Home Immigration Brexit. EU and US bands skipping the UK due to red tape and carnets.

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  1. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport are being economical with the truth.
    Yes, 24 EU countries have visa free access for artistes, but they are individual country agreements. You cannot travel from one country to another.
    It is possible to tour the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany & France but would have to return to the UK between each country.

  2. Belgium is an international renounced festival organizer, after 2 years of on and off lock-downs, Travel restrictions and Covid hassle, we’ve been having loads of festivals since april, there have been the 3 weekends of Tomorrowland and Rock Werchter, Graspop, Pukkelpop, Gent Jazz, TW Classic, Suikerrock, and lots more. Festival saison has been so crowded I think there was not one weekend without one. There has been lots of activity outside of the UK to play. Sadly for the UK this means more choice for European organizers.

  3. The music event organisers in the EU are going for the maximum this year after 2 years without festivals because of Covid. That means more events with more stages, more hours, more days and of course more bands are needed. For Belgium alone I don't think there is a week in July or August without (at least) one event. The UK will be missing out on this "boom" of events.

  4. Sounds like the best solution is to eliminate the Tory party and all their financiers and propagandists right the eff now, then put sensible people in government who will immediately strike a deal with the EU to restore freedom of movement and make it so you don't need a separate carnet.

  5. I would´nt worry too much . The way things are going in the UK at the moment . You definately are due to get a support concert/festival very soon. "I Bless the brains down in Westminster!" or perhaps Live Aid 2.5 .

  6. Your case would be even better if you included statistics. E.g. a graph of how many international bands coming to the UK from 2000-2022 if that showed a tail off graphically then that’s more concrete. A picture is a thousand words.

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