Exciting news and weekend coming up for blues and rock fans as acclaimed blues-rock guitarist Laurence Jones has a special Record Store Day 2025 release featuring the legendary blues-rock guitarist Rory Gallagher. This unique double A-side 12″ vinyl single will showcase two brand new recordings of Gallagher classics, ‘Bad Penny‘ and ‘Follow Me‘, incorporating Rory […]
Review: Laurence Jones, Support Tom Killner The Drill (April 5th 2025) Reviewer / Photographer – Dan Mann It was a welcome return to The Drill in Lincoln, a venue which is fast becoming one of my favorite venues. The ‘Rockin’ The Grassroots Tour‘ is part of the Music Venue Trust’s continued support for grassroots venues, […]
Today Award-winning Blues-Rock guitarist Laurence Jones has announced the support artists for his 2025 UK Headline Tour, which will see Laurence tour in the electric power-trio format to a total of thirty intimate grass-roots independent music venues across England, Scotland and Wales. He has announced that he will be supported by Irish trio Pixie Cut […]
Music Venue Trust (MVT), the charity which represents hundreds of Grassroots Music Venues (GMVs), has called upon politicians from all parties to “seize the moment” ahead of the forthcoming UK General Election on July 4th, and to help save the sector from the deepening crisis it finds itself in. MVT has published a report entitled […]
British metal heavyweights Conjurer have been selected by Kerrang! to join the United By Music Tour, organised by Music Venue Trust, the charity partners for the Kerrang! Awards 2022. Conjurer will be performing at: Sep 08: Peterborough Met Lounge Sep 09: Bedford Esquires Sep 10: Tunbridge Wells Forum Sep 15: Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill Sep 16: Cambridge Portland Sep 17: Derby Hairy Dog Tickets are on sale at 10am BST on 11th August, available here: unitedbymusic.live Conjurer’s Brady Deeprose says: “Conjurer simply would not exist without the UK’s extensive network of Grassroots Music Venues. We cut our teeth playing everywhere from Merthyr Tydfil to Barrow-In-Furness for years, and we were lucky to be […]
UK festival favourites Skindred have signed a new global four album deal with Earache Records, with each band member signing the deal in different endangered music venues across the country. Earache Records have long been one of the most exciting, forward-thinking and important rock labels in the world, having pioneered many extreme metal bands and in recent years enjoying Top 40 success with bands such as Blackberry Smoke, Buckcherry, […]
An antidote to the most stressful of seasons, the Annual Christmas Without Tears Variety Charity live program goes virtual for its 15th year “the show started as a party in our home to try to comfort Judith, a Welsh woman prone to melancholia, who could not stand that the fact that Christmas in Southern California was about 78 degrees and sunny” as Harry Shearer tells it. What began as a humble holiday house party to chase away Judith’s yuletide blues became a charity event and performance in 2005 when they staged it to aid the people of New Orleans after Katrina. – over the years, live shows in London, New York, New Orleans, Chicago […]
Music Venue Trust (MVT) has announced that the #saveourvenues campaign launched three weeks ago today has now resulted in 140 grassroots music venues being removed from its ‘critical’ list. #saveourvenues, which has so far raised over £1.5m in donations, was initiated by MVT in response to the continued economic threat to over 500 grassroots music […]
Music Venue Trust has announced #saveourvenues, a new national campaign to save hundreds of grassroots music venues at imminent risk of being closed down – permanently. Without these independent venues the live music scene in the UK will die. These grassroots venues play a crucial role in the development of British music, nurturing local talent, […]
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