Little wonder that Sam Dabb of Le Pub was so bullish in her comments to NME recently, claiming that Newport was "heading into another golden era". She knew that the venue she's been involved with for three decades was on the verge of being announced as the latest acquisition by Music Venue Properties (MVP), thus staving off acute financial pressures and safeguarding its future.
That Le Pub has joined the Bunkhouse in Swansea in MVP's portfolio shouldn't come as any real surprise. After all, as Mark Davyd of the Music Venue Trust has said, "Le Pub was one of the very first venues to join the Music Venues Alliance, and has been, for the last ten years, one of the most vocal and active campaigning voices about the importance of grassroots music venues to our communities, towns and cities". The security that ownership by MVP will bring seems like just desserts.
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