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Midge Ure’s Tunited closes
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 12 October 2011
Midge Ure has announced the closure of his grass roots music service Tunited, blaming a lack of investment for the decision.
As previously reported, Tunited, which was launched at the end of 2009, offered a platform for new, grass roots and independent artists to showcase and sell their tunes, with added tools for aiding music creation and advice for new talent.
In an email sent to the site’s users yesterday, Ure said: “We recognised early on that there were some key features you wanted and needed on site; the development of which requires further funding to create. For some months we’ve been seeking additional funding for this development work but despite raising a substantial amount of money, we haven’t secured enough to develop Tunited into the best music platform it needs to be.
He added: “Although the response to the site has been phenomenal from both artists and the music industry, the recession and lack of funding has brought this, very much needed, platform to an end. The site is now offline while we continue to speak with interested people about partnering us in the work that we have begun. I sincerely hope that at some stage in the future we can relaunch all or part of Tunited in some format to help support all artists realise their dreams”.
Ure also said that he still has a “desire to see a proper ‘home’ for real music” launched online. Whatever that means.
