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Music Venues Trust Respond to Coldplay’s Donation to the U.K.’s Grassroots Scene: “This Money Will Achieve a Lot”

Coldplay have announced they'll be donating 10% of upcoming U.K. tour profits to the grassroots scene. The Music Venues Trust say it will be transformative.

A vintage flyer from one of their early gigs in 1998 was discreetly displayed at Camden music venue The Dublin Castle in London, and contained news of a run of shows that the band were set to announce for August 2025. But it featured a big statement that could throw a lifeline to the grassroots music scene: scrawled in pen at the bottom of the poster, it announced that 10% of proceeds were to go to “small venues and upcoming acts”. “I was disappointed with the Oasis thing, mainly because if you go back to the Commons select committee hearings in March, you can read the words of the representatives of the music industry saying to MPs that they know about the problem with grassroots venues and that they’re going to get it solved.

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