But Coldrick said this was not a viable solution: Trucks would also have to make longer journeys to pick bands up, increasing costs. Several British music trucking businesses have already moved some of their operations to Ireland to get around the rules. In June, she helped launch Let the Music Move, a campaign for the government to compensate artists for the new extra costs and renegotiate the tour rules. “We’re all becoming increasingly despondent,” said Annabella Coldrick, the chief executive of the Music Managers Forum, a trade body. This was met with disdain: “Ah those infamous tours of mountainous Liechtenstein with its total lack of airport,” Simone Marie of the band Primal Scream wrote on Twitter. In June, Britain agreed to new trade deals that the government said would allow musicians to tour easily in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Yet so far, there hasn’t been enough progress to appease musicians. “We must fix this,” he told lawmakers in March. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said his government is working “flat out” on the issue. Regardless of who is responsible, the issue has become an embarrassment for the British government. The furor over the regulations has led to a blame game between Britain’s government and the European Union over which side is responsible for the new barriers, and who made viable offers when negotiating the trade deal.
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