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SAM SWEEK highlights the devastation Tory policies have visited on the music industry
Martha Reeves and The Vandellas performing at the Arches, Glasgow on July 18 2010 [TheArches/flickr/CC]

WE ARE facing the biggest decline in living standards in living memory.

Millions of people up and down the country are now dependent on foodbanks, with over 100,000 having to access warm banks each week and many more are taking on multiple jobs just to keep the radiators on in their homes and to put food on their table.  

Over a decade of austerity, cuts and the Covid-19 pandemic has taken its toll on almost every single aspect of modern society.  The lasting negative impact of the cost of living crisis remains to be seen but, for the live music and entertainment industry, it may just be the latest hammerblow to a sector where serious financial issues have gone unaddressed for too long.

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