By Monk
Enter Shikari are once again proving they haven’t forgotten their (grass)roots by continuing to support efforts to keep hundreds of struggling venues in business.
The band have confirmed that £1 from every ticket sold for their just-announced November arena tour will be donated to the LIVE Trust, which supports grassroots music venues at risk of closure through much-needed rescue packages. Enter Shikari were the first band to introduce such a levy on their ticket sales.
The band said:
We will always support and fight for grassroots venues. They mean so much to us not just because we wouldn’t have made it to where we are now without them, but because they are the great bastions of community and creativity, without which, UK culture would decay dramatically. And we’d all be left drowning in the most mind-numbing corporate pop music and pointless, AI-produced drivel.
The Music Venue Trust, the charity which acts to protect, secure and improve grassroots venues across the ÜK and which administers the LIVE Trust, responded:
Grassroots venues are where scenes are born, communities gather, and artists like Enter Shikari begin. This tour is a powerful reminder that arenas don’t exist without them.
- Tickets for Enter Shikari’s November tour go on general sale this Friday (30 January).
