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Music set adrift from the continent and our island
The arts in this country have value simply because they are ours: BENN LUNN calls for a recalibration of how we view the music industry
Freelance professional musicians, conducted by director David Hill, perform a section of 'Mars' from Holst's 'The Planets' in Parliament Square, Westminster

ON FEBRUARY 12, the Guardian published an illuminating and soul-destroying article by Joseph Middleton. 

The director of Leeds Lieder festival highlights how the nature of the current Brexit agreement is implemented has created insane scenarios, including having to fork out £600 for a gig he had had in the diary for two years. 

The article goes on to describe how a lot of the chaos has been hidden away because so many cancellations were a result of Covid-19, and not because performers lost out on work due to bureaucracy. 

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