The New Europeans: Live music’s Brexit exiles
Gone are the days of UK-based touring companies operating unimpeded in Europe. In this post-Brexit world, a continental operation is the latest (very) expensive must-have
Feature By | 10 June 2021
When the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced on Christmas Eve 2020 that the UK had signed a free trade agreement, the TCA (Trade and Cooperation Agreement), with the European Union, there was a collective sigh of relief across much of Britain.
Four and a half tortuous years after the Brexit vote, the UK was finally out, and people on both sides of the new border could finally get on with their lives.
Well, sort of. That is, of course, unless…