GG: My name is Gideon Gottfried and I'm the European Correspondent for Pole Star
which is a US live entertainment trade
magazine
Q: What do you think about the work of the Music Venue Trust?
GG: I really like the work the Music
Venue Trust does, I find it very
interesting because as it was mentioned
today a couple of times that
grassroots music venues are the research
and development department of the live
music industry I've found that analogy
quite nice because nobody really thinks
about it like that, but they are really
the place where the talent of the future
is being honed and shaped so
highlighting those venues and helping
them in all ways possible which is what
the Music Venue Trust does is a highly
valuable thing to do, I think
Q: Is there anything in particular you learned today?
GG: Well I've come up with a couple of takeaways from
from today since I'm very interested in
the topic and I've talked to the Music
Venue Trust members a lot in the past as
well there wasn't particularly new stuff
but I plan in my coverage about grass
roots music menus in the future to
highlight that very fact that they are
the research and development project of
the live music industry much more in the
future so that was my main thing I
got from you
Q: If you had a message to live music fans about these small music
venues what would that be?
GG: Well that's a tricky one because I'd say go out to the small
venues because the intimacy of the gig,
that you're gonna experience there is
nothing like you're gonna ever
experience in any arena or stadium like
it's I've never come to love any
arena gig more than you know 150 to
300 capacity gig it's just nothing like
it it's a very intimate, it's very warm
and very beautiful.
