Live rock returns, from a distance: inside Frank Turner's "government-endorsed" pilot concert

AT FOUR PM on Tuesday 28th July, the English singer Frank Turner leans over a table in a small room in South West London and signs 200 autographs. His black marker pen dances atop a stack of A4 posters bearing the name of the music hall in which he is seated. Tonight is the occasion of "a live concert to help [re-open] the Clapham Grand", a handsome Victorian venue that has staged performances by such icons as Charlie Chaplin and Chuck Berry.