The Northern Guitars operators said: “This purchase protects a rare grassroots music venue in Leeds city centre and ensures local and touring artists will continue to have a stage for years to come.<\/p>\n
“It gives us the confidence to focus on what we do best: championing new talent and building our music community.<\/p>\n
“The fact that this space will remain a venue rather than becoming another generic bar is something the whole cultural community can celebrate.”<\/p>\n
The Gut Level team added: “This stability will benefit not only the venue, but also the many people who use Gut Level to create, organise, connect, and celebrate.<\/p>\n
“It’s a huge win for our community.”<\/p>\n
Millicent Morgan runs Leeds-based Morgan Agency, which promotes local up-and-coming artists.<\/p>\n
“Without independent grassroots venues it would be near impossible to host events for small artists at a reasonable cost,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It would be very difficult for new artists to get a foot in the door.<\/p>\n
“We need to protect our independent venues because they create a sense of community.<\/p>\n
“Being owned by a team of people that value the social and community impacts of the venue rather than just it being a money-making machine is really important.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Guitars operators said: “This purchase protects a rare grassroots music venue in Leeds city centre and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-630867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}