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Allan James's avatar

Another superb post with the facts laid bare for all to see. Government asleep at the wheel on this maybe? The growth of huge live events and algorithm pricing has happened too quickly in real time for the government to get a handle on this?? I suppose that will be letting them off the hook somewhat and isn’t helped by cabinet reshuffles and their ‘bigger fish to fry’ attitude. I don’t profess to know anything about what is going on in the background BUT what I CAN see is if you Mark, and everyone connected to MVT did not exist then we would have absolutely nothing by way of live music at venues below 800 capacity in the near future. You and MVT staff are true heroes and thank you so much for doing everything that you do🙏👍

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Allan James's avatar

Posted from a Facebook group and another reason why transport needs to run later!

Erykah Badu at the Apollo. She still has an amazing voice but I was extremely grumpy and annoyed with her because we paid 90 pounds each for the tickets and my partner had to leave 15 minutes into it to get his last train home if she'd been on time he'd have got most of the act! I didn't get to see her play my favourite songs because she ran out of time and they put the lights on....

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Mark Sampson's avatar

Someone had to say it. Thanks for writing all this out.

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