A call for secondary ticketing to be re-examined by the Government was made at a UK Music Liverpool Sound City roundtable last week.

The Liverpool MPs Luciana Berger and Steve Rotherham (a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee), local musicians, promoters, managers and venue owners gathered on Friday at the annual conference to debate issues affecting the live market.

Discussing the continual problem of secondary ticketing, Rotherham called the practice "pernicious" and a way of "ripping off poor people".  He ...