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- Headline
- Live Music's Competition Problem
- What happened
- MPs want the CMA to launch a full market investigation into the UK live music industry, citing a climate of fear around dominant firms.
- Why it matters
- Live music is being treated as a market problem as well as a cultural one, with questions over ticket access, pricing, artist power, venue pressure and the influence of dominant companies.
- Possible Newsgle angle
- Buying a gig ticket now feels less like culture and more like applying for a mortgage with drums.
- Suggested tag/category
- Culture