Sensw's music video emphasizes the emergency of lost music sites

In its latest video, an Oxford Rock Band has highlighted the decreasing number of live music establishments in Great Britain.

Four-member long-term systems advertise their new single I-swing with a video that contains clips in which they ask other musicians which former base establishments they miss.

Singer and guitarist Rich Bell described the closure of event locations as “epidemic” that “put down in our cultural landscape, but these rooms continue to live in our memories”.

Oxford, which has used ribbons such as ride, radiohead, super grass, foals and glass animals, has closed a number of event locations itself in recent years, including the basement and the wheaf.

According to the recent annual report of the Music Venue Trust, 2024 reduces the number of venues in Great Britain from 835 to 810.

This called this a “significant improvement in the decline rate” in the previous year, when 125 were completed, but 43.8% of the venues reported a loss.

Mr. Bell said: “The song is about feeling invisible and overlooked and saying that I am here. I exist, I take physical space.”

He added: “I have shown many shows in Oxford and in recent years it was really excavated by great places such as the wheaf, the basement, fusion art and the port of Mahon.

“These rooms are gone, but the memories of shows that I saw there that it is still very alive for me, I thought it would be nice to find out about the memories of others about great lost venues.”

The emerging acts in the video include the None, objections, dancers and ritual mistakes.

The income from the single goes towards YWMP, a music for music that sets up a new event location in the Little Clarendon Street.

“It feels good that this will help to create new space in a small way,” said Bell.

Sinews released her debut -EP again last year and followed it in February with choreography.

The Nightshift Music Magazine has described the post-hardcore band, whose influences are Fugazi, Drive like Jehu, Helm and McLusky to find the “Sweet Spot between thoughtful complexity and musical violence”.

The band will later start the single with a headline show in the library in Oxford.