{"id":2014778,"date":"2026-06-27T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2014778"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:55:31","slug":"missing-glastonbury-theres-a-festival-on-your-doorstep-thats-saving-grassroots-venues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2014778","title":{"rendered":"Missing Glastonbury? There\u2019s a festival on your doorstep that\u2019s saving grassroots venues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rizzle_carpets_2000.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><i class=\"tdb-bread-sep td-icon-right\"><\/i><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Missing Glastonbury? There\u2019s a festival on your doorstep that\u2019s saving grassroots venues<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Everywhere At Once festival brings huge names and rising talent to hundreds of venues across the UK this weekend. Artists and venue bosses tell us why you should get involved, and how without these gig spaces we wouldn&#8217;t have Glasto acts or Oasis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Andrew Trendell<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-27T10:55:31+01:00\">27th June 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .\/block --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rizzle_carpets_2000-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"Rizzle Kicks at Glastonbury 2025 and Inspiral Carpets live at AMP in Stockport Credit: Harry Durrant\/Ki Price\/Getty Images\" title=\"Rizzle Kicks and Inspiral Carpets\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Rizzle Kicks at Glastonbury 2025 and Inspiral Carpets live at AMP in Stockport Credit: Harry Durrant\/Ki Price\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>This weekend sees the launch of the inaugural Everywhere At Once festival \u2013 with huge names and rising stars taking to hundreds of stages in grassroots venues across the UK in a bid to entertain the masses while we sit out Glastonbury. Rizzle Kicks and Inspiral Carpets are among the artists taking part, explaining to <em>NME<\/em> why this event matters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: The ticket levy that could save grassroots venues and artists: what happens next?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands would have flocked to Worthy Farm this weekend, however with the festival taking its traditional fallow year to allow the land to recover, an opportunity arose for the Music Venue Trust and the many essential gig spaces they represent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cBefore we realised it was a Glastonbury fallow year, there was a discussion within the team, Save Our Scene and promoters where we realised this was a turnaround year for the sector,\u201d MVT CEO Mark Davyd told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cMoney will start to come in from the grassroots levy, things will start to change for the better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He continued: <span>\u201cThen there was a quick piece of maths that said if you open up all of the grassroots music venues in the UK at the same time, the capacity of those clubs if full would be 252,000. That\u2019s exactly the size of Glastonbury.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the <span>National Lottery also celebrating having reached the milestone of investing over \u00a31billion into music, all the bodies came together and called upon artists including Becky Hill, Fatboy Slim and Tinie Tempah to pull off \u201ca<\/span><span> maniac\u2019s dream\u201d of a festival, as Davyd put it, to send out the message: \u201cThese venues are<\/span><span>\u00a0still here and still putting on great shows\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3953635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3953635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3953635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rizzle_kicks_everywhere_1.jpg\" alt=\"Harley Sylvester and Jordan Stephens of Rizzle Kicks perform at The Great Escape Festival 2025 in Brighton (Photo by Joseph Okpako\/WireImage)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3953635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harley Sylvester and Jordan Stephens of Rizzle Kicks perform at The Great Escape Festival 2025 in Brighton (Photo by Joseph Okpako\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This time last year, Rizzle Kicks were proving themselves to be a surprise highlight of Glastonbury 2025.\u00a0\u201cIt was fucking insane,\u201d recalled Harley Alexander-Sule. \u201cI don\u2019t know if they told people we were giving out free money at 2pm on The Other Stage but it felt like everyone in the festival came down.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It marked a pivotal moment for the British rap duo\u2019s return, having first split in 2016 before making a celebrated comeback in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter we took our hiatus, a lot of shit stuff happened,\u201d Alexander-Sule told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that us leaving made the world shit, but Brexit happened, Trump happened, COVID happened, the cost of living went up in a big way. Everyone\u2019s just been a bit beaten up by the world, then we came back \u2013 carefree and not giving a shit. I think people latched on to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but over the last decade the UK has lost over 300 of its treasured grassroots music venues \u2013 the places where Rizzle Kicks learned the ropes to prepare them for playing to massive crowds at Glasto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in my day, you\u2019d proper cut your teeth in all those venues,\u201d said Alexander-Sule. \u201cWe were between Brighton and London, so before we got signed we\u2019d played 20 venues in Brighton. Brighton\u2019s small, so I\u2019d be very interested to know how many of those still exist. The one we\u2019re playing next \u2013 Patterns \u2013 we played there a lot. It used to be called Audio and it was one of the first shows we ever did.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThat was the venue I went to see loads of my friends play at. It wasn\u2019t a big venue, but for us as young, up and coming artists, it was a mini bucket list thing to play there or Green Door Store. If you did that at grassroots level it was like, \u2018I\u2019ve done it, I\u2019ve completed Brighton!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rizzle Kicks will be returning to Patterns for the Everywhere At Once festival, having not played there in 15 years but excited that \u201cit\u2019s so cool that it\u2019s still knocking about\u201d. So much of the band\u2019s history is embedded in Brighton, that they\u2019re predicting it\u2019ll be \u201cmore than a show,\u201d adding: \u201cyou can feel the love there because we\u2019re all so in it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3953639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3953639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3953639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rizzle_kicks_brighton.jpg\" alt=\"Harley Alexander-Sule of Rizzle Kicks performs at Shakedown Festival 2013 in Brighton (Photo by Ollie Millington\/Redferns via Getty Images)\" width=\"1331\" height=\"2000\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3953639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harley Alexander-Sule of Rizzle Kicks performs at Shakedown Festival 2013 in Brighton (Photo by Ollie Millington\/Redferns via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beyond getting back to where it all began, the duo said they needed to get involved as \u201cany light that can be shone on grassroots venues is incredible\u201d \u2013 especially now that opportunities are disappearing for new generations of artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with blowing up on TikTok, but I\u2019d be curious to see how these artists go on to cope with performing to audiences that aren\u2019t their own crowds,\u201d said Alexander-Sule. \u201cThat\u2019s how you build confidence as an artist: in doing these grassroots venues. My generation of artists may have been the last to make a name for themselves based on their live performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember in the 2000s, people would say, \u2018Have you heard of these guys? I saw them here\u2019. It was organic and people were seeing music at venues and watching support acts. A&amp;R scouts would be at those venues every night. Now they\u2019re called A&amp; analysts and they just sit on TikTok every night looking at numbers. You don\u2019t get the same authenticity. You can mask a lot on social media and present yourself in a certain way. When you\u2019re going to these live shows, there\u2019s nowhere to hide and people are seeing your authentic self all the time, and you learn things all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapper added that this shouldn\u2019t be chalked up to nostalgia or sentimentality, but simple practicality for future artists to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see most of our money come from [playing] live, and I don\u2019t think that would be the case if we didn\u2019t have the opportunity to really hone our craft,\u201d Alexander-Sule added. \u201cPlaying live is the biggest thing for us, but if we didn\u2019t put all that time and attention in, we wouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3953642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3953642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3953642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/INSPIRAL_CARPETS_LIVE.jpg\" alt=\"Kev Clark, Graham Lambert, Oscar Boon, Stephen Holt and Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets at The Barrowland Ballroom, 2024 (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti\/Redferns)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3953642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kev Clark, Graham Lambert, Oscar Boon, Stephen Holt and Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets at The Barrowland Ballroom, 2024 (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another band who cut their teeth on the smaller stages before going on to make history are Madchester legends Inspiral Carpets. They\u2019ll be playing three shows in <span>Chester, Shrewsbury and Stoke across the weekend for Everywhere At Once, simply because \u201cw<\/span><span>e\u2019re big fans of keeping the live music scene alive,\u201d said keyboarist Clint Boon, \u201cand that includes grassroots venues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAny band of our generation, whether it\u2019s the other Manchester bands, or the bands that followed likes Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines D.C., Wunderhorse \u2013 we need those small venues that only hold 150-300 people. It\u2019s impossible otherwise to go straight from being a garage band to then headlining Manchester Apollo. The first step is getting into those smaller local venues like The Boardwalk, The Roadhouse, The Night &amp; Day. They\u2019re an essential part of the journey of any successful band. It\u2019s crucial we keep these venues as part of our culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The plot thickens, as not only did Boon figure out how to become a rockstar in grassroots venues, but in the late \u201980s the band famously also hired a then unknown lad by the name of Noel Gallagher as a roadie and technician to tour the circuit with them in his pre-Oasis days.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019d even made a record when Noel joined us,\u201d Boon recalled. \u201cWe might have made our first single when our first singer left and Noel auditioned to replace him. He didn\u2019t get the job, but we took him on as a roadie. We were very much in that world of travelling up and down the UK in a transit van with band members sat in the back on the amplifiers. Noel saw first hand what bands need to do to get on that ladder to success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cStill to this day, he gives the Inspirals a lot of credit for taking him on that journey and showing him a lot about the industry and how to operate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3953644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3953644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3953644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/OASIS_LIVE_WATER_RATS.jpg\" alt=\"Oasis live at The Water Rats in London in their early days, 1994. Credit: Ian Dickson\/Redferns\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3953644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oasis live at The Water Rats in London in their early days, 1994. Credit: Ian Dickson\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Even then, Oasis still still put the the hours in by touring up and down the grassroots circuit in the back of a van.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAny band credited with organised success has a much longer backstory behind it,\u201d Boon told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cFor Noel\u2019s first year in Oasis, he was still setting our equipment up and learning. They had a good three or four years before their first big taste of success.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From Oasis\u2019 first UK headline tour in 1994, only six of the 15 remain open today. Boon admitted that w<span>ithout these spaces of this size, we simply wouldn\u2019t have Inspiral Carpets or Oasis, noting that \u201cit<\/span><span>\u00a0would be impossible to get to where bands like us are without these venues.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Looking ahead to the weekend, Boon shared that he had spent a lot time in Stoke Sugarmill as a DJ and as a musician, and still gets excited at the idea of going back into these places. \u201c<\/span><span>It\u2019s what we\u2019re all about,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a small stage, a big stage, an arena or a stadium \u2013 it\u2019s what we do. We get up and we play. I\u2019ll never tire of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With a new album ready to go and coming in January, Boon said that Inspiral Carpets would be airing some fresh material at the festival, but ultimately fans should expect \u201ct<\/span><span>he hits and the crowd favourites.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs a band, we\u2019re performing better than ever. Something magical has happened since we reformed back in 2023,\u201d he added. \u201cIt feels like everything has gone up a notch. That joy we\u2019ve got now is quite an infectious thing for people to see. Our happiness and appreciation for where we\u2019re at is what resonates with people, but we can never forget where we came from.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DY1jFtxMV2e\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Voodoo Daddy\u2019s Showroom in Norwich will be hosting gigs across the weekend, including one of three intimate shows from Tinie Tempah. Live events manager Ben Street told <em>NME<\/em> how it would \u201cadd <\/span><span>some extra focus and audience excitement\u201d on a weekend that would otherwise have been lost to Glasto.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The venue u<span>sed to be a strip club before becoming a venue under another name and then a hub for the local music community before attracting touring acts. Before long, they were putting on shows like Wunderhorse supporting Sorry and early gigs by the likes of Keo, CMAT and Olivia Dean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is a brilliant time to do this festival, because there\u2019s been such a focus on the rate at which venues are disappearing and the government not making it that easy for us,\u201d said Street. \u201cThere are lot of people that would choose to go to their local venue over a big arena show. That really pushes that hope. We have a really devout community that would rather come to Voodoos to see something new or local than see Oasis with 30,000 other people. These venues are still the beating heart of a lot of communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Street said that the network of venues in UK had \u201c<span>reached catastrophe point,\u201d but were optimistic that \u201cnow things are happening.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the weekend, Street had a simple message for music fans:\u00a0<span>\u201cCome to Voodoo Daddys, but there will be amazing gigs happening at spots all across the country. If you\u2019re looking for something to fill that Glastonbury gap but you want to speak to the band after, this is the chance to see bands up close that wouldn\u2019t normally be playing venues to about 200-300 people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the opportunity to see something special. We\u2019re a dive bar and a pizza joint, so we\u2019re the archetype of a venue like this.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Everywhere At Once comes at a time when the UK is reeling from \u201cthe complete collapse of touring\u201d with only 12 locations left on the primary or secondary circuit for artists where it used to be 28 back in 1994. After decades of decline and the spiralling cost of living and touring, thousands of fans and communities are now without nearby access to live music and countless opportunities for artists are lost. It was recently revealed that over half of UK grassroots venues made no profit in 2025, with 6,000 jobs gone.<\/p>\n<p>MVT CEO Mark Davyd said he hoped this weekend would be an opportunity for fans to rediscover their local venues, and that he was grateful for artists from Tom A. Smith to The Divine Comedy for getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put a call out thinking, \u2018Who could we get to go back to a venue we and they really believe in?\u2019 We were trying to shake things up a bit,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of people will know the story of The Lathums, The Cause, The K\u2019s, but beyond that Becky Hill has a really close association with The Marr\u2019s Bar in Worcester, we wanted to tell the story of where Tinie Tempha has played, and it got very deep and a lot of big things popped up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scale and scope of it is quite difficult to get your head around. These venues really matter to artists and people have been working really hard to pull off something really special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said that away from the intimate underplays of bigger artists, fans should also \u201cget out and see something new and give a new artist a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYy_6bxsr2F\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHuge input has gone into over 400 venues creating over 1,000 events with around 2,500 artists,\u201d Davyd added. \u201cWhat it now needs is for the grassroots audience to go out. This is all for them and about celebrating the spaces that are still here after the last 12 years of struggle. Our big message is go to the website, put your postcode in and you can see everything going on around you. Just go celebrate how fantastic it is that these venues are out there. It\u2019s been really hard, but there\u2019s still brilliant stuff happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019 just about every type of music along with comedy and spoken word, so much from every genre.\u00a0If you can find me someone who can\u2019t find something they don\u2019t like, then I\u2019m going to say they don\u2019t like music! This is a weekend for music fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Everywhere At Once runs across the UK until Sunday 28 June. Visit here for events and all information.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_tags tdi_87 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Related Topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Inspiral Carpets<\/li>\n<li>Oasis<\/li>\n<li>Rizzle Kicks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_wrap vc_raw_html tdi_89 \">\n<div class=\"td-fix-index\">\n<h3>You May Also Like<\/h3>\n<div id=\"taboola-below-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_91  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span4 td-is-sticky\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-sidebar  tdi_92 td_block_template_2\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-sidebar-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap td_flex_block_1 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Rizzle Kicks and Inspiral Carpets are among the artists taking part, explaining to <em>NME<\/em> why this event matters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: The ticket levy that could save grassroots venues and artists: what happens next?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands would have flocked to Worthy Farm this weekend, however with the festival taking its traditional fallow year to allow the land to recover, an opportunity arose for the Music Venue Trust and the many essential gig spaces they represent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cBefore we realised it was a Glastonbury fallow year, there was a discussion within the team, Save Our Scene and promoters where we realised this was a turnaround year for the sector,\u201d MVT CEO Mark Davyd told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cMoney will start to come in from the grassroots levy, things will start to change for the better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He continued: <span>\u201cThen there was a quick piece of maths that said if you open up all of the grassroots music venues in the UK at the same time, the capacity of those clubs if full would be 252,000. That\u2019s exactly the size of Glastonbury.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the <span>National Lottery also celebrating having reached the milestone of investing over \u00a31billion into music, all the bodies came together and called upon artists including Becky Hill, Fatboy Slim and Tinie Tempah to pull off \u201ca<\/span><span> maniac\u2019s dream\u201d of a festival, as Davyd put it, to send out the message: \u201cThese venues are<\/span><span>\u00a0still here and still putting on great shows\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3953635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3953635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3953635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rizzle_kicks_everywhere_1.jpg\" alt=\"Harley Sylvester and Jordan Stephens of Rizzle Kicks perform at The Great Escape Festival 2025 in Brighton (Photo by Joseph Okpako\/WireImage)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3953635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harley Sylvester and Jordan Stephens of Rizzle Kicks perform at The Great Escape Festival 2025 in Brighton (Photo by Joseph Okpako\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This time last year, Rizzle Kicks were proving themselves to be a surprise highlight of Glastonbury 2025.\u00a0\u201cIt was fucking insane,\u201d recalled Harley Alexander-Sule. \u201cI don\u2019t know if they told people we were giving out free money at 2pm on The Other Stage but it felt like everyone in the festival came down.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It marked a pivotal moment for the British rap duo\u2019s return, having first split in 2016 before making a celebrated comeback in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter we took our hiatus, a lot of shit stuff happened,\u201d Alexander-Sule told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that us leaving made the world shit, but Brexit happened, Trump happened, COVID happened, the cost of living went up in a big way. Everyone\u2019s just been a bit beaten up by the world, then we came back \u2013 carefree and not giving a shit. I think people latched on to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but over the last decade the UK has lost over 300 of its treasured grassroots music venues \u2013 the places where Rizzle Kicks learned the ropes to prepare them for playing to massive crowds at Glasto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in my day, you\u2019d proper cut your teeth in all those venues,\u201d said Alexander-Sule. \u201cWe were between Brighton and London, so before we got signed we\u2019d played 20 venues in Brighton. Brighton\u2019s small, so I\u2019d be very interested to know how many of those still exist. The one we\u2019re playing next \u2013 Patterns \u2013 we played there a lot. It used to be called Audio and it was one of the first shows we ever did.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThat was the venue I went to see loads of my friends play at. It wasn\u2019t a big venue, but for us as young, up and coming artists, it was a mini bucket list thing to play there or Green Door Store. If you did that at grassroots level it was like, \u2018I\u2019ve done it, I\u2019ve completed Brighton!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rizzle Kicks will be returning to Patterns for the Everywhere At Once festival, having not played there in 15 years but excited that \u201cit\u2019s so cool that it\u2019s still knocking about\u201d. So much of the band\u2019s history is embedded in Brighton, that they\u2019re predicting it\u2019ll be \u201cmore than a show,\u201d adding: \u201cyou can feel the love there because we\u2019re all so in it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3953639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3953639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3953639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rizzle_kicks_brighton.jpg\" alt=\"Harley Alexander-Sule of Rizzle Kicks performs at Shakedown Festival 2013 in Brighton (Photo by Ollie Millington\/Redferns via Getty Images)\" width=\"1331\" height=\"2000\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3953639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harley Alexander-Sule of Rizzle Kicks performs at Shakedown Festival 2013 in Brighton (Photo by Ollie Millington\/Redferns via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beyond getting back to where it all began, the duo said they needed to get involved as \u201cany light that can be shone on grassroots venues is incredible\u201d \u2013 especially now that opportunities are disappearing for new generations of artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with blowing up on TikTok, but I\u2019d be curious to see how these artists go on to cope with performing to audiences that aren\u2019t their own crowds,\u201d said Alexander-Sule. \u201cThat\u2019s how you build confidence as an artist: in doing these grassroots venues. My generation of artists may have been the last to make a name for themselves based on their live performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember in the 2000s, people would say, \u2018Have you heard of these guys? I saw them here\u2019. It was organic and people were seeing music at venues and watching support acts. A&amp;R scouts would be at those venues every night. Now they\u2019re called A&amp; analysts and they just sit on TikTok every night looking at numbers. You don\u2019t get the same authenticity. You can mask a lot on social media and present yourself in a certain way. When you\u2019re going to these live shows, there\u2019s nowhere to hide and people are seeing your authentic self all the time, and you learn things all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapper added that this shouldn\u2019t be chalked up to nostalgia or sentimentality, but simple practicality for future artists to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see most of our money come from [playing] live, and I don\u2019t think that would be the case if we didn\u2019t have the opportunity to really hone our craft,\u201d Alexander-Sule added. \u201cPlaying live is the biggest thing for us, but if we didn\u2019t put all that time and attention in, we wouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3953642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3953642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3953642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/INSPIRAL_CARPETS_LIVE.jpg\" alt=\"Kev Clark, Graham Lambert, Oscar Boon, Stephen Holt and Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets at The Barrowland Ballroom, 2024 (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti\/Redferns)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3953642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kev Clark, Graham Lambert, Oscar Boon, Stephen Holt and Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets at The Barrowland Ballroom, 2024 (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another band who cut their teeth on the smaller stages before going on to make history are Madchester legends Inspiral Carpets. They\u2019ll be playing three shows in <span>Chester, Shrewsbury and Stoke across the weekend for Everywhere At Once, simply because \u201cw<\/span><span>e\u2019re big fans of keeping the live music scene alive,\u201d said keyboarist Clint Boon, \u201cand that includes grassroots venues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAny band of our generation, whether it\u2019s the other Manchester bands, or the bands that followed likes Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines D.C., Wunderhorse \u2013 we need those small venues that only hold 150-300 people. It\u2019s impossible otherwise to go straight from being a garage band to then headlining Manchester Apollo. The first step is getting into those smaller local venues like The Boardwalk, The Roadhouse, The Night &amp; Day. They\u2019re an essential part of the journey of any successful band. It\u2019s crucial we keep these venues as part of our culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The plot thickens, as not only did Boon figure out how to become a rockstar in grassroots venues, but in the late \u201980s the band famously also hired a then unknown lad by the name of Noel Gallagher as a roadie and technician to tour the circuit with them in his pre-Oasis days.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019d even made a record when Noel joined us,\u201d Boon recalled. \u201cWe might have made our first single when our first singer left and Noel auditioned to replace him. He didn\u2019t get the job, but we took him on as a roadie. We were very much in that world of travelling up and down the UK in a transit van with band members sat in the back on the amplifiers. Noel saw first hand what bands need to do to get on that ladder to success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cStill to this day, he gives the Inspirals a lot of credit for taking him on that journey and showing him a lot about the industry and how to operate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3953644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3953644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3953644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/OASIS_LIVE_WATER_RATS.jpg\" alt=\"Oasis live at The Water Rats in London in their early days, 1994. Credit: Ian Dickson\/Redferns\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3953644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oasis live at The Water Rats in London in their early days, 1994. Credit: Ian Dickson\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Even then, Oasis still still put the the hours in by touring up and down the grassroots circuit in the back of a van.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAny band credited with organised success has a much longer backstory behind it,\u201d Boon told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cFor Noel\u2019s first year in Oasis, he was still setting our equipment up and learning. They had a good three or four years before their first big taste of success.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From Oasis\u2019 first UK headline tour in 1994, only six of the 15 remain open today. Boon admitted that w<span>ithout these spaces of this size, we simply wouldn\u2019t have Inspiral Carpets or Oasis, noting that \u201cit<\/span><span>\u00a0would be impossible to get to where bands like us are without these venues.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Looking ahead to the weekend, Boon shared that he had spent a lot time in Stoke Sugarmill as a DJ and as a musician, and still gets excited at the idea of going back into these places. \u201c<\/span><span>It\u2019s what we\u2019re all about,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a small stage, a big stage, an arena or a stadium \u2013 it\u2019s what we do. We get up and we play. I\u2019ll never tire of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With a new album ready to go and coming in January, Boon said that Inspiral Carpets would be airing some fresh material at the festival, but ultimately fans should expect \u201ct<\/span><span>he hits and the crowd favourites.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs a band, we\u2019re performing better than ever. Something magical has happened since we reformed back in 2023,\u201d he added. \u201cIt feels like everything has gone up a notch. That joy we\u2019ve got now is quite an infectious thing for people to see. Our happiness and appreciation for where we\u2019re at is what resonates with people, but we can never forget where we came from.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DY1jFtxMV2e\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Voodoo Daddy\u2019s Showroom in Norwich will be hosting gigs across the weekend, including one of three intimate shows from Tinie Tempah. Live events manager Ben Street told <em>NME<\/em> how it would \u201cadd <\/span><span>some extra focus and audience excitement\u201d on a weekend that would otherwise have been lost to Glasto.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The venue u<span>sed to be a strip club before becoming a venue under another name and then a hub for the local music community before attracting touring acts. Before long, they were putting on shows like Wunderhorse supporting Sorry and early gigs by the likes of Keo, CMAT and Olivia Dean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is a brilliant time to do this festival, because there\u2019s been such a focus on the rate at which venues are disappearing and the government not making it that easy for us,\u201d said Street. \u201cThere are lot of people that would choose to go to their local venue over a big arena show. That really pushes that hope. We have a really devout community that would rather come to Voodoos to see something new or local than see Oasis with 30,000 other people. These venues are still the beating heart of a lot of communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Street said that the network of venues in UK had \u201c<span>reached catastrophe point,\u201d but were optimistic that \u201cnow things are happening.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the weekend, Street had a simple message for music fans:\u00a0<span>\u201cCome to Voodoo Daddys, but there will be amazing gigs happening at spots all across the country. If you\u2019re looking for something to fill that Glastonbury gap but you want to speak to the band after, this is the chance to see bands up close that wouldn\u2019t normally be playing venues to about 200-300 people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the opportunity to see something special. We\u2019re a dive bar and a pizza joint, so we\u2019re the archetype of a venue like this.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Everywhere At Once comes at a time when the UK is reeling from \u201cthe complete collapse of touring\u201d with only 12 locations left on the primary or secondary circuit for artists where it used to be 28 back in 1994. After decades of decline and the spiralling cost of living and touring, thousands of fans and communities are now without nearby access to live music and countless opportunities for artists are lost. It was recently revealed that over half of UK grassroots venues made no profit in 2025, with 6,000 jobs gone.<\/p>\n<p>MVT CEO Mark Davyd said he hoped this weekend would be an opportunity for fans to rediscover their local venues, and that he was grateful for artists from Tom A. Smith to The Divine Comedy for getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put a call out thinking, \u2018Who could we get to go back to a venue we and they really believe in?\u2019 We were trying to shake things up a bit,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of people will know the story of The Lathums, The Cause, The K\u2019s, but beyond that Becky Hill has a really close association with The Marr\u2019s Bar in Worcester, we wanted to tell the story of where Tinie Tempha has played, and it got very deep and a lot of big things popped up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scale and scope of it is quite difficult to get your head around. These venues really matter to artists and people have been working really hard to pull off something really special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said that away from the intimate underplays of bigger artists, fans should also \u201cget out and see something new and give a new artist a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYy_6bxsr2F\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHuge input has gone into over 400 venues creating over 1,000 events with around 2,500 artists,\u201d Davyd added. \u201cWhat it now needs is for the grassroots audience to go out. This is all for them and about celebrating the spaces that are still here after the last 12 years of struggle. Our big message is go to the website, put your postcode in and you can see everything going on around you. Just go celebrate how fantastic it is that these venues are out there. It\u2019s been really hard, but there\u2019s still brilliant stuff happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019 just about every type of music along with comedy and spoken word, so much from every genre.\u00a0If you can find me someone who can\u2019t find something they don\u2019t like, then I\u2019m going to say they don\u2019t like music! This is a weekend for music fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Everywhere At Once runs across the UK until Sunday 28 June. Visit here for events and all information.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/everywhere-at-once-festival-glastonbury-rizzle-kicks-inspiral-carpets-music-venue-trust-oasis-interview-3953625&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rizzle_carpets_2000.jpg&#8221;] NewsMusic News Missing Glastonbury? There\u2019s a festival on your doorstep that\u2019s saving grassroots venues The Everywhere At Once festival brings huge names and rising talent to hundreds of venues across the UK this weekend. 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