You have chosen a great metaphor to explain this Mark. I love these updates and analogies but pray for the day when these posts are an archive to go back to, to see just how close we were to the collapse of GMV’s before something was finally done to turn this all around.
Great analogy Mark and all so true, the £1 levy is great and MVP is doing a great job, a venue at a time, so much more can and will be done quickly before the canal empties. 🙏🏾
Brilliant use of the canal metaphor to ilustrate infrastructure collapse. The part about touring routes shrinking from 30 cities in 1994 to 12 in 2024 quantifies what everyone in live music feels but rarely sees mapped out so starkly. What makes the Valuation Office timing particularly brutal is that it undermines the Transitional Relief scheme before it even launches, turning what should be stabilizaton policy into another unintended extraction mechanism.
You have chosen a great metaphor to explain this Mark. I love these updates and analogies but pray for the day when these posts are an archive to go back to, to see just how close we were to the collapse of GMV’s before something was finally done to turn this all around.
Great analogy Mark and all so true, the £1 levy is great and MVP is doing a great job, a venue at a time, so much more can and will be done quickly before the canal empties. 🙏🏾
Brilliant use of the canal metaphor to ilustrate infrastructure collapse. The part about touring routes shrinking from 30 cities in 1994 to 12 in 2024 quantifies what everyone in live music feels but rarely sees mapped out so starkly. What makes the Valuation Office timing particularly brutal is that it undermines the Transitional Relief scheme before it even launches, turning what should be stabilizaton policy into another unintended extraction mechanism.