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UK MUSIC · WISH YOU WERE HERE

                                                    CONTENTS
                                                INTRODUCTION
                                                  Michael Dugher                                                     3
                                                  Chief Executive Officer, UK Music

                                                FOREWORD
                                                  Steve Rotheram                                                     5
                                                  Mayor of the Liverpool City Region

                                                A HIVE OF CREATIVITY
                                                  Steve Levine                                                       6
                                                  Grammy Award-Winning Music Producer

                                                LIVERPOOL CITY REGION IN NUMBERS                                     7
                                                LIVE EVENTS                                                          7
                                                REGIONAL BREAKDOWN                                                   8
                                                NUMBERS IN CONTEXT
                                                  Natalie Williams                                                   10
                                                  Head of Research, UK Music

                                                LIVE MUSIC AS AN ATTRACTION
                                                  Becky Ayres                                                        12
                                                  Chief Operations Officer, Sound City & Modern Sky UK

                                                UK LIVE MUSIC 2016 IN NUMBERS                                        13
                                                MUSIC TOURISM 2016 IN NUMBERS                                        13
                                                A GLOBAL MUSIC HUB
                                                  Craig G. Pennington                                                14
                                                  Editor-In-Chief, Bido Lito! Magazine

                                                THE TALENT PIPELINE                                                  16
                                                ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                                     18

Photo Credit | Creamfields 2017 | © Nadia Moy
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INTRODUCTION
                           This year marks the tenth anniversary     the Wirral and St Helens also generated         Steve Rotheram, we need to set up a              fantastic music scene today. Together
                           since Liverpool was the European          over £1 million in box office spend, with       Music Board for the whole Liverpool              we can make sure that Liverpool is not
                           Capital of Culture. It’s also ten         Sefton not far off that too. Over 14,000        City Region.                                     only known right across the globe for
       IMAGE               years since UK Music, the umbrella        people went to gigs in Halton. Whilst                                                            its brilliant musical past, but that it
                           organisation     representing   every     we do not have data for Knowsley, its           Taking inspiration from San Francisco’s          continues to be a world-famous music
                           part of Britain’s music industry, was     Music and Performing Arts Service is            Entertainment Commission and the                 destination for many years to come.
                           established.                              dedicated to providing young people             London Music Board, a Music Board
MICHAEL DUGHER                                                       fantastic musical opportunities.                can work as well, if not even better,            So let’s set ourselves this challenge: in
                           So what better way to celebrate                                                           here in the new Liverpool City Region.           future, like the Beatles did more than
Chief Executive Officer,
UK Music
                           those landmarks than helping to set       Liverpool has already rightly achieved                                                           fifty years ago, can we help create an
                           out a blueprint for the Liverpool City    UNESCO ‘City of Music’ status. Just like        The London Music Board has                       environment where four young people
                           Region’s amazing music scene for the      Nashville, the home of country music            succeeded in scrapping the Met                   growing up somewhere in the Liverpool
                           next decade and hopefully for many        in the United States, Liverpool has             Police’s Form 696 which discriminated            City Region get together to make music
                           more years to come?                       an amazing music heritage of which              against grime artists in the capital. It         and go on to change the world? If we
                                                                     everyone is understandably proud.               has also improved and strengthened               get things right, I don’t see why not.
                           That’s what this report is all about.     But today we need to join forces and            relationships    between      licensing
                           Everybody knows about Liverpool’s         work even harder to nurture the music           authorities, developers and the music
                           unrivalled musical past. But we wanted    scene in the Liverpool City Region and          industry. And it is helping to inform
                           to answer this question: how important    to protect it for future generations of         changes to planning laws to protect
                           is music to Liverpool City Region today   music lovers.                                   grassroots venues. Similarly, San
                           and in future?                                                                            Francisco’s Entertainment Commission
                                                                     That’s why I welcome BOP Consulting’s           has succeeded in gaining status as
                           Thanks to our research, we know that      ‘Developing a Liverpool City of Music           a “statutory consultee” in planning
                           spending today by visitors to music       Strategy’ report and the positive               disputes affecting music venues.
                           events in the Liverpool City Region       determination of Mayor Joe Anderson,
                           - covering Liverpool city centre as       Liverpool City Council and ‘Culture             We could do all of that in the Liverpool
                           well as Sefton, Halton, Knowsley, St      Liverpool’ to support the local music           City Region if we had a Music Board. Plus
                           Helens and the Wirral - generates an      scene which brings so much enjoyment            we can do so much more - including
                           astonishing £135 million a year for       to so many people and is critical to the        enabling transport links for music fans
                           the local economy. And according to       local economy. Both that report and             to be improved, helping developing
                           our latest figures, almost one million    this ‘Wish You Were Here: Liverpool City        the right infrastructure for the music
                           people poured into live music events      Region Edition’ research provides the           industry and promoting more access to
                           in the region in 2016.                    right context to consider how the music         music education and rehearsal spaces.
                                                                     industry in Liverpool and the wider
                           Two years ago, I was lucky enough         City Region can best be protected,              Importantly, the Liverpool City Region
                           to perform at the legendary Cavern        supported and strengthened in the               Music Board would be community and
                           Club. Our research confirms that the      future.                                         industry-led. It would get all the right
                           City of Liverpool has so much to offer                                                    stakeholders around the table and be
                           when it comes to music. As well as the    The Liverpool City Region’s devolution          representative of every proud corner of
                           tourist spots on Mathew Street, there     deal recognises the need to place               the City Region. It would take forward
                           is the beautiful Liverpool Philharmonic   culture and creativity at the heart             the approach set out in ‘Developing
                           Hall, the Echo Arena, hosting global      of a strategy to accelerate economic            a Liverpool City of Music Strategy’,
                           superstars like Bob Dylan and Nile        growth, improve skills and develop a            providing opportunities for musicians
                           Rodgers, as well as the O2 Academy        distinctive offer for inward investment.        to perform and music companies to
                           and the Liverpool Empire.                 This presents a huge new opportunity            grow.
                                                                     for music across the City Region.
                           But there is so much more to the City     That’s why I strongly believe that,             Liverpool City Region is a very special
                           Region than just the City itself. Both    under the leadership of Metro Mayor             part of the world in so many ways - and
                                                                                                                     not least for its musical heritage and its
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FOREWORD                                                                                                                  A HIVE OF CREATIVITY
                              In an increasingly competitive world        The question is: how do we nurture                                              It’s been interesting contributing to       volume of very talented and well
                              and globalised economy, there is an         and support musical talent, but also                                            this report as I’ve just been reading       trained musicians that are a result of
                              increasing pressure on cities and city      develop the skills and infrastructure                                           some fascinating social media streams       the flourishing university system here.
       IMAGE                  regions to find a distinctive identity      we need to build a sustainable and                    IMAGE                     featuring highlights from the past 40
                              and niche – to cultivate difference.        successful local music industry in                                              years in Liverpool when punk was in its     For those who are either too young
                                                                          Liverpool City Region?                                                          stride.                                     or don’t want to pursue the academic
                              Liverpool City Region therefore has an                                                                                                                                  route, the LIMF Academy, run by
STEVE ROTHERAM                enormous advantage and edge based           As the success of local publishing              STEVE LEVINE                    Eric’s, the now famous Liverpool venue,     the Liverpool City Council, offers a
                              on our extraordinary cultural history       company       Sentric   testifies,   the                                        would be hosting a wide genre of live       most enriching program encouraging
Mayor of the Liverpool City                                                                                               Grammy Award-Winning Music
Region                        and its inexhaustible capacity to create.   digitalisation    of    music      makes        Producer                        bands all of whom went on to become         anybody across the whole Merseyside
                                                                          geography less important and creates                                            the next big thing in the subsequent        area to enter a competition.
                              Music and Liverpool are synonymous.         space for a more distributed, nimble                                            decade. To pick a few names from the
                              It’s the city that gave birth to the most   and innovative industry. I want music                                           archive listings, some are still touring    So far, the entrants have been
                              important pop culture phenomenon            to be an essential thread of our Fourth                                         today, Tom Robinson, XTC, Ultravox &        enormously diverse. Prizes include cash
                              of the 20th century and has provided        Industrial Revolution economy; it’s                                             Talking Heads.                              to purchase any musical or recording
                              more UK number 1 hits than anywhere         integral to who we are, so we need to                                                                                       equipment and a year’s worth of
                              else. It’s not only the prolific success    ensure it is a fundamental component                                            This illustrates how important smaller      mentoring by industry professionals,
                              of local musicians that has led to the      of what we will be in the future.                                               venues are for emerging talent, they        as well as a BBC Music Introducing
                              city’s designation as a UNESCO World                                                                                        allow development, to flesh out             session that exposes their work to the
                              City of Music, but also the rich variety                                                                                    material in front of a small paying         widest possible audience that would
                              of influences and styles that have                                                                                          audience, whose instant reaction will       be listening for emerging talent.
                              crafted a distinctive sound and spirit.                                                                                     help shape the arrangements of the
                                                                                                                                                          songs and the future live set of the        The Liverpool region also offers a
                              And of course this musical heritage is                                                                                      band, gaining fans along the way.           diverse range of options for music
                              not confined to the boundaries of the                                                                                                                                   tourism, for cutting edge brand new
                              city of Liverpool.                                                                                                          Liverpool in the late 70s was a             acts there is Sound City, or Psych Fest.
                                                                                                                                                          very different place. Many venues
                              In truth artists from every part of                                                                                         then had fewer issues with noise            If your taste is more main stream then
                              our City Region have contributed                                                                                            pollution. In fact, there were so many      the entertainment options range from
                              to the lustre of Liverpool’s musical                                                                                        empty properties landlords actively         musicals at the Empire Theatre, touring
                              reputation. Music is part of a shared                                                                                       encouraged use of these properties.         world class acts at the Echo arena,
                              DNA that binds our city region together                                                                                                                                 through to the Liverpool Philharmonic
                              and underpins a common attitude and                                                                                         Fast forward to 2017/18 and the region      whose orchestral season features a rich
                              identity.                                                                                                                   is fast becoming the place to be with       repertoire of musicians and conductors
                                                                                                                                                          many property developers refurbishing       from around the world. This sits side
                              We have a yearning to make music, and                                                                                       Victorian    warehouses         and  old    by side with the pubs, clubs and tiny
                              from generation to generation, we have                                                                                      industrial areas to fulfil the demand for   independent venues that Liverpool is
                              entertained, charmed, challenged and                                                                                        high quality student accommodation          known for. Walk down any street day
                              influenced the world.                                                                                                       along with new family homes for those       or night you will hear live music blaring
                                                                                                                                                          relocating to the North West.               out!
                              One of my biggest ambitions as
                              Metro Mayor is to harness the talent                                                                                        Even in the city’s Baltic Triangle, where
                              and creative energy of our people to                                                                                        my studio is based, there is pressure
                              ensure that it can thrive and prosper                                                                                       on some of the existing venues, so I
                              here. That’s the purpose and context of                                                                                     am thrilled that the Agent of Change
                              this report. How we use something that                                                                                      principle is now being adopted.
                              the world knows we are uniquely good
                              at, to add unique value to our future                                                                                       One of the many things that attracted
                              economy.                                                                                                                    me to the North West is the sheer
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LIVERPOOL CITY REGION IN NUMBERS                                                                                REGIONAL BREAKDOWN

937,000                                              416,000                                                                    SEFTON
Total live music audience in Liverpool City Region   Number of music tourists in Liverpool                                                                                                                    KNOWSLEY
in 2016                                              City Region in 2016                                                        £929,000
                                                                                                                                                                                                            *£ BOX OFFICE SPEND
                                                                                                                                BOX OFFICE SPEND
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    *ATTENDEES
                                                                                                                                22,834 ATTENDEES

520,000                                              £135 MILLION
Total local attendance of Liverpool City Region      Total direct and indirect spend generated by
residents at music events in 2016                    music tourism in Liverpool City Region                                     WIRRAL                                                                        ST. HELENS
                                                                                                                                £1.2 MILLION                                                                         £1.2 MILLION
                                                                                                                                BOX OFFICE SPEND                                                                BOX OFFICE SPEND

44%                                                  20,000                                                                     40,498 ATTENDEES                                                                25,460 ATTENDEES

Proportion of live music audiences in Liverpool      Number of overseas music tourists visiting
City Region that are music tourists                  Liverpool City Region

                                                                                                                                LIVERPOOL                                                                            HALTON
                                                                                                                                £44.7 MILLION                                                                             £313,000
                                                                                                                                BOX OFFICE SPEND                                                                BOX OFFICE SPEND

LIVE EVENTS                                                                                                                     833,020 ATTENDEES                                                                14,976 ATTENDEES

                 FESTIVALS                                          PARKS
                 £23.3 MILLION BOX OFFICE SPEND                     £500,000 BOX OFFICE SPEND
                 237,000 ATTENDEES                                  7,000 ATTENDEES                                                        LIVERPOOL CITY REGION TOURISM NUMBERS IN PROPORTION TO
                                                                                                                                                               THE REST OF THE UK

                 ARENAS                                             OTHER
                 £14.2 MILLION BOX OFFICE SPEND                     £5.6 MILLION BOX OFFICE SPEND
                 312,000 ATTENDEES                                  200,000 ATTENDEES

                 STADIUMS                                           GRASSROOTS                                                        3.3%                                      3.0%                                      3.6%
                 £1.7 MILLION BOX OFFICE SPEND                      £3.2 MILLION BOX OFFICE SPEND
                 27,000 ATTENDEES                                   155,000 ATTENDEES

                                                                                                                                    Spending                                Attendance                                Employment

                                                                                                                          £135 MILLION                                     937,000                                      1,701

                                                                                                             *Using the current methodology to produce Wish You Were Here – Liverpool City Region edition no data was available for Knowsley
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                                                                        NUMBERS IN CONTEXT
                                                                                                        UK Music is committed to initiatives       music events across the City Region.
                                                                                                        which enhance understanding of our         Events such as Creamfields, the
                                                                                                        globally successful music industry. This   Liverpool International Music Festival,
                                                                              IMAGE                     is achieved by the gathering of strong     Africa Oye and Sound City each attract
                                                                                                        data and robust evidence. We then          tens of thousands of music fans.
                                                                                                        present the data in reports, such as
                                                                                                        Wish You Were Here, to enable policy       We can also reveal that direct spending
                                                                        NATALIE WILLIAMS                makers to make informed decisions to       from music tourists was £66 million
                                                                        Head of Research, UK Music      support the continued growth of our        at festivals and £32 million while
                                                                                                        sector.                                    attending concerts, further underlining
                                                                                                                                                   why music tourism is such a vital part
                                                                                                        Our reports are used by the                of the City Region economy.
                                                                                                        Government, Parliament, academics,
                                                                                                        students and industry. They also attract   “Wish You Were Here – Liverpool
                                                                                                        national media coverage.                   City Region Edition” is the first ever
                                                                                                                                                   music industry report dedicated to
                                                                                                        First published in 2013, Wish You          analysing music activity in a combined
                                                                                                        Were Here annually shines the light        authority area. We recognise the
                                                                                                        on the contribution of music tourism       potential that this new system of
                                                                                                        to the UK economy. These reports           devolved government presents to
                                                                                                        have demonstrated that UK spending         growing regional music industries and
                                                                                                        attributed to music tourism has grown      increasing productivity. This report will
                                                                                                        by a massive 81% over a four-year          support that potential.
                                                                                                        period.

                                                                                                        To produce Wish You Were Here, UK
                                                                                                        Music annually gathers an enormous
                                                                                                        amount of data relating to tickets
                                                                                                        purchased for concerts and festivals.
                                                                                                        This is kindly supplied by promoters,
                                                                                                        ticket agents and venues from across
                                                                                                        the UK.

                                                                                                        The data is then analysed by our
                                                                                                        partners at Oxford Economics. They
                                                                                                        produce a model that allows us to
                                                                                                        measure live music attendance at
                                                                                                        a local and tourist level, as well as
                                                                                                        spending and box office figures.

                                                                                                        Based on headline data for our
                                                                                                        Wish You Were Here 2017 report,
                                                                                                        Oxford Economics have been able to
                                                                                                        disaggregate box office data for live
                                                                                                        music events across the Liverpool City
                                                                                                        Region.

                                                                                                        This has revealed that over £48 million
                                                                                                        was spent on tickets alone for live

Photo Credit | Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) | © LIMF
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                                                LIVE MUSIC AS AN ATTRACTION
                                                                                Ask anyone to name the world’s most         the unique live music experince that
                                                                                important music cities, and Liverpool       Liverpool offers.
                                                                                would be jockeying for position among
                                                      IMAGE                     the top spots. The city’s musical history   Like many of the major music events
                                                                                is rich and its exports are numerous        hosted in the region, Sound City has
                                                                                – with particular mention going to a        also become a key network for music
                                                                                certain quartet – but it’s more than        professionals.
                                                BECKY AYRES                     that. Still today, music is simply in the
                                                                                air here.                                   When they’re not watching exciting
                                                Chief Operations Officer,
                                                Sound City & Modern Sky UK
                                                                                                                            young acts on one of our many stages,
                                                                                It was that which inspired us to create     industry executives use Sound City as
                                                                                Sound City in 2008. With the Liverpool      a place to discuss the shape of the
                                                                                City Region as the base, we wanted          business, meet with their peers, do
                                                                                to hold a celebration of the North as       deals and forge new relationships. In
                                                                                a musical powerhouse. And, perhaps          fact we’ve calculated that the number
                                                                                more importantly, we wanted to create       of contracts signed at Sound City over
                                                                                a platform for the best new music – not     the years have a combined value of £19
                                                                                just from northern England but all over     million.
                                                                                the world. We wanted to champion
                                                                                exciting musicians and tell them that       That’s a figure that we’re incredibly
                                                                                they could develop their craft and          proud of, but it’s also testament to
                                                                                earn a living from their art without        the continued creativity, influence and
                                                                                necessarily having to move to the           inspiration that can be found in the
                                                                                capital.                                    music scenes of Liverpool and its sister
                                                                                                                            towns and cities of the North.
                                                                                With a potential live audience reach
                                                                                of almost one million, the region’s live
                                                                                music scene is an attractive prospect
                                                                                for grassroots artists as we see more
                                                                                and more coming to the area to cut
                                                                                their teeth in the regions legendary
                                                                                music venues and festivals.

                                                                                Ten years on, we have showcased
                                                                                thousands of bands and artists early
                                                                                in their careers, including acts that
                                                                                have gone on to rule the airwaves such
                                                                                as Ed Sheeran, Alt-J, Bastille, Skepta,
                                                                                Florence + The Machine and The 1975.

                                                                                The Sound City team has created a hub
                                                                                for more than 200,000 music fans to
                                                                                gather from over 30 different countries.

                                                                                In fact, this report has shown us that
                                                                                almost half of the live music audience is
                                                                                generated by music tourism. Therefore
                                                                                we need to do more to nurture this
                                                                                audience that is willing to travel for
Image Credit - Dr. Cédric Mesnage of
Southampton Solent University as part of the
research into identifying hot spots for music
events taking place across the UK.
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UK LIVE MUSIC 2016 IN NUMBERS                                                                                 A GLOBAL MUSIC HUB
30.9 MILLION                                     27 MILLION                                                                                   Liverpool has a deep and unique
                                                                                                                                              relationship with music. Few cities in
                                                                                                                                              the world have music at the heart of
                                                                                                                                                                                            live music and club culture thrive; with
                                                                                                                                                                                            a more detailed understanding of the
                                                                                                                                                                                            role music venues play in the local
Total audience that attended live music          Total concert attendance in the UK in
events in the UK in 2016                  +12%   2016                                             +13%               IMAGE                    their city’s being, their people’s identity   ecology and the contexts needed for
                                                                                                                                              and their economy in the way Liverpool        them to operate successfully. Whether
                                                                                                                                              does. From Merseybeat to Cream, the           it be in the Baltic Triangle, Ten Streets,
                                                                                                                                              grassroots music venues, clubs, cafés         Mathew Street, Ropewalks or anywhere

 3.9 MILLION                                     18.4 MILLION                                                 CRAIG G. PENNINGTON
                                                                                                              Editor-In-Chief,
                                                                                                              Bido Lito! Magazine
                                                                                                                                              and hangouts of our city have given
                                                                                                                                              birth to movements that have shaped
                                                                                                                                              global pop culture, numerous times
                                                                                                                                                                                            else, music needs to be considered and
                                                                                                                                                                                            prioritised across all areas of planning
                                                                                                                                                                                            and policy.
 Total festival attendance in the UK in          Local residents attended local music
 2016                                     +6%    events in the UK in 2016                          +7%                                        over. Liverpool’s live music culture is
                                                                                                                                              both our city’s DNA, and our gift to the      In order to achieve this we need a
                                                                                                                                              world.                                        new form of sector-led leadership
                                                                                                                                                                                            around music policy in the city.
                                                                                                                                              However, in the almost eight years            And, reassuringly, ‘Liverpool, Music
                                                                                                                                              we have been publishing Bido Lito! it         City?’ demonstrates an appetite for
                                                                                                                                              seems the live music scene has been           collaboration between the sector,
                                                                                                                                              in a constant state of crisis. From           the city region, city council and our
MUSIC TOURISM IN NUMBERS 2016                                                                                                                 noise abatement notices to planning
                                                                                                                                              decisions and rates disputes. This has
                                                                                                                                                                                            universities. Future strategies around
                                                                                                                                                                                            developing music in the city need to
                                                                                                                                              led to a number of venues closing.            have the sector – at all levels, from the
                                                                                                                                              Some have survived, but for how long?         grassroots up – at the table.
 £4 BILLION                                      £2.5 BILLION                                                                                 Some of the challenges we face are            With the welcome move towards the
 Total direct and indirect spend                 Amount spent directly by music                                                               unique to Liverpool. Many are not. In         city’s first Music Strategy and the
 generated by music tourism in the UK     +11%   tourists                                          +9%                                        our 2017 report ‘Liverpool, Music City?’,     establishment of a sector-led Music
                                                                                                                                              published in partnership with Liverpool       Advisory Board, we are cautiously
                                                                                                                                              John Moores University, the music             optimistic that the necessary political

 12.5 MILLION                                    823,000
                                                                                                                                              community cited venue closures and            will is in place for this to become a
                                                                                                                                              other issues such as noise complaints         reality. 2018 could be a watershed
                                                                                                                                              and developer power as the most               moment for the region, a year when
 Music tourists in 2016                          Overseas music tourists in 2016                                                              consistent challenges to the city’s live      we finally realise a vision to achieve
                                          +20%                                                     +7%
                                                                                                                                              music culture.                                what the rest of world has assumed for
                                                                                                                                                                                            decades; that Liverpool really is a truly
                                                                                                                                              We called for Liverpool to adopt              global music city.

 47,445                                          £850
                                                                                                                                              the Agent Of Change principle in
                                                                                                                                              local planning policy, so the recent
                                                                                                                                              Government move is welcome and
 Full time jobs sustained by music               Average spend by overseas music                                                              could be a real catalyst for change. This
 tourism in 2016                          +22%   tourists in the UK in 2016                        +1%
                                                                                                                                              move does, however, come lamentably
                                                                                                                                              late for some.

 £656 MILLION                                    £45 MILLION                                                                                  Though the positive strides around
                                                                                                                                              UK Music’s Agent Of Change campaign
                                                                                                                                              should be celebrated, there are still
 Box office spend on tickets by music            Total box office spend on tickets by
                                          +19%                                                    +20%                                        many other issues at play. There is a
 tourists in 2016                                overseas music tourists in 2016
                                                                                                                                              need for greater clarity around the
                                                                                                                                              overall ambitions for areas in which
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                                                           THE TALENT PIPELINE
                                                                                           LIPA is an independent Higher               Despite the closure of some key
                                                                                           Education institution with over 860         grassroots music venues in the past few
                                                                                           full-time students from 38 countries,       years, the local music scene continues
                                                                                           studying degree courses in a range          to thrive in both well-established and
                                                                                           of performing arts related subjects,        new venues. The government’s decision
                                                                                           including      music,        songwriting    to include the “agent of change”
                                                                                           and production, as well as music            principle in planning law is welcome
                                                           HELEN DAVIES                    management, live and studio sound,          news for a city like Liverpool, where
                                                           Liverpool Institute for         and performance technology and              city centre residential developments
                                                           Performing Arts (LIPA)          design. LIPA has a high level of graduate   exist side by side with live music
                                                                                           and industry success with notable LIPA      venues. For LIPA Music students and
                                                                                           Music alumni including Sandi Thom,          Liverpool bands, venues such as LEAF,
                                                                                           The Wombats, The Staves and Frances.        EBGBs, Arts Club, Magnet, Jacaranda,
                                                                                                                                       Sound, Shipping Forecast, Studio
                                                                                           The 2ube is a weekly LIPA showcase          2, Zanzibar, Invisible Wind Factory,
                                                                                           gig and networking event and is also        District, Moloko, 81 Renshaw, Kazimier
                                                                                           edited into a one hour TV show hosted       Garden, Buyers Club, 24 Kitchen Street,
                                                                                           by Janice Long and broadcast on Made        Parr St Studios, Hus, 27 Club, Camp and
                                                                                           in Liverpool TV via Freeview, Virgin and    Furnace, Blade Factory, and Drop the
                                                                                           Sky providing LIPA and new bands from       Dumbells, have played a crucial role
                                                                                           the region with a potential reach of        in their development as performers
                                                                                           millions each week across the North         and the continuation of Liverpool as a
                                                                                           West and the UK. LIPA students access       music city.
                                                                                           an audience through weekly in-house
                                                                                           gig nights, industry showcases and
                                                                                           an annual two-week live streamed
                                                                                           festival: 2ubeXtra.

                                                                                           According to Peter Guy from the
                                                                                           Liverpool Echo and GIT (Getintothis)
                                                                                           Awards, students from LIPA “have really
                                                                                           integrated themselves with homegrown
                                                                                           talent.” Local music journalist Emma
                                                                                           Walsh notes: “Almost unnoticed, LIPA
                                                                                           has woven itself into the fabric of the       LIPA is a member of MAP (Music
                                                                                           Liverpool music scene, bringing a fresh       Academic Partnership) –        our
                                                                                           often more international taste to the         ground-breaking      collaboration
                                                                                           Merseyside scene, resulting in one of         between a select group of
                                                                                           the richest and Cosmopolitan musical          educational institutions and UK
                                                                                           landscapes in the UK.”                        Music’s members. It helps bring
                                                                                                                                         industry and academia together
                                                                                           Celebrating 10 years of Liverpool music       to work across a range of areas
                                                                                           in 2017, GIT listed 101 artists and bands     including research, networking,
                                                                                           that have shaped Merseyside music,            student    experience,     careers
                                                                                           including many LIPA-associated artists        information and much more.
                                                                                           and bands such as All We Are, Clean Cut
                                                                                           Kid, Dan Croll, Eleanor Nelly, Natalie
                                                                                           McCool, Pink Kink, Stealing Sheep, Tyler
                                                                                           Mensah, and Trudy and the Romance.

Photo Credit | Jamm Studios, St. Helens | © Jamm Studios
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                                                                                                                                            ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  Wish You Were Here - Liverpool City                    Music are: AIM, BASCA, BPI, FAC, MMF,                                              Throughout this project we have received                Note – In the Liverpool City region flyers
  Region Edition is created on behalf of                 MPA, MPG, MU, PPL, PRS for Music and                                               support from a wide range of individuals and            published November 2017 the tourism spending
  UK Music and its members to highlight                  the Live Music Group                                                               organisations that have provided datasets               figure provided was for the Direct Spend only.
  the contribution of live music and                                                                                                        essential to this analysis. These include:              In this report all figures include both Direct and
  music tourism to the Liverpool City                    The UK Live Music Group is made up                                                                                                         indirect spending.
  Region economy.                                        of members of the Association for                                                  •   AEG Live
                                                         Electronic Music (AFEM), Association of                                            •   Arts & Festivals Management                         The analysis was carried out by Oxford Economics
  This is UK Music’s first report based on               Independent Festivals (AIF), Association                                           •   De Montfort University                              and a methodological statement is to be found
  the new Combined Authority structure.                  of Festival Organisers (AFO), Concert                                              •   The Association of                                  on the UK Music website. The project is managed
                                                         Promoters Association (CPA), Agents                                                    Independent Festivals                               by Natalie Williams, Head of Research at UK
  UK Music is the umbrella organisation                  Association (AAGB), International Live                                             •   AXS                                                 Music.
  which represents the collective                        Music Conference (ILMC), National                                                  •   BBC Music
  interests of the UK’s commercial music                 Arenas Association (NAA), Production                                               •   Glasgow Concert Halls                               For all media enquiries contact:
  industry - from artists, musicians,                    Services Association (PSA) and Music                                               •   Live Nation                                         Vincent Moss
  songwriters and composers, to                          Venue Trust (MVT) with contributions                                               •   Music Venue Trust                                   Director of Communications
  record labels, music managers, music                   from PRS for Music Foundation, MU,                                                 •   National Arenas Association                         vincent.moss@ukmusic.org
  publishers, studio producers, music                    MMF, FAC and BPI.                                                                  •   PRS for Music                                       020 3713 8444
  licensing organisations and the live                                                                                                      •   Sage Gateshead
  music industry. The members of UK                                                                                                         •   See Tickets                                         For all policy enquires contact:
                                                                                                                                            •   Symphony Hall, Birmingham                           Tom Kiehl
                                                                                                                                            •   Theatre Royal Concert Hall,                         Director of Government & Public Affairs, UK Music
                                                                                                                                                Nottingham                                          tom.kiehl@ukmusic.org
                                                                                                                                            •   Ticket Factory                                      020 3713 8454
                                                                                                                                            •   Ticketmaster                                        This report is designed by
                                                                                                                                            •   We Got Tickets                                      Beatriz Ribeiro at UK Music
                                                                                                                                            We are grateful to all venues, festivals and other      All material copyright © UK Music 2018 unless
                                                                                                                                            businesses featured as case studies in this report      indicated otherwise
                                                                                                                                            for sharing information and pictures. Additional
                                                                                                                                            thanks to all of our membership organisations           Published in 2018
                                                                                                                                            for their support and help with this report.
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                                                                                                                                            We are especially greateful to Dr. Cédric Mesnage       4th Floor
                                                                                                                                            of Southampton Solent University for allowing us        49 Whitehall
                                                                                                                                            the use of his Research identifying music events        London SW1A 2BX
                                                                                                                                            happening in inner city Liverpool (Ref. Page 11).
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