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'Cultural erasure': The 1975's Matty Healy backs small venues
August 05, 2025
|Sunderland Echo
The 1975 singer Matty Healy has warned of "cultural erasure" as he threw his support behind a new festival which aims to back small music venues.
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The Seed Sounds Weekender, which will take place September 26-28, will see more than 2,000 gigs take place in more than 1,000 venues in an attempt to unite small venues.
Speaking of the event, Healy said: "The political neglect behind this crisis, steadily hollowing out arts funding and cultural infrastructure is a class war by omission.
"Councils have slashed arts budgets by 20% to 30% over the last decade.
Without government-led reforms - like a mandatory stadium-and-arena ticket levy, VAT relief, business rates reform, and real investment in venue survival - this ecosystem collapses.
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