Enter Shikari donate sales from arena tour to help support grassroots venues

Further to Music Venue Trust’s call for arenas to subsidise and support grassroots venues and talent, Enter Shikari have said they will give £1 from every ticket sold for their 2024 UK arena tour – which includes a date at London's Wembley Arena – to MVT’s Pipeline Investment Fund.

“Grassroots music venues in the UK are under existential threat”, says frontman Rou Reynolds. “Every time we lose another one we lose a vital part of our culture. Bigger venues that benefit from the productive pipeline that grassroots venues provide need to support these smaller venues, as do the artists that have come up through them,” he adds. “Enter Shikari stands with Music Venue Trust in their efforts to bring more solidity and community to our brilliant UK live music scene”.

One in five nightclubs have closed since the pandemic and Music Venue Trust says up to 30 per cent of UK music venues also face closure as costs spiral.

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£1 from every ticket is donated to @musicvenuetrust to distribute to U.K. Grassroots Venues. pic.twitter.com/7Xv1xTf7sZ

— ENTER SHIKARI (@ENTERSHIKARI) May 3, 2023

MVT CEO Mark Davyd adds: “Music Venue Trust believes that it is the responsibility of the whole music ecosystem – artists, agents, managers, promoters, arenas and stadiums – to ensure that new and developing artists have a place to play in their local community," noting that in order for the UK to continue to be "a major force for music around the world", it must help ensure that the money spent at major events comes back around to the grassroots venues where every artist begins their careers.

He concludes: “It comes as no surprise to us that Enter Shikari have become the first major arena headlining artist to strike out and make this happen; throughout the life of the charity, Rou, Chris, Rob and Rory have been right at the forefront of the campaign to protect, secure and improve the UK’s grassroots music venues”.