The Music Venue Trust are not impressed by today’s budget. Despite lots of discussions and roadshows where the Government fan-led review has gone out to the people across the country, the country’s chief accountant* has done nothing for the grassroots music ecosystem.

* Sorry, she doesn’t have the vision to be called an economist. This is not a slur on her as a female. I think it’s about time we had a female chancellor, but she’s not a Keynes or a Friedman, she’s just balancing the books, like an accountant.