Setlist

On this week's show we discuss the UK Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee recommending that a levy on ticket sales for large scale shows be implemented by September and that the government should instigate a VAT cut for grassroots music venues, plus the concerns surrounding the launch of a new SXSW festival in London.

SECTION TIMES

01: Grassroots venues report (00:06:50)

02: News in brief (00:14:18)

03: SXSW London (00:17:38)

(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

THIS WEEK'S MAIN STORIES

• MPs set September deadline for ticket levy to support grassroots venues and shows

• SXSW London could disrupt delicately balanced music ecosystem and should reconsider its date

NEWS IN BRIEF

• TikTok sues the US government over sell-or-be-banned law

• Goldman Sachs analysts upbeat about music industry after a “turning point” year

• Lucian’s lunch money under threat as shareholder pressure mounts over “excessive” pay packet

• Nine of the ten wrongful death Astroworld lawsuits now settled, says Live Nation

• OfCom should use Online Safety Act powers to force Facebook to act on ticket scams, says Which?

• Music Venue Properties announces purchase of The Ferret in Preston

• Apple finds out the hard way that not everyone thinks destruction is a form of creation