No promoters means no shows. Promoters are people who put on one show for fun, several shows as a hobby or hundreds of shows as a profession. Please join us in calling on the UK Govt & Oliver Dowden to offer us the help we and others need to survive this crisis. #LetTheMusicPlay

#LetTheMusicPlay @aip_uk aiporg.com

The @greennote has had a great programme of Online live performances and wants to continue to provide top-quality entertainment! See their fundraiser here: bit.ly/31n9f4K

We are going to open this weekend from 12pm on Saturday at both of our Walthamstow sites. We're lucky to have big yards, so we'll be doing spread out outside seating only with disposable recyclable cups. Come and have a drink with us! 😬😬😬

Thank you for your messages about the Trades in recent weeks. We are going to be launching our crowdfunder at the end of the month and would really appreciate it if you could share, RT and make a donation if you can.

IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: Band on the Wall Manchester is not permanently closing. It is closed for a set period and will return in 2021. MVT is continuing work on plans to rescue The Deaf Institute GORILLA The Welly & The Polar Bear

I am looking for Black Tunisian artists (visual and digital artists) for a project. RTs appreciated 🙏

Three Hijabis walk into a bar to watch the Three Lions thrash Ukraine. What an incredible evening and an absolutely brilliant win by a magnificent England team! Well done, lads! A thread on the importance of an anti-racist, inclusive #England ⚽️ team & why #RepresentationMatters

You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.

Music Halls and Samantha Whates bring you a great lineup at The Sanctuary, London E17: 🎤 09.09 On The Corner Records Crew bday party w/Edrix Puzzle, 23.09 seamus fogarty music & 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤, 28.10 Piney Gir & paul mosley, 25.11 Mesadorm @sophie_j_music Tickets: musichalls.org

...and London on September 23rd w/ 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 for the great folks at Music Halls in Walthamstow as part of a new series of shows curated by the equally great Samantha Whates....tickets: musichalls.org

RIP Alan Hawkshaw. Writer of the themes to Grange Hill and Countdown and king of the KPM All Stars. Once interviewed him about his work with Serge Gainsbourg and asked what he’d been up to lately. “Just finished an album with Des O’Connor,” he said, “and been sampled by 50 Cent.”

I don't take royalties for recording bands. This is normal ethical behavior in every other industry and should not be exceptional or notable in music. That it comes up every time we discuss how musicians get paid ought to be embarrassing, but for the nth time...

Ever feel resistance is futile but even so, another horizon beckons, weak yet transgressive & transformative? It's at hand - & I've written a book about it, due out in August. @AnthonyGReddie describes it as 'a brilliant text that seeks to help us interpret the world differently'

This is Appleby Horse Fair not the hate inciting pictures you seeing in news this morning.. no other festival in the 🌎 like it… average of 30000 people 6 arrests .. no rubbish left, don’t believe all u read in right wing racist media

The whole ‘Roma don’t get educated, they hate school. They never graduate even secondary school, they’re barely literate and just want to steal and beg’ discourse is strong on Twitter today. 🙄 Hi! I’m Maddy. I’m Roma, and I have a PhD. And there’s plenty of us.

Hi all, Human EP and official video will be available this Friday 22 July. I am really looking forward to this and very happy to share a little teaser of the video with you today. Hope you enjoy this and don't forget to Pre-Save the EP now: linktr.ee/josephineoniya…

My 4-year-old son starts reception in September. Today I had the 'chat' with him and had to explain that children may single him out as he is a Traveller. I have told him about how racism is to be expected and what words he may hear. I explained how best to deal with certain

Many artists already do this (if you know any, tag them in a comment); we aren’t the first. But it should be the default option for physical. THANK YOU to everybody who has bought an #ecoMix vinyl: you are voting not just for our music but for our conservation values. THANK YOU