Your host, Paul Cheetham, is joined by special guest Mark Davyd, boss of the Music Venue Trust, and usually based between London and Barcelona.
We talked about how Mark and his dedicated team are managing to keep motivated and focused while helping support over 900 grassroots UK venues during this overwhelming Covid-19 crisis.
We look at the challenges faced by independent venues that are under the constant threat of closure and the battles and banter Mark has with government ministers, cultural funding bodies, local councils and Brexit twitter trolls on a regular basis.
The work that Mark and his team are doing is truly remarkable, creating and implementing highly detailed plans of action, wearing their burning hearts on their collective sleeves as they forge ahead under the no-nonsense rallying cry "People who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of people doing it!
As well as talking of the pressure and responsibility he feels, Mark also tells us the story of how the iconic Pollstar cover photo of him crowd surfing was created as well as whether he would accept a knighthood (or similar award) from the Queen or not.
For more information about the campaign being run by the Music Venue Trust and to find out how to help towards the cause to Save Our Venues follow the links:
http://musicvenuetrust.com/
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-our-venues-red-list
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