UK grassroots venues get star-studded lifeline as Glastonbury takes a break

6,000 jobs lost in the music venue sector due to pandemic aftermath and regulatory changes; emerging artists face severe financial barriers to starting careers.

Across more than fifty venues this weekend, thousands of artists are performing in the smallest rooms they can find — not out of modesty, but out of urgency. The UK's grassroots music scene, which has lost over a third of its clubs since the pandemic and shed six thousand jobs, is staging a collective act of witness called Everywhere At Once. These intimate spaces are not merely entertainment infrastructure; they are the incubators where artistic identity is forged, where genres are born, and where the next generation learns what it means to stand before an audience. The question being asked,

UK grassroots venues get star-studded lifeline as Glastonbury takes a break

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