Partners
Partnering with Independent Venue Week gives you access to the country’s largest dedicated celebration of the authentic independent venue community in the UK & US.
IVW covers a full seven days across the whole country with additional media and online coverage extending before and well after the week itself. This national celebration with a local feel focuses solely on a positive narrative and runs longer than any greenfield music festival in one location. By supporting IVW, you are supporting the venues who, in turn, support and nurture artists and crew to ensure we have an evolving pipeline of talent.
In addition, we are ensuring communities across the country have a thriving, dynamic music and cultural scene so together, we can help create some of the most memorable nights out for music fans.
There are also opportunities to partner with our community year round. All partnerships are managed by our sister agency I Like The Sound Of That. Please contact sybil@ilikethesoundofthat.com for further details.
Lead Partners
BBC Radio 6
BBC Radio 6 Music brings a broad range of music and culture beyond the mainstream to music lovers with a curious spirit, combining the cutting-edge music of today with the iconic, ground-breaking sounds of the past 50 years. 6 Music has been supporting Independent Venue Week since it began in 2014. Over the years, Steve Lamacq has taken his weekday afternoon show (4pm-7pm) to independent venues across the UK in celebration of Independent Venue Week, visiting locations from Cardiff to Stowmarket, Brighton to Dunfermline and many more in between.
Beavertown Brewery
Beavertown Brewery is dedicated to crafting high quality, innovative beers like Neck Oil IPA, Gamma Ray APA and Lazer Crush Alcohol Free IPA that appeal to the thirsty masses. From brewing to branding, we believe in creativity at the heart of everything we do.
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Let’s Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences. We invest public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver this vision.
Partners
Creative Scotland
Creative Wales are a Welsh Government agency set up in 2020 to support the creative industries in Wales. We harness the power of our creative sectors, drive growth in our economy and help build a prosperous future for our country. The expert team connects people and businesses to foster new opportunities; provides knowledge and resources to upskill workforce and support trainees; and invests in ideas and people to help the creative economy flourish.
BBC Music Introducing
At BBC Music Introducing, our sole purpose is to push forward a new wave of unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar UK talent. Playing live, especially at the begging of an artist’s career is so important. There is no better place to that than at a local independent venue. They are at the core of the new music seen and so import in an artists journey. BBC Music Introducing local radio shows are big supporter of the independent venues in their scene. IVW weeks is always on the BBC Introducing calendar, spotlighting the work of amazing venues and music supports around the country.
Hardwick & Morris
Hardwick & Morris is a vibrant firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Managers specialising in music and entertainment based in Central London. We work with artists, entrepreneurs and boutique companies as well as larger companies and organisations, all of whom we have a strong personal relationship with. We have built our business by providing a high quality, efficient and very personable service resulting in a reputation for hard work, integrity and professionalism. With a good dose of humour and fun thrown in.
F-List
The F-List for Music is a not-for-profit organisation aimed at supporting UK female and gender expansive musicians in their careers. Primarily we give them profile via our incredible website directory (now nearly 5.5K listings), our active social media channels or our digital music playlists. The directory is used by promoters, labels, managers, commissioners, radio DJs, journalists, musicians and fans to discover and source incredible female talent.
Openstage
The Openstage mission is simple: resetting the industry in favour of artists and their fans. Openstage is the music business platform for artists and their teams to centralise fan data, develop an audience, genuinely understand the actual value of their fanbase, and nurture fans for lasting success. We work with leading management, promoters, agents, and record companies. In the past twelve months, Openstage has delivered successful campaigns for artists such as Lana Del Rey, Louis Tomlinson, Jamie Webster, Lewis Capaldi, and, most recently, the reunion of Oasis.
PPL
As the UK’s music licensing company for more than 130,000 performers and recording rightsholders, PPL licenses recorded music when it is played in public or broadcast on the radio or TV in the UK and then distribute the fees to the performers and recording rightsholders we represent. Through a network of international agreements with collective management organisations (CMOs) in other countries, PPL is also able to collect royalties for performers and recording rightsholders when their recorded music is played around the world.
