The UK music industry may “shrivel and eventually die” unless the government gives musicians more support following Brexit, a Mercury Prize-winning band has told NationalWorld.

The new Paying The Price report comes from the Independent Society of Musicians.

Arts missing out on tens of millions from expanded EU fund, say campaigners.

Extra paperwork, border checks and additional costs for exports - Brexit has destroyed the livelihoods of countless musicians.

Brexit has caused sadness far and wide, but for very many musicians who are only just beginning to emerge from the Covid-induced touring dearth, Brexit has been a disaster. A survey conducted by musicians in 2021 revealed that 34 per cent of musicians had already lost work as a result of Brexit. A violinist said, “I am professionally paralysed by Brexit.”