A disability rights activist has told LBC that “disabled people are missing out on big gigs due to the incompetence of venues”.
As people scramble to get their hands on Oasis tickets today, Holly April, also known online as ‘Stoma Babe’, is calling on venues to do more to cater to the needs of ALL disabled people.“There’s an attitude from some, that disabled people shouldn’t be entitled to joy, that they should stay at home. And because of that attitude, it just continues to perpetuate that message and therefore some people do get defeated and think to themselves… I’m not even going to deal with the stress of all this.
When you have a disability, you are so limited that all the odds are stacked up against you.” Campaign group Attitude is Everything, who work to connect disabled people with music and live event industries to improve access, say that accessible ticket phonelines have disappeared following the height of the pandemic and that sometimes, those phonelines are extremely busy due to demand for certain events.
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