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Meraki The Zanzibar In order to help find the answers to these questions, we put together an event with our friends at Constellations in May 2017, which looked to ask you – Liverpool’s music community – what you think, gauge your experiences and harness your ideas about how we can collectively shape Liverpool’s music future. The event was designed to challenge you to come together and develop a shared, collective vision of a music future for our city. Because you all live and breathe it every day. Let’s be honest, for people outside of the inner workings of Liverpool’s music community we can seem somewhat impenetrable; a web of complex entangled relationships, a mesh of freelancers and small organisations, a tension between commerce and creativity, a hotchpotch of vested interests, a fallback position of ‘us versus them’. Historically, viewing us lot in such a way would not have been without base; entrenched divisions and internal politics have in the past stifled collaboration and collective action. But we believed things could be different and that we could come together for the common good. And we believe we have been proved right. Within this month’s Bido Lito! you will find a copy of Liverpool, Music City? Challenges, Reflections and Solutions from the Liverpool Music Community, the final project report produced in partnership between ourselves and LJMU (check out liverpoolmusiccity.co.uk if someone’s nicked yours). The report is the result of painstaking analysis of data captured at our May event and associated online surveys. The report is essentially a listening exercise, an opportunity for the music community to have its voice heard. Coming through loud and clear are issues surrounding property, the closure of venues and wider challenges of the built environment – such as noise complaints and developer power. There is the need for new strategies that bring the city’s music heritage offer much closer to the city’s vibrant year-round live music culture. There is a need to open up access to Liverpool’s music culture – both in terms of audiences and artists – to people of all backgrounds. The ongoing financial challenges to artists are stark and consistent. The starting embers of a music industry in the city are there, but this urgently needs support. There is a consistent, loud and vocal cry for structured strategic thinking around music policy with the city’s music sector at its heart. This project is not intended to provide a masterplan or a road map for the future. It is purely intended to demonstrate the music sector’s ability to galvanise, our appetite for a collective solution and a desire to work in dynamic partnership with the city to shape a new music future for Liverpool. Following our Liverpool, Music City? event on 4th May 2017 – which has provided the data for this project – Liverpool City Council (through Culture Liverpool) commissioned BOP Consulting to produce a report on the music sector of the city. The report seeks to “outline the importance of the sector to the city, provide an analysis of how the sector currently operates and suggest ways of enabling it to reach its potential to meet City and City Region priorities” (Liverpool City Council). We warmly welcome this move from the city and await the report’s findings and suggestions – due in the coming weeks – with anticipation. Watching You’ll Never Walk Alone today, you’re left with a sense of cruel irony; the musicians, renegades and heroes that play centre stage had each other, a vibrant, collective community of support, but one which was left alone. Kept well away from the corridors of power and influence. Completely ignored and absent from civic thinking. Cut adrift. The community was left alone to its own devices, left to find its own way, left to navigate the backwaters of the music industry. Today, the experience can be different. Working with our universities and the city, we can craft a new music future – once we have a seat at the table. Together, we can shape a city that rightly has music embedded at its heart. ! Words: Craig G Pennington Photography: Keith Ainsworth / arkimages.co.uk liverpoolmusiccity.co.uk 14
WHAT’S ON Liverpool Philharmonic December – March Sunday 3 December 8pm LAUGHTERHOUSE – Sunday 3 December 8pm Music Room MOULETTES – Saturday 9 December 7.30pm KATE RUSBY AT CHRISTMAS – Sunday 24 December 11am & 2pm Film IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – Friday 26 January 8pm DEAR ESTHER – LIVE – Sunday 18 March 7.30pm Acoustic Tour 2018 LEVELLERS Box Office liverpoolphil.com 0151 709 3789 – LiverpoolPhilharmonic @Liverpoolphil Image Kate Rusby
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