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Amelia Vandergast has written an excellent piece for A&R Factory called The Guilt Trip: Why Punters Can’t Save Grassroots Venues While Institutional Giants Bleed Them Dry. It puts out in public something we discuss very often in MVT, someth...
Promised You a Miracle
On Thursday Lord Brennan of Canton (see previous columns, you can call him Kevin) rose in the House of Lords to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the contribution of live music to the UK’s culture and economy. T...
A Design for Life
Keir Starmer resigned on the morning of 22 June 2026, the seventh PM in 10 years to wander up to the lectern and announce that it was always about putting the country first. One day later it was exactly ten years since the referendum that t...
All Together Now
Everywhere at Once.
On the weekend of 26 to 28 June, more than four hundred grassroots music venues are going to open on the same three days and put on something like two and a half thousand different acts across well over a thousand show...
Let's Dance
This week I want you to indulge me while we talk about dancing. Eventually, and with at least a little build up and a justification, I’ll talk about the birth rate. I promise it will make some sort of sense when I do.
A brief and incredib...
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Typical wokerati lefty tofu eating social justice warrior. CEO & Founder Music Venue Trust, Co-owner of an old toilet in Tunbridge Wells. The views expressed are my personal opinions, not the views of any organisation or company I work for.
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