The International - Live Music Venue

The International - Live Music Venue The International will be Crewe's newest and largest live music and events space. Opening May 2023.

16/03/2023

Music Venue Trust Spring Budget Response Statement:

MVT presented to DCMS and Treasury details of the negative impacts that failure to extend the enhanced business energy relief scheme would have on Grassroots Music Venues from first April 2023. One Grassroots Music Venue is closing every week already in 2023. The budget was an opportunity to ensure that this number of closures did not explode from the first April when Grassroots Music Venues will be hit by excessive and unaffordable energy bills. The Chancellor has failed to respond to the evidence we submitted. There is no additional support for music venues and the inevitable result will be mass closures of venues.

We note that, as per the last 5 years of budgets, significant opportunities to support the Grassroots Music Venue sector have been overlooked. This network of venues across the country is a prime opportunity to improve productivity, enhance local jobs, and support struggling communities. We welcome the support for theatres, museums, art galleries and orchestras, but once again we note that all of the Chancellor's announcements on tax relief for these sectors exclude Grassroots Music Venues and artists. We also note that the opportunities to support research and development in this sector has been once again missed; the R and D tax reliefs announced are not relevant to the Grassroots Music Venue sector.

We remain keen to work with the Government to unlock the opportunity that the Grassroots Music Venue sector presents. We hope that in the near future a budget statement will be made that recognises and acknowledges the economic, cultural and community opportunity these venues present.

Regrettably, the failure to act on energy bills must inevitably mean that 2023 will be the worst year for closures since the creation of Music Venue Trust in 2014. In the absence of any action to this challenge by the Government we will once again be reaching out to the energy supply companies to try to avert closures. It is plainly in no one's interest to allow buildings that house Grassroots Music Venues to become abandoned as the cost of energy needed to open those spaces to the public and performers cannot be met by any venue operator.

https://www.musicvenuetrust.com/2023/03/music-venue-trust-spring-budget-response-statement/

***UPDATE***Unfortunately, it now appears our grand opening will be delayed until later in the year.This does mean we've...
08/02/2023

***UPDATE***

Unfortunately, it now appears our grand opening will be delayed until later in the year.

This does mean we've had to postpone the upcoming announcements we were due to make over the next week or so.

Our team have been working really hard since July 2022 on this project and we'll continue to do so until we get that confirmed opening date.

The ownership of the venue is very complex so there are numerous bodies we need to work with to make this project work for all parties.

Once we have any further information we'll let you all know.

Thanks

The International Team

There's a ton of work going on behind the scenes with our main room space.We can't wait to the point this is rammed full...
20/01/2023

There's a ton of work going on behind the scenes with our main room space.

We can't wait to the point this is rammed full of people.

Who would you like to see come and play in Crewe?

20/01/2023

The UK public says less than £40 is a fair price for a live music ticket. The headline says people are being ‘priced out of attending’

There are literally hundreds of brilliant, live affirming, incredible shows happening every single day at local grassroots music venues. The average price of admission is £10.90 a ticket, but there’s almost certainly one near you this week for less than a tenner. They are performed by fantastically talented musicians, just as good as any you’ll see on a huge stage. There won’t be flying pianos or cartwheeling robots, but these days there will be great sound and lighting, delivered by professional technicians. Bar prices are affordable, the staff are welcoming, and the audience in them wants you there as part of the community. And no, Harry Styles isn’t playing, but you know who is? Somebody who deserves an audience just as much, who has written as many songs, is just as passionate about the music they are making, who has something to perform for you that you might fall in love with.

This survey says an incredibly depressing number of people didn’t attend a live music show in 2022. About a fifth of people apparently didn’t go because they thought they couldn’t afford it. So there’s something seriously wrong there, because it’s literally the cheapest, easiest, most accessible cultural experience there is.

Let’s make sure every parent knows that. Let’s get every school teaching their pupils that. Let’s get out into our communities and make sure that every single person in them knows they have access to live music. Lets ensure our local and national press are reflecting that. Let’s see the incredible music from these fantastic spaces on our TV, talked about on our radio, part of the national discussion of who we are and what we do.

Let’s find the one third of the public who didn’t attend a show in 2022 and make sure they know what they are missing out on. 14% of people regularly attended a gig in 2022. Let’s double that. Let’s make 2023 the best year of live music ever.

Let’s never leave anybody in the UK believing that this headline is true ever again.

Read the YouGov Survey here: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/economy/articles-reports/2022/12/22/half-britons-have-been-priced-out-attending-live-m

We are The International.Crewe's newest and largest live music venue.Opening May 2023.
20/01/2023

We are The International.

Crewe's newest and largest live music venue.

Opening May 2023.

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The International, Apollo Buckingham Health Sciences Campus, Crewe Green Road
Crewe
CW15DU

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