the government for action and clarity to prevent the prohibitive new rules around touring from damaging the £5.7billion music industry. Advertisement The XX perform live during a concert at the Astra Club on January 22, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.(Photo by Jakubaszek/Getty Images) Another repeated sentiment was that Brexit only stood to damage the UK’s “soft power” as a leading force in music, and that visa-free travel throughout the EU for artists and crew would be the easiest solution. After the UK government said they put the responsibility for the lack of arrangements for artists at the foot of the EU and the European Commission then denied that they had ....
An online misinformation detection tool developer has created a new version of its software which will flag misleading health claims linked to Covid-19. NewsGuard, which launched its original misinformation filter in the UK in 2019, has now created a new browser extension called HealthGuard. Free to download and use with all major browsers – Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge – the tool displays colour-coded ratings next to links on search engines, social media and other platforms to indicate whether the site is a trustworthy source of health information. NewsGuard’s ratings use nine criteria to measure whether a source can be trusted and if not, warns users to proceed with caution when they encounter information from that source. ....
BBC News Published Before the pandemic, they d host some of the most memorable nights of the year. But it s now been 10 months without gigs for independent venues because of coronavirus, which has devastated the industry. The last year has been really tough. We haven t opened at all during this whole period since March, Dom Fraser - director of The Boileroom in Guildford tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. She s been running the venue for 15 years. This week is Independent Venue Week, and her venue had a full, socially distanced line-up booked in - but that got cancelled at the last minute. According to the Music Venues Trust - over 400 Grassroots music venues in the UK are at imminent risk of being closed permanently. ....