Our Resource Platform provides various articles, research, methodologies or tools on different themes relevant for the live music sector in Europe. The various content are classified in the following themes:
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LIVE DMA PUBLICATIONS
>> 2025
- Map of challenges: a visual tool to understand the situation of live music venues
- Research & testimonies: Live Music Challenges in European Cities
- The Survey – Data report: live music venues in Europe face rising costs amid pandemic recovery (French version here)
- Gender Equality in the Live Music Sector, litterature review by Grace Goodwin
>> 2024
>> 2023
- The Survey – Facts & Figures of European live music venues and clubs, data 2019-2020 (Spanish / French)
- Post covid-19 challenges in the live music scenes across Europe
>> 2021
- Key Numbers – Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on music venues and clubs in Europe
- Live DMA Network Inventory 2021
- Stay Alive – Evaluation of the effects of the pandemic on live music venues
- Paths of Cooperation: How the Live Music Sector in Europe Joins Forces
>> 2020
- The Survey – Facts & Figures of European live music venues and clubs, data 2017
- Key Numbers – COVID-19 impact on 2600 venues and clubs
>> 2019
ECONOMY
>> 2025
- European Music Export Exchange Resource Center
- A record inflation limiting the effects of the post-COVID-19 recovery: live music challenges in European cities
- Human resources: when fair pay is unfair for small and medium-sized live venues: live music challenges in European cities
- An increasingly difficult economic balance that directly impacts adventurous programming: live music challenges in European cities
>> 2023
- Unveiling Europe’s Live Music Scene: Market Dominance and Cultural Diversity
- Reset! Network Atlas of Independent Culture and Media
- Independent Voices Face High Ownership Concentration: Mapping the Cultural Landscape
>> 2023
- Livestreaming: opportunities and challenges for the live music sector
- European Festival Report 2022 – Yourope
>> 2022
>> 2021
>> 2020
- Analysis of Market Trends and Gaps in Funding Needs for the Music Sector – European Commission
- Fair Ticketing Systems in the Live DMA Network – Live DMA
- European Music Export Strategy – EMEE
- The Economic Impact of Music in Europe – Oxford Economics
>> 2019
>> 2018
SOCIAL INCLUSION
>> 2025
>> 2024
- Volunteers in Europe – Definitions per country
- All Areas Access | Guidelines for more accessible venues to D/deaf audiences
- Planning Guide for Accessible Conferences
- Yourope’s Diversity & Inclusion Toolset
>> 2023
>> 2022
>> 2021
>> 2020
- Volunteers in European Music Scenes – Live DMA
- Amateur Practices of Popular Music in France – FEDELIMA
- Security, Creativity, Tolerance and their Co-Existence: the New European Agenda on Freedom of Artistic Expression – Freemuse
>> 2019
- The Diversity Roadmap – PETZI et al.
- CONFRONT: How Popular Music Can Commemorate European Heritage – Live DMA
>> 2018
- Living Together: Fostering Cultural Pluralism Through the Arts – IKSV
- Voices of Culture: Social Inclusion
GENDER DIVERSITY & EQUALITY
>> 2025
>> 2024
- Not just posters in the bathroom – A report on sexualized violence in clubs and at festivals in Switzerland” by Helvetiarockt, translated by Live DMA
- Legal Definitions of gender-based violence in EU Member States
>> 2023
>> 2022
- Standards – Sexism Free Night
- EU-wide research on the prevalence of sexism and sexual violence in nightlife context – Sexism Free Night
- Prevent and respond to sexual violence in nightlife context (Training manuals for nightlife professionals, festival organisers and harm reduction professionals) – Sexism Free Night
- Gender is a Galaxy – Helvetiarockt’s awareness campaign on gender diversity in public toilets
- Gender & Power relations – SHIFT Culture
- Gender Equality On & Off the Stage – Pearle*
- Sexism Free Night – EU project
>> 2020
>> 2019
ECOLOGY
>> 2024
- Greenhouse report: Aligning national strategies on sustainability for the live music scenes
- Green Mobility: initiatives from the live music sector
>> 2023
- Carbon offsetting for music festivals: what’s up with that?
- Ecological Sustainability: the European Music Sector Takes Action! – Live DMA
>> 2022
>> 2021
>> 2020
MUSIC & THE CITY
>> 2025
- The never-ending gentrification process: live music challenges in European cities
- Changes in audience behavior and increased unpredictability that weaken small and medium-sized concert venues: live music challenges in European cities
>> 2023
>> 2021
- Local Networks: A Guide to Reimagining the Work of Cultural Centers – ENCC
- The Global Nighttime Recovery Plan – VibeLab
>> 2020
>> 2019
- How to Open and How to Run a Grassroots Music Venue – Music Venue Trust
- Transformations in Music Booking – Myrtille Picaud
- The Music Cities Manual – Sound Diplomacy
- Club Kataster: Prevent Conflicts Between Live Music Scenes, Local Authorities and Neighbours – Live DMA
- Understand the Relationship Between Gentrification and Small Music Venues – Live DMA
- Webinar: Agent of Change – Music Venue Trust
- Open Club Day: 2nd European Edition – Live DMA
EU FUNDING PROGRAMMES
EU POLICIES
>> 2025
>> 2022
>> 2021
>> 2020
- Webinar: EU Cultural Policy and Advocacy – European Music Council
- Feasibility Study for the Establishment of a European Music Observatory – European Commission
- Analysis of Market Trends and Gaps in Funding Needs for the Music Sector – European Commission
- European Music Export Strategy – EMEE
- Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 – Live DMA
>> 2019
>> 2018
NIGHTLIFE
>> 2024
>> 2022
- EU-wide research on the prevalence of sexism and sexual violence in nightlife context – Sexism Free Night
- Prevent and respond to sexual violence in nightlife context (Training manuals for nightlife professionals, festival organisers and harm reduction professionals) – Sexism Free Night
- Gender is a Galaxy – Helvetiarockt’s awareness campaign on gender diversity in public toilets
- Sexism Free Night – EU project
>> 2021
>> 2019
SOUND REGULATIONS
>> 2025
>> 2020
>> 2019
LSE PODCASTS
COVID-19 RESOURCE
On this page, you can find resource, best-practices, information and updates relevant for the live music sector on COVID-19.