https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/music-venue-properties-pipeline-tenth-venue-freehold https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/music-venue-properties-pipeline-tenth-venue-freehold Music Venue Properties, the charitable community benefit society set up by Music Venue Trust, has bought The Pipeline in Brighton, the tenth grassroots venue secured through its Own Our Venues campaign. The model swaps a commercial landlord for a charitable one. That removes the property risk behind more than a third of venue closures, but it does nothing for the thin margins behind most of the rest. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industrylive-musicvenuesuk