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With so many small independent music venues on the brink of survival, the Music Venues Trust has set about defending them in a joined-up way. Sebastian Scotney @LondonJazz found out how.

Music venues are haemorrhaging cash. As Mark Davyd, founder and CEO of the Music Venue Trust explained in a telephone interview with Sebastian last week: “We have analysed the costs of our 770 members. We can see how far the early phase of government support took them till it ran out on 27 April. The increase in the liabilities of all our members is currently £524,000 per day.”

Faced with the increasing risk to the survival of so many venues, which will increase the longer the closures last, what is impressive here is the number of ways in which the MVT is acting on behalf of venues, and also the joined-up way in which it has sets about defending them... Keep reading on London Jazz News

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The #SaveOurVenues Campaign (London Jazz News)