The Musician (Summer 2020)
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The Musician Journal of the Musicians’ Union Summer 2020 theMU.org Across The Great Divide Perform, teach, record, support: how musicians have brought people together in a time of social distancing Live Streaming Tim Burgess Mental Health How musicians can make the The Charlatans singer on his solo Advice and support for musicians most of online performances work and Twitter Listening Parties during these uncertain times contacts Union HQ Regional Offices General Secretary Head of Communications London Horace Trubridge & Government Relations Regional Organiser: Jamie Pullman Isabelle Gutierrez 33 Palfrey Place, London SW8 1PE Deputy General Secretary t 020 7840 5504 Naomi Pohl In-House Solicitor e [email protected] Dawn Rodger Assistant General Secretary East & South East England Phil Kear PR & Marketing Official Regional Organiser: Paul Burrows Keith Ames 1a Fentiman Road, National Organiser London SW8 1LD Jo Laverty (Orchestras) Recording & Broadcasting Official t 020 7840 5537 Michael Sweeney e [email protected] National Organiser Diane Widdison (Education & Training) Licensing & Distribution Official Midlands Annie Turner Regional Organiser: Stephen Brown National Organiser 2 Sovereign Court, Geoff Ellerby (Recording & Broadcasting) Sessions Official Graham Street, Sam Jordan Birmingham B1 3JR National Organiser t 0121 236 4028 Dave Webster (Live Performance) Live & Music Writers’ Official e [email protected] Kelly Wood Wales & South West England Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Official Regional Organiser: Andy Warnock John Shortell Transport House, 1 Cathedral Rd, Cardiff CF11 9SD Orchestras Official t 029 2045 6585 Morris Stemp e [email protected] Campaigns & Social Media Official North of England Maddy Radcliff Regional Organiser: Matt Wanstall 61 Bloom Street, Manchester M1 3LY Union HQ t 0161 236 1764 60–62 Clapham Road e [email protected] London sw9 0jj Scotland & Northern Ireland t 020 7582 5566 Regional Organiser: Caroline Sewell f 020 7582 9805 2 Woodside Place, e [email protected] Glasgow G3 7QF t 0141 341 2960 w theMU.org e [email protected] @WeAreTheMU REPORT Music Will Survive How your Union is doing everything in its power to support its members at this challenging time, and plan for music’s recovery in the future… Launching the MU Coronavirus Hardship recording sessions up and running again. Fund, setting up the Crowdfunder, securing The overriding consideration in all of these a donation of £100,000 from PPL and other discussions is the safety and welfare of our donations from industry businesses to members, and this will remain our number bolster the fund, and providing the members one concern. That said, we know that you with up-to-the-minute advice, guidance and are all desperate to be able to start work support on a regular and timely basis have again even if we all have to reluctantly accept all been very well received. that the way we will be working for the foreseeable future will be very different from The Executive Committee’s decision to the way we worked before the pandemic. offer a three month subscriptions holiday to those in dire need is just the latest in Committed to helping a basket of measures that we have Finally, the Chair of the Executive Committee, introduced to try and help you get through Dave Lee, wrote recently in an email to this calamitous situation. a colleague that music will survive. He’s Reaching out When the Chancellor made his “The overriding 3 announcement on support for the self- © Joanna Dudderidge Joanna © employed and mentioned musicians consideration in all these Horace Trubridge, before any other group of workers we General Secretary knew our messages had got through. discussions is the safety That said, we can’t afford to take our foot off the gas on the lobbying front as we of our members” I recently gave an interview on BBC Radio are only too aware that there are many 5 Live where I said that the current crisis of you out there who currently don’t right of course, but we need to do all we is the worst our profession has had to qualify for either the furloughing scheme can to make sure that all the fantastic endure since the 1920s when they launched or the Self-Employed Income Support musicians who create the music can stay the talkies and laid off all the cinema Scheme (SEISS). Every day we are reaching in the profession too. orchestras. Looking back I have to say out to politicians and civil servants with that the Union got it wrong in the way it a very clear message that more needs to Your Union is committed to helping you reacted then – launching a campaign to be done for musicians, and we are using through these dark days, and we will do argue that the talkies were just a fad, a all of our channels of influence to get our everything in our power to make sure that flash in the pan, and audiences would messages across. you weather this tsunami and resume your soon return to silent movies with orchestra careers when it is safe to do so. accompaniment – but this time round, At the same time, we are in regular meetings judging from all the messages of thanks with other industry bodies to try and get Very best wishes we have received, we have got it right. an idea of what recovery might look like. Horace Trubridge We are discussing the idea of pop-up gigs, live broadcasts from venues and studios, outdoor concerts and how we can get studio TO HEAR MORE FROM HORACE, VISIT THEMU.ORG The Musician • Summer 2020 Contents Summer 2020 4 16 “The MU is my trade union and I’m very thankful for it” Tim Burgess The Musician • Summer 2020 Diane Clarke is among the musicians talking about life in lockdown, from page 12 Frontline Feature 6 MU lobbies parliament 30 Examining photographic over financial support usage rights and ownership for members 7 Industry organisations Advice unite for musicians 42 A useful guide to successfully live streaming your music Reports 46 Professional advice on looking 3 MU General Secretary after your voice as a singer 10 Deputy General Secretary 12 How life under lockdown has Your Voice Tyler Andrew © impacted on UK musicians 8 Interacting with MU members Reviews 20 Assessing the post-Covid and supporters on Twitter 49 Albums, EPs and downloads future for music venues 24 Assistant General Secretary Profile Union Notices 25 Tools Of The Trade 16 The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess 2 Key MU contacts 26 How to make the most talks solo work, positivity and 52 Statutory MU notices of online session work his Twitter Listening Parties 53 Member benefits 34 Looking after your mental 38 The Wandering Hearts: a UK health during the outbreak band making waves in the US 5 MU Contributors Andrew Katie Henry Neil Stewart Nicholls Yates Churchman Andrew writes Katie is a Henry is a Neil is an for The Times, The freelance journalist freelance writer from experienced journalist Guardian, Classical and editor whose Gloucestershire who in broadcasting and Music and BBC Music features and reviews has written for titles print. A former BBC Magazine, among have appeared in as diverse as Classic national newsroom others. He is also titles such as Mojo, Rock, Total Guitar, assistant editor, he Director of Southwark The Guardian NME and Record now writes on music Voices. p34 and Kerrang! p20 & 38 Collector. p42 & 46 and the media. p12 Roy Will Daniel Tracey Delaney Simpson Dylan Wray Kelly Roy has Will has Dan is a writer A singer- written for Metal contributed to a range based in Sheffield. He songwriter, one half of Hammer, Classic Rock of music magazines, writes about music pop-jazz duo Tracey and Melody Maker, and including Total Guitar, and culture for The & Jason (with Jason is the lead singer and Guitarist and Mixmag. Guardian, Uncut, Sidwell), and an MU drummer with the Will has also published Pitchfork, Loud & member. Tracey has two-piece punk rock the book Freedom Quiet, Vice and The written for books on band Hacksaw. p25 Through Football. p26 Independent. p16 pop, jazz and rock. p30 2008 Shutterstock Shutterstock 2008 © Photo: The Musician • Summer 2020 CORONAVIRUS HARDSHIP FUND To find out if you’re eligible to apply for a ! £200 support grant from the MU, go to musiciansunion.org.uk/HardshipFund Summer 2020 frontlineThe MU in action, working on behalf of professional musicians. MU Lobbying MU Officials have been Reports and MU lobbying ministers and MPs to provide further Survey Results assistance for musicians The COVID-19 crisis has presented unparalleled challenges for musicians, and the Union has been at the forefront of the fight to ensure that our members are able to 6 survive at this incredibly difficult time. Setting up an Impact Survey from the start of the crisis gave us important and solid statistics to take to Government. We wrote to Ministers, placed parliamentary questions and had online meetings with Ministers, Shadow Ministers and MPs to argue for financial support for our members. This bore fruit when the Chancellor, Rishi © Nuwan / Getty Images Sunak, announced the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and mentioned musicians first in his speech. Survey headlines The full survey results can be viewed here: • 1,459 musicians responded to the survey. musiciansunion.typeform.com/report/ It did, however, quickly become clear that a DIhT3i/3UvkLZQ0rPuIIebb large proportion of MU members would not • 38% of respondents said they do not qualify qualify for this scheme. Despite the for the Government’s assistance schemes Call for financial assistance Chancellor’s claim that SEISS would cover for employed or self-employed workers. The Union called for the Government to 95% of the self-employed and that those not address those musicians who did not qualify eligible would be the richer self-employed, • Even of those who said that they do qualify for Government assistance by providing: our second Impact Survey made it clear that for SEISS, 26% said that they would struggle this was not the case.