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1. If you're hoping to fly into Europe you're now going to need to acquire a plane ticket, this could cost you a colossal amount of money, and there's every possibility now that we've left the EU that your plane could crash into a mountain.
2. If you were thinking of taking the ferry, don't think that any kind of deal between Boris and Trump will stop you from being eaten by a shark should the ferry sink.
3. You will need to purchase Travel Insurance prior to leaving for you destination, but remember if you do become sick or injured it's probably going to be down to those xenophobic racist who voted for Brexit.
But what do I know, being a naive remainer who knows nothing. I suppose we will only have to wait until January to see if it was indeed "Project Fear" or whether we will suddenly start farting rainbows and bathing in money as soon as we are fully out
Just a question and I'm not trolling. @RobertW, have you ever toured in Europe?
Sorry to hear this, @merlin. My best and most formative experiences as a musician were European tours. I’m sorry that experience might be lost for a lot of younger musicians.
It will be more inconvenient and more expensive travelling into the EU from 1/1/21 and there are likely to be additional business costs - but that seemed a likely outcome before anyone even voted in the referendum. Whether that's a price worth paying for that thing, you know that thing, that we get from having Brexit is a matter of judgement.
Look if in the past you've bundled yourself into the back of a Transit van and toured Europe, congratulations, you've lived the dream. I'm terribly sorry that from now on you're going to have to treat things more professionally; prepare paperwork, calculate the financial viability, you know, treat it like a job and not a holiday. But if it turns out the actual demand for your music doesn't exceed the expense of the trip, then that's probably on you and not the Bureau De Change.
Brexit effectively kills the way I've always done it, which was as simple as a guitarist moving from Cardiff to Edinburgh looking for work.
Yes, you can apply for this and pay for that, but you need contracts or job offers in place, and the time delay just means they'll get someone else.
British orchestral musicians have it even worse, the EU will effectively be closed to most of them.
Don't expect any sympathy on a forum of planning officers and IT nerds though @camf - amateur guitar collectors are even more disdainful of pro musicians than the general public are in my experience, probably through jealousy.