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Areas you love get bulldozed, music venues close, society changes, the way we spend our time changes, the way we interact with the world changes.
Outside of London the situation varies from one city to the next but in general it is challenging securing venues close to city centres".
In London, gentrification and rising property prices – followed swiftly by new and deeply unhappy neighbours – have seen nearly 40% of the city's grassroots music venues close in less than a decade.
With most of the venues close to complete and the process of handing them over to Locog underway, the scrutiny of the media and the public will move from the amount invested in building them by the Olympic Delivery Authority to the job that Lord Coe's organisation will do in filling them.
Weather is an important factor, of course, but we are due a good summer this year". Melanie Kiani, who runs Bournemouth-based wedding planners Bellissimo, said she thought it would be "very popular" as there were surprisingly few wedding venues close to the sea in the area.
A third peak time will also be introduced when the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, or other venues, close.
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The local venues closed.
Galapagos Art Space, the grande dame of Williamsburg venues, closed earlier this year to prepare for a move to Dumbo.
The House of Blues, one of the Strip's longest standing music venues, closed its doors earlier this month after 21 years.
Noise complaints and Operation Condor have sounded the death knell for other music hotspots, with 400 venues closing their doors in the capital in the last decade.
"Big venue live music is thriving, but, due to smaller venues closing, in a few years' time we will no longer be producing the bands who have cut their teeth in the smaller venues," said Murison.
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