The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

A choice of panels, working groups and presentations to support and develop your venue.

13:30-14:30

Gunfighters of the Casa Grande – Our partners fighting your cause

Where: Yellow Room

Presentations by TicketWeb, UK Music, MusicPlanet Live & Love Music Hate Racism on their work with the grassroots music venues sector.

Featuring Gillian Henderson, Sarah Slater, John Spellar MP, Richard Taylor, Paul Samuels and Wayman Bennett

How many times are music lovers going to grassroots music venues per year? What’s the main attraction for them? Agent of Change is coming to the UK, but when and how? What progress has been made in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? What tools can MPL offer you? How can you support Love Music Hate Racism?

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16:00-17:00

The Big Gundown – Promoters and Venues

Where: Blue Room

Chair: Sarah Thirtle (MVT Chair)

Panelists: John Rostron (AIP), Sally Ann Oakenfold (Sticky Mike’s/Hope&Ruin), Guto Brychan (Clwb Ifor Bach), Gillian Henderson (Ticketmaster)

Panel discussion on how promoters and venues currently work together. What are the pressures on promoters from agents/artists, and how do they impact on the pressure on venues from promoters? What are the opportunities to do improve the ways we do things? Who has the short term benefit and who has the long term benefit?

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View the full conference programme here. TicketWeb is proud to be the headline sponsor of Venues Day.