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Student unions `integral' to music.

Music Week

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The music industry will lose no time in engaging with Gordon Brown's Government this week when Feargal Sharkey's Live Music Forum tells the new administration how the Licensing Act has impacted the business.

Sharkey's long-awaited report on how the controversial Act has affected the live music sector is launched on Wednesday at the BPI's Rock the Boat event.

The report, which may be the last work from the LMF, formed specifically in 2004 to monitor the live sector, will also recommend that the Government works with the National Union of Students to establish a university live music network.

The LMF says that the student union network, which helped launch the careers of bands like Pink Floyd and The Smiths and also many industry executives who worked as NUS ents officers, has deteriorated over the past two decades, leaving a massive gap in the live scene.

To help kick-start the university union revival, the LMF has brokered an agreement with UK PA manufacturer Carlsbro to provide equipment to student unions. The LMF is also talking to the NUS about forming a grass-roots live music network that ...

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