Live music worth £123m to Bristol, but venues struggling
Over 900 Bristolians rely on the concert business for their livelihoods, finds a new report, but half of venues are under pressure from development
News By IQ | 7 March 2016
UK Music and Buckinghamshire New University today published the Bristol Live Music Census Report, which reveals that live music generated £123m of revenue towards the local economy – £45m gross value added (GVA) – and helped support 927 full-time equivalent jobs in the English city in 2015.
The two organisations, both backers of the Music Academic Partnership, say “recent concerns about the future of live music venues in the UK” promoted the census of audiences and venues in Bristol, which, with 94 music venues, is…
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