Unless our government acts, the red tape and costs of touring Europe will kill off careers and diminish our national culture
My band Radiohead’s first ever club gig in Europe was on 2 June 1993 at Huset (a sort of arts club) in Aarhus, Denmark. We’d loved our pub and club touring the UK and were so grateful for any chance to travel. We went on to play small clubs and early festival slots across Sweden, the Netherlands and France in a crappy old bus that smelled of diesel and had sad grey curtains. There were so many different kinds of milk. It was brilliant fun, as friends working together to get our music across to different cultures.
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