“It’s really important for us to be at the forefront on the sustainability and inclusion questions, to inspire others and help with all these things. If we don’t have a sustainable future, we may not have a future at all.”
Communication Officer
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Together with 11 other European music organisations, Live DMA is part of the advisory board of the feasibility study investigating a possible future full-scale establishment of a data collection organisation called The Observatory as a core strategic resource to drive relevance and value for future policy actions in the music portfolio and across the sector. This feasibility study in conducted by KEA and Panteia.…
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The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is extremely harsh for the live music sector, already strained by months of adjustments and uncertainties. The precarious situation of many venues, clubs, and festivals increases day by day and hundreds of live music stages are at imminent risk of closing permanently. The diversity of the entire music…
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Together with 109 pan-European cultural networks and organisations, we published an open letter on October 30, 2020, to call the European Union (EU) and EU member states to protect culture as part of the coronavirus recovery plans and dedicate at the very least 2% of national Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) budget to culture and…
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In March 2020, at the occasion of our Live Style Europe Podcast, we interviewed Isabelle ‘Isi’ Von Walterskirchen, board member of PETZI and manager of the Clubbüro at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich about the concept and principles of horizontal governance, a democratic and non-profit practice of management. Find out more about horizontal governance in…
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Ethic charters, guidelines, manifestos, special programmes or mission statements are a great way of developing humane policies around the values communities would like to see in society. By making explicit their values, live music scenes commit to them. They state who they are and who they are going to be for the next years. They…
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Folken is a concert venue and a students’ house in Stavanger, Norway. In 2013, the venue experienced a drop in visits and revenue as well as an overall bad reputation from their neighbours and the students of Stavanger. To counter this, they decided to research exactly what people thought of Folken as well as what they…
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Today, 26 organisations from across Europe’s cultural and creative sectors wrote to European Commissioners Thierry Breton (Internal Market) and Paolo Gentiloni (Economy) regarding the EU’s flagship investment programme InvestEU. The programme is facing severe cuts which could have a dramatic impact on the ability of cultural and creative businesses to access much needed affordable debt and equity financing. With…
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Voir en plein écran Based on the information provided by Live DMA members, this map contains the basic material needed to have an overview of the current state of the live music sector in 16 European countries. You can find in this map information from the date of restrictions on public gatherings to the current…
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Since March 2020, most of the 2,600 live music venues and clubs represented by Live DMA and its members in 16 European countries are in survival mode. Due to government regulations, music venues and clubs had to cancel or reschedule all their events. Due to the current restrictions, apart from small concerts and non-musical events,…
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“It’s all about sharing and cooperation!”
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“We need organisations like Live DMA to support our activities. During COVID, it was important to have Live DMA meetings so that we could learn what was going on in the other countries, and that was very helpful when it came to the lobby work on the local level”
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“We have been celebrating the 10th anniversary of Live DMA, a network which was created in 2012 by venue networks from all over Europe. The purpose was to share knowledge and skills with each other, and to set up common projects, and I think we’ve succeeded in doing that!”
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“I learned to collect and process data with good quality, and also I learned the importance of data to start a dialogue with institutions. Good data gave ACCES a lot of recognition”
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ʻʼThanks to Live DMAʼs Survey, we showed our government that the more a venue is subsidized, the more money they generate. The Ministry of Culture had little knowledge of our sector. So to present these figures from different European countries was crucial in re-valorising our subsidies.”