Bristol record store Idle Hands has announced it will shut at its current Stokes Croft address, with a crowdfunder launched to alleviate the costs of being closed, and to go toward helping it set up in a new, more central, location.

As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?

The music charity Help Musicians is set to provide a new fund that will give UK-based artists advice and planning tips regarding touring Europe in the post-Brexit climate.

Independent UK labels and artists are struggling with the crippling impact of Brexit. Figures in the UK music industry are now revealing that the “spiralling costs” of sending products to Europe is having an adverse effect on their business following the Brexit deal.

Many UK acts and labels now find it "kind of untenable to ship records to Europe"

Following Brexit and then a pandemic, independent labels and artists were already being crippled by the costs and delays to their vinyl releases, now they have been compounded by major artists block booking pressing plants.