{"id":53500,"date":"2021-05-21T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=53500"},"modified":"2021-05-21T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T19:30:18","slug":"video-cardiff-musicians-lockdown-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2021\/05\/21\/video-cardiff-musicians-lockdown-story\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Cardiff musician&#8217;s lockdown story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"Cardiff musician&#039;s lockdown story\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlIYS7kY5xs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Cardiff musician&#039;s lockdown story\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlIYS7kY5xs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Many self-employed musicians in Cardiff have financially struggled during the Covid year<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>MUSICIANS who have been financially hit by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic say they \u201ccan\u2019t wait for things to go back to normal\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-employed singer\/songwriter Mike James said that when the pandemic came, \u201ceverything fell apart&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr James, 39, said: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t play live, we couldn\u2019t rehearse, we couldn\u2019t get together to do any live music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure how much the government really appreciate the arts and musicians.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Musicians\u2019 Union, a trade union representing musicians working in the UK across all sectors of the music industry, 47% of their members have been forced to look for work outside the music business, while 36% do not have any work at all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Minister Mark Drakeford has said live music venues will not reopen until July at the earliest, despite the return of cinemas and other indoor hospitality on May 17.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many self-employed musicians in Cardiff have financially struggled during the Covid year MUSICIANS who have been financially hit by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic say they \u201ccan\u2019t wait for things to go back to normal\u201d.\u00a0 Self-employed singer\/songwriter Mike James said that when the pandemic came, \u201ceverything fell apart&#8221;.&nbsp; Mr James, 39, said: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t play live, we couldn\u2019t rehearse, we couldn\u2019t get together to do any live music.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m not sure how much the government really appreciate the arts and musicians.\u201d&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":53502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,42,3,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6737],"class_list":["post-53500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grangetown","category-music","category-news","category-outabout"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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