The Ministry of Culture and the autonomous communities have agreed in Melilla to create a Sectoral Table for Live Music. The objective is to coordinate cultural policies, avoid duplication, and improve conditions in the sector, which has been plagued by precariousness and a lack of spaces for years.
A common database and technical regulations for concert venues 🎵
This sectoral table will promote a unified census of venues and festivals, technical requirements for sound and accessibility, and a data exchange system on capacities and licenses. The aim is to standardize safety and acoustic criteria, as well as share technological resources between regions. The development of a digital platform will allow programmers to consult the availability of spaces and equipment in real time, reducing logistical costs.
Now all that's left is for musicians to have a hot meal someday 🎸
All very nice: a table, coordination, a unified census. But the working musician is still wondering if this table will pay for their intermission sandwich or at least put wifi in the dressing room so they can upload their miseries to Instagram. While the autonomous communities meet, artists hope the next agreement includes dignified treatment and, by the way, that the sound technician doesn't have to take out a loan to buy a monitor.