Cooking Vinyl Group MD Martin Goldschmidt has called for direct tax breaks for the music industry.

Speaking at the Vote For Music Keynote session at The Great Escape in Brighton last week, Goldschmidt (pictured) said industry bodies needed to demand a tax break for music production to put it on a par with other creative industries.

"The tax breaks that currently exist to help the music industry actually give the tax break to private investors,” he said. “As exists ...