JEREMY CORBYN has pledged his support to the nation’s independent venues during a recent interview.
Speaking to The Independent, the man who could well be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom come the early hours of Friday morning has not only critiqued the restrictive ‘Form 696’ but has also espoused the importance of live music as a whole:
““What you have is a number of independent venues, sometimes pubs, cafes, so on, that have become almost informal live music venues, and the small cafe does well and ‘hey presto’ along comes Costa, Starbucks, Nero or something to take it over. [It’s] the same with pubs, which are often very reluctant to have live music on. Those live venues are absolutely crucial to the future of the music scene. So the £1,000 pub-licensing rebate is a good thing – we want to extend that a lot further.”
However, it appears that the Labour Party MP isn’t just focused on music as an entertainment industry but also spoke at length about the value of music as part of a school curriculum:
““What I’m interested in is the sense of expression that music gives people, hence the points I’ve been making endlessly about musical instruments children for children. Any teacher will tell you that a child learning music at school is likely to do better at a lot of other things,” he said, “because there is a discipline in learning music, a sense of rhythm, a sense of timing involved…”
