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Allan James's avatar

I absolutely love the way you have laid this all out. For 3/4 years now I have been supporting grassroots artists and venues. It pains me to see this situation and I really want to thank you for everything you are doing to highlight this desperate situation.

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Sammy Clarke's avatar

It feels as though the likes of Live Nation and a lot of other big stakeholders love the sound of their own goodwill when they say that they support the levy but then it appears that nothing gets done about.

Perhaps a way of getting this done (which kind of makes it a mandate) is to have the biggest artists and their agents agree to include a clause their performance contracts that the tickets for the arena and stadium shows that they play must include a levy for grassroots music.

That, or perhaps an outside intervention from someone from LIVE UK who comes into each of these companies and ‘helps’ them to bake the levy into their policy and processes for setting up tickets for shows.

Of all of the 7% of tickets that include a levy thus far, I’d love to know who the companies were and whether the engagement with the idea is in correlation with how much air time the levy is getting in the media at a given time.

A bit like how social media trends around current affairs spike and then gradually abate as the next unjust atrocity enters from the wings.

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