In December, the EU and the United Kingdom succeeded in negotiating such a new trade agreement, and it came into force at the turn of the year.

There is no agreement in the agreement that musicians will be able to move freely across EU borders.

This means that touring artists and bands may need a work visa for each individual country that requires it.

Something that leads to more administrative work and costs if you want to tour within the EU.

Suggestions for a musician's session

Concerns about this have existed since the United Kingdom voted in favor of leaving the EU.

The trade union Musicians union has worked to ensure that their members can get a kind of musician's passport, which makes it possible to move across the member states' borders, just as before.

- The government assured us that it would be so - that they could deliver it.

So we are really very disappointed with the latest news, says Horace Trubridge, Secretary General of the Musicians' Union.

When the negotiations on the trade agreement took place in December, a petition was launched demanding that British musicians and staff be able to tour without a visa.

It currently has 260,000 signatures and Boris Johnson has promised to meet with MEPs to discuss the issue.

Both sides blame each other

The EU says Britain has rejected a proposal to be able to travel visa-free for 90 days in each 180-day period.

British Culture Minister Oliver Dowden writes in a statement in NME that the UK came up with a tailor-made offer that artists and their staff would be allowed to be on the list which means that they do not need a work visa.

"But the EU rejected the proposal several times," he writes.

No longer as simple as when Britain was a member state

A spokesperson for the European Commission writes in a statement to Kulturnyheterna:

"The UK has chosen to no longer allow free movement of EU citizens going to the UK.

It also refused to include a chapter on mobility in the agreement.

These choices inevitably mean that travel between the EU and the UK, even for business purposes, will no longer be as easy as when the UK was a member state. "

Minister of Culture Oliver Dowden writes in his statement that the UK is still open to discussion, if the EU changes.