Music Venue Trust's Mark Davyd examines the hidden, systemic costs of live music...
There is a version of the Grassroots Levy story that ends well and a version that ends ...
Mark Davyd turns the spotlight on the Music Week Awards' grassroots venue finalists...
The Grassroots Venue: Spirit Of The Scene award provides me with the chance to step outside ...
Mark Davyd digs into the MVT’s latest Annual Report
The publication of the Music Venue Trust Annual Report 2025 presents a stark financial reality for grassroots music venues across the ...
Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd explains the realities of campaigning
It can take the best part of a decade to fix something in our industry. Ideas can surface, gain ...
For our monthly columnist and Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd, 2025 “has been a year of stark contradictions” at the end of which “we can see the shape ...
On May 13, the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee returned to the issue of grassroots music, and we saw something that’s become increasingly familiar in recent years – a ...
You can’t pay bills with hope. We’ve all said that a lot in the last year – venues, fans, promoters and artists all clinging to the idea that things really ...
We spend a lot of time talking about why grassroots music venues are struggling: rents, noise complaints, business rates and soaring costs driving them to closure and depriving our ...
There’s a distinctive element to the Music Week Awards Grassroots Venue: Spirit Of The Scene category this year. Each nominee isn’t just a potential winner, they all represent something about ...
