Speeches by Bryant.

“Those are obviously decisions for mayors rather than for us. I know both of them obviously and I think both of them had done an extraordinary job, although some of the media criticised them quite aggressively. The night-time economy is an important part of what people come to the UK for. One of the great delights as a …”

“There could. In a sense, that is what the agent of change principle is seeking to do. As I said earlier, that is why we are considering the question of whether or not we should put that into statute. Incidentally, I am a great fan of Amy Lamé. I remember her when she used to run Duckie at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.”

“I was one of the people who signed up to getting the Royal Vauxhall Tavern listed because I thought that it was an important part of our cultural heritage.”

“I cannot give you a precise date, but I think it is somewhere between soon and imminently.”

“After all these years. Dame Caroline, as Led Zeppelin sang, when the levee breaks, mama, you’ve got to move.”

“Well, in the words of Harry Styles, we are pleasing, never perfect, so I would prefer us to have achieved a lot more by now. However, I said in my letter to you—in I think November last year—that we hoped to make substantial progress by the first quarter of 2025 and we have made substantial progress. That is good. But …”

“We have said that we want it to be a voluntary levy because it is quicker to achieve. As you know, anything that requires statute takes forever and a day. I do not know when the next King’s Speech is going to be, so I do not know when we would be able to legislate. I do not think we would be able to do it by secondary …”

“Probably not, is the honest truth, for the reason that I just said. There might be an individual artist from overseas or whatever who might want to say, “If there is a charitable donation coming from me from my gigs it is going to go to the Amazon rainforest” or whatever it may be, and I would want to honour that. My g…”

“They are all part of the equation as well, and of course there is a lot of interaction between all the various parts of the ecosystem, and we are talking to them too.”

“Well, it ends up being the whole package in a sense, because for anybody just putting together a tour—there are lots of other things that affect tours in particular, particularly big stadium tours, many of which I have addressed in different arena, including the issue of whether they can tour in Europe and things like …”

“Live Nation could sign up 100% and help in relation to Ticketmaster, but also in relation to any of the acts that it is representing. I don’t know whether Alastair wants to add anything to that.”

“They are all part of the equation, and I am having a bit more of the conversation here now with them.”

“The ticketing websites? Obviously, that takes us on to the secondary ticket market as well. There is a whole series of questions. I noticed the questions that were asked previously that we may want to address, and some of the conversations that we are having with them have been slightly more fraught in relation to whet…”

“Keep calm, and do not get too frustrated with the charity commissioners. They have an important job to do to make sure that everybody understands their responsibilities that they take on as a trustee. However, you do have to dot the I’s and cross the T’s. You cannot take shortcuts when it comes to getting all of this r…”

“If it loses any element of credibility, people are going to start saying, “Well, I am not going to sign up to this”.”

“And in many ways struggling as well.”

“They had better do and, to be honest, we have had such constructive conversations since I took on the role and on the back of our response to your Committee report, and I think on a couple of occasions Dame Caroline has asked me questions in the Chamber—and others have—about whether we would implement legislation. We a…”

“I am already going to Diana Ross.”

“I am also going to the Scissor Sisters, and you will be shocked to hear I am going to see Kylie. But I think the Kylie tour was all organised long before this and I am sure we should be so lucky, but Kylie might arrange another tour, and when she has another tour I hope she will sign up too. Should we stop this now?”

“Stop in the name of love.”