Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has spoken to NME following the town’s inaugural Past the Music convention about how he hopes it’s going to “galvanise” the music business as points affecting the business fall on “deaf ears” at Westminster. Final month’s Past the Music explored a number of crises the music business is at the moment dealing with, reminiscent of the way forward for grassroots venues and the persevering with affect of Brexit on UK musicians struggling to tour Europe. On the latter, Burnham mentioned “it’s just wrong” that the careers of younger musicians are nonetheless struggling as they proceed to face […]