Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd’s monthly deep dive into live music’s biggest issues...

The Prime Minister recently made one of those periodic speeches that governments like to make about how we need to ‘level up’ society to make sure there is ‘access for all’. To illustrate this agenda, he chose to launch an indicative aim and ambition; in Mr Johnson’s own words, that “no one should be more than 15 minutes from a football ground”.

That objective rings ...