Passport - Back To Our Roots: The Slow Readers Club

Big Artists. Small Gigs. Making a Huge Difference to Independent Grassroots Venues.

Passport: Back to Our Roots is a nationwide series of one-off intimate gigs by the UK’s biggest artists, supporting the independent grassroots venues that form the foundations of the UK’s live music scene.

This is your chance to watch the biggest artists play their smallest gigs – live and in person like they should be – while making a huge difference to the UK’s crisis-stricken grassroots music venues, who need urgent help due to COVID-19 closures.

The gigs will be happening as soon as real shows can happen safely – these are not socially distanced experiences. Fundraising campaigns for each event will be open for two weeks, and at the end of each campaign, all proceeds go to support venues in need, right now.

How Does it Work?

Major artists support the venues that provide a crucial platform as the first rung on the UK’s world-renowned touring circuit, championing the fundraising campaigns and pledging to ‘return to their roots’ by playing a show at their chosen grassroots venue at a point in the future when ‘normal service’ can resume for live music.

These shows are not live-streamed from an empty room or held under ‘social distancing’ conditions.

Rather, they are a celebration of the unrivalled experience of watching your favourite artist in a room full of friends and fellow fans – as it should be.

This means that all gigs are ‘date TBC’. They will happen when it’s safe for gigs to happen properly. We know this seems a long time to wait. But we need to raise funds right now, to help the grassroots music venues we all love.

Tickets have been allocated as part of a prize draw.

www.passportbacktoourroots.org/