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So, unless somebody tells me different, on the 13th of September, Elbow getting the Bestival crowd to hum the theme to Star Trek, boldly saw out another festival sea-son – where does the time go!? If this was truly the last event of the season (although I am getting reports of a later one, Loopallu, in the Scottish Highlands) it certainly con-cluded things in fine and optimistic form, starting in 2004 with 6000 people, the sun shone on 40,000 people at this edition on the Isle of Wight. Bestival featured a fancy dress parade with an outer space theme, organiser BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank, commented, “People come down here to lose themselves for three days, and dress-ing up helps with that.” On the UK main-land and not far down the coast, dressing up was the last thing that the organisers of The Beachdown Festival, planned for the last weekend in August in my home town of Brighton, were thinking of, losing them-selves was probably more in mind as this second edition was cancelled at short no-tice, leaving much in disarray.
The very different fortunes of these two festivals sums up the volatility of a vast area of the events industry in which, as we said in the last issue’s festival report, abso-lutely nothing can be taken for granted!
However, whilst, according to BBC News, an army of aliens, astronauts and assorted space cadets frolicked on the Isle of Wight I retreated to the garden of a pub in Kent for a much smaller festival, to hear some great music from musicians who have in their time played to huge audiences around the world. Hamish Stuart of Average White Band and Wings fame, and his partner run
the pub, and for the second year he invited friends to play the Oare Festival. On the Saturday and Sunday, talent such as Andy Newmark, one time drummer for Sly & The Family Stone, who has played with pretty much everyone from a couple of Beatles to Bowie, Clapton, Gilmore et al, Chris Difford of Squeeze, Suggs from Madness, Paul Young, Pete Cox of Go West, Who bassist Pino Paladino, plus Hamish’s own band, played great music alongside local musi-cians in a very intimate setting – with real beer at pub prices! Don’t tell your friends! I don’t want too many people getting to hear about it, nor I think do the villagers – I heard one old lady proclaim, “It’s the only time I thank God for being deaf – I can’t hear the bloody racket!”- Now there’s con-sidered criticism if ever I heard it...
Talking of deafness a recent Reuters re-port struck a dimly heard but very person-ally relevant chord with me. The hearing in my left ear was damaged when I worked
briefly with the band Saxon – not during a gig and not their fault – whilst walking in front of the PA stacks in an empty hall I was almost knocked over by the howl which emitted when some nameless per-son irresponsibly threw up all the faders at one time. It took a couple of weeks before I realised that the deafness was not tem-porary, checks revealed that I had lost sev-eral of the frequencies in the left ear, and of late, after a few very loud festival bands this summer I think things have got worse, I’m having tests tomorrow, the right one still works so I can still hear those bloody seagulls and if you’re offering to buy me a drink then you’re loud and clear!
The report concerns the ultra loud My Bloody Valentine (the elderly lady I men-tioned before was probably a headbang-ing fan!) teaming up with earplug com-pany Earplugshop.com to finally give out earplugs at concerts. Gigs regularly ex-ceed the recommended decibel limit that it is safe to be exposed to for any length of time, with sound levels easily reaching 115 decibels, which causes hearing damage in less than 30 seconds, the safe level being 85 decibels. More people than ever are ex-posing themselves to loud music because of the growth in live music but according to a poll, 81 per cent of people still don’t realise that they can permanently dam-age their hearing after just 15 minutes of exposure to loud music. I once heard the redoubtable Seymour Stein asked what piece of cutting edge music technology he found most useful in these days of con-stant innovation – he replied, “My ears!” He’s right – look after them.
So, with that rather serious bit of advice, Ladies and Gentlemen, here’s the News... I said. THE NEWS!
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O2’s in the NewsAllan McGowan [email protected]
New dublin O2 tops the world ranking
Rebuild and your fortunes will change
seems to have been the maxim of the O2
Dublin, the remodelled Point. In its first six
months of business, the venue has become
the most popular mid-size concert venue
in the world. The O2 Dublin reopened on
December 16 after a 14 month renovation
costing €80m.
Boosted by the appearances of acts like Brit-
ney Spears, Girls Aloud and Pink, the Dublin
facility has sold more tickets in the first six
months of the year than any other 10,000 to
15,000 capacity venues. The O2 Dublin can
accommodate 14,000, with an all-seated
event limit of 9,500. According to reliable
concert industry publication Pollstar, some
514,000 tickets were bought from January 1
to June 30.
Amongst venues of any size the O2 Dublin
is apparently the third busiest in the world,
after the O2 London with 1.2m admissions
and Manchester Evening News Arena with
750,000. Both these facilities hold more
than 20,000 people.
As well as increasing potential audiences by
60%, the refurbishment changed the exist-
ing rectangular layout to an amphitheatre
configuration with a 54 metre-long stage,
capable of hosting even the biggest touring
productions. In the past, acts like George
Michael and Madonna were unable to bring
their shows to the Point.
The closure of the Point left the capital with-
out a large concert venue, meaning many
acts bypassed the republic and went to Bel-
fast instead; this year its Odyssey Arena was
ranked sixth in the world, with sales of just
under 315,000 tickets.
VIP-News spoke to Mike Adamson, chief
executive of the O2 Dublin and Live Nation
about the success of the venue:
VIP-News: You must be very pleased with these first half year results, what do you think has brought about this success in par-ticular?
Mike Adamson: The O2 Dublin has sur-
passed all expectations with over 600,000
music fans through our doors within the
first half year of 2009. I believe that we at
Live Nation have created a unique venue
for the Irish music fans by building an am-
phitheatre style venue with close seat dis-
tances to the stage, good clear sightlines for
all and superb acoustic quality.
VIP-News: Many of the comments about the venue indicate that it already has character; something that newly built venues often take a while to acquire, how has this been achieved?
»The O2 was designed purelyfor music and therefore we did not have to compromise this design by
adding conflicting requirements for sport events«
- Mike Adamson
Mike Adamson: The O2 is unique in that we
have built the venue within the 1878 herit-
age walls of the old building while carrying
through the character of the old into the
new. This has provided our audiences with
an enhanced, warm and comfortable envi-
ronment with none of the clinical atmos-
phere associated with many new venues.
The O2 is the largest indoor purpose built
music concert venue in Europe. The O2 was
designed purely for music and therefore we
did not have to compromise this design by
adding conflicting requirements for sport
events.
VIP-News: Many territories, the US in par-ticular, have been finding it difficult to sell
O2 Arena - Dublin
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tickets, leading to discounting and other measures to maintain audience figures. Is this not the case in Ireland?
Mike Adamson: The Irish music fan con-
tributes greatly to The O2’s success. They
are amongst Europe’s highest per capita
figures for attending live concerts. So we
have a great music fan base in Ireland and
now we have the venue to match the fan’s
enthusiasm. Fortunately the acts followed
too with great performances from Beyon-
cé, Bob Dylan, Andrea Bocelli, Tina Turner,
AC/DC, Neil Young, Kings Of Leon, Pink,
Leonard Cohen to mention a few.
VIP-News: Have the artists been as im-pressed as the ticket buyers?
Mike Adamson: Our two important clients
– the audience and the artist have both
voiced their opinions with enthusiasm, in
that, it’s a great venue to play and a venue
for Irish music fans to be proud of. It’s all
about lifting the experience for both art-
ist and the audience and this I believe we
have achieved in a unique way with this
new style of venue. Well, the Romans were
also pretty successful with the amphithea-
tre concept - I’m surprised it has taken us in
the music industry so long to repeat their
success!
Acts scheduled for the second half of the
year include Fleetwood Mac, Green Day
and Elton John.
When the O2 World opened a year ago
Europe was given its most modern multi-
functional arena, on September 10th 2009,
the Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner
and operator of the O2 World, reviewed
the venue’s first year of operation which
saw 1.48 million guests attend 138 sport,
music and entertainment events.
“Our hopes and expectations have been ex-
celled”, says Detlef Kornett, CEO of the An-
schutz Entertainment Group in Germany.
“We welcomed an average of 10,000 people
per event, which means that the O2 World
has been well received in Berlin. It is difficult
to pick out any highlights, because so many
stars played at the arena, but I was very
pleased with the enormous attendance at
the ALBA Berlin and Eisbäre Berlin games.”
René Schuster, CEO of Telefónica o2 Ger-
many, commented, “More than a naming
right’ -this was our motto from the very be-
ginning. Helpful o2 Angels, a separate ‘Blue
Lane’ entrance, free drinks at the bar of the
Blue Room, seat upgrades and a velotaxi
service -we generated lots of benefits for the
visitors of the o2 World in general and in par-
ticular for our customers to double the posi-
tive experience on location. The experiences
during the last year have shown us, that this
is the right strategy: 80 per cent of all visitors
would recommend the o2 World. We are now
looking forward to the second year of the o2
World, in which we will surprise customers
with further highlights.”
Over the last twelve months the O2 World
hosted concerts with Metallica, Tina Turn-
er, Elton John, Alicia Keys, Udo Jürgens,
Leonard Cohen, Beyonce , Neil Young,
Coldplay, Britney Spears, Die Toten Hosen
and Herbert Grönemeyer. Also Germany´s
most successful tv entertainment-show
“Wetten, dass…?” was broadcast from the
arena and the music industry celebrated
its stars at the German music award show
“ECHO 2009”.
Sporting highlights featured NHL-and NBA
stars , and boxing World Champion Vitali
Klitschko celebrated his impressive come-
back against Samuel Peter. The Final Four
Tournament, comprising the European
Basketball elite, set new sportive and or-
ganizational standards with no other bas-
ketball team attracting more fans than Alba
Berlin. Ice Hockey team Eisbären Berlin won
another championship, and tripled their at-
tendance in their first year at the O2 World.
Changeovers were usually carried out over
night, since concerts and sport events take
place in a constant alternation. Mike Kel-
ler, O2 World General Manager explained,
“138 events in one year require that a con-
cert or game takes place every two or three
days. With 20 events per month we had our
highest event frequency last December and
January. This demands a high degree of flex-
ibility and a major operational readiness of
all involved parties. Alterations are needed
at nearly every concert or game and most of
the events entail some sort of special modi-
fications. Whether it’s 1,800 tons of sand,
which were scattered throughout the arena
previous to the “Night of the Jumps” and
removed firsthand afterwards; the 61 tons
of light-and sound-equipment, which were
required for Britney Spears only concert in
Germany or the 800 members of security
staff, who were responsible for the safety in
the arena during the Euroleague Final Four
basketball tournament. From the beginning
on we had no problems in taking on these
challenges due to the excellent co-operation
between promoters, service providers, public
authorities and the members of our team.”
The following essential facts indicate in a
very real way how audiences have taken
to the O2 World: More than 1 million cups
of beer were drunk and 100,000 fried and
curried sausages and 40,000 pretzels were
sold at the 138 events!
Highlights of the O2 World agenda for
the next few months feature Green Day,
Depeche Mode, Fleetwood Mac, the Back-
street Boys, MUSE, aha, Mario Barth, the
MTV Europe Music Awards and Arthur
Abraham´s boxing match against Jermain
Taylor in the course of the Super-Six-Tour-
nament.
A Year of O2 world, BerlinAllan McGowan [email protected]
René Schuster
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Berlin Stayed Open for BusinessAllan McGowan [email protected]
According to data released by Live
Nation Inc, Madonna has smashed
her own record for top-grossing
tour by a solo artist by playing more
shows in bigger venues.
The ‘Sticky & Sweet’ world tour came
to an end in Tel Aviv on September
2, having taken $408 million after
playing to more than 3.5 million fans
at 85 shows, way up on the 2006
‘Confessions’ tour which grossed
$194 million from 1.2 million fans at
60 shows. A Live Nation spokesman
said the previous trek featured many
arena stops, while this latest one
centred on bigger stadiums.
The Rolling Stones still hold the
record for the top grossing tour
overall, the 2005-2007 ‘Bigger Bang’
drew 4.7 million people to 144 shows
raking in $558 million.
Madonna Out GrossesAllan McGowan [email protected]
Many in the industry may have the
impression that this year’s Popkomm
cancellation left the fine City of Berlin
bereft of showcase and conference
activity. However various companies
and individuals decided that this was
not to be the case. During the original
Popkomm dates Sep. 16-19, various
music events focused on live music
showcases and the business took
place in Berlin.
The first ‘all2gethernow’ conference
took place; Berlin Music Days (BerMu-
Da) presented an extensive electroni-
ca showcase festival, also Helsinki in
Berlin was presented by the Finnish
Music Export office as was Nordic Rev-
elations, a Showcase Event presenting
Scandinavian rock and metal-talent.
Network Europe, the Association for
agents, bookers, promoters and tal-
ent buyers working in the live music
business in Europe, went ahead with
its 2nd Annual General Meeting this
year on Sep. 17, and organised a show-
case night in the Maschinenhaus in
the Kulturbrauerei – one of the usual
Popkomm venues, featuring Katrine
Ottosen (DNK), Balthazar (BEL) and
Heike Has The Giggles (ITA).
With none of the VIP writers in place,
we are grateful to Rob Berends of Pa-
perclip Agency in the Netherlands, in
Berlin in his capacity as Board Member
of Network Europe, for this report, and
his additional comments on future
Berlin plans (see following item)
The first two all2gethernow days
(Wed/Thu) were the camp-days (bar-
camps, as they call them). I witnessed
a bit of the Wednesday afternoon.
The set-up made me think of Network
Europe meetings (round table discus-
sions), if managed properly a much
more effective way than a panel be-
hind a table on a platform I believe.
What I witnessed was maybe not per-
fect in set-up, but it worked well. The
topics and the time spent on these
showed a great, urgent, need for an-
swers to the lack of income and con-
trol in the present ways of distributing
music (Internet). It made sense to me
that these discussions were mainly
attended and organised by non-live-
music people.
Network europe Meeting
Our Members Meeting yesterday was
not very well attended, but highly
productive. The following changes
are among those to be expected, but
are not formal decisions yet because
those NE-members not present here
in Berlin still have a chance to vote via
e-mail:
NE will focus much more on coopera-
tion and exchange of information, and
bands/artists, throughout the year,
backed up by a much more frequent
News Letter that goes out to our entire
mailing list (members and non-mem-
bers), with room for news from all the
members. This and other activities and
priorities will make NE focus less on the
two Member Meetings each year (al-
though these will still happen).
The two Member Meetings a year will
be much more a platform to introduce
people to each other and to do busi-
ness, exchange talent and think inter-
nally.
Speed Meetings
Our Members Meetings will be com-
plemented by open Speed Meetings,
where non-members are more than
welcome to join NE, and will be global,
not solely European. NE will choose
one focus-country each year and will
have a third larger Member Meeting in
that country. There will be one annual
Madonna
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Membership Fee, rather than an annual
Membership Fee, plus separate Meeting
Registration Fees. For most members, the
yearly costs to NE will be about the same.
NE will introduce four different levels
of Fees (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%) for inde-
pendent companies from countries in the
world with GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
below EUR 10.000/20.000/30.000 or above
EUR 30.000. This will stimulate a true pan-
global development of NE’s membership
list. Those who were members in 2009 will
get a substantial discount in 2010, those
attending Member Meetings in 2010 or
later years will get a substantial discount
in the following year.
NE’s constitution has been rewritten thor-
oughly to reflect proposals for improve-
ment made by NE’s former and current
Board and NE’s Auditors. This means that
the prevalent position of the Members
Meeting has been described more clearly,
that voting via e-mail has been introduced
as legitimate, and that the minimum
number of Board members is now 3 (not
5). NE has more to announce, and will do
so at a press-conference during EuroSonic
Noorderslag in Groningen in January.
For instance, we’re working on a new
name for the Association. Bar the e-mail-
votes still to follow, it looks like the cur-
rent Board (Attilio Perissinotti, Thomas
Ryjord, Rob Berends) and the current Au-
ditors (Alessandro Ceccarelli a.k.a. Cecca,
Hilde Spille) have been re-elected.
Network Europe
www.networkeurope.net
The team behind all2gethernow
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Christof Huber on elMF and YouropeManfred Tari [email protected]
All The Worlds (ATW), Universal Mu-
sic’s live music events joint venture
presents its inaugural and world pre-
miere F1 ROCKS event alongside the
Formula One nighttime grand prix
in Singapore from September 24th-
26th, supported by LG Electronics.
The event aims to bring together the
world’s most popular annual sport-
ing series with live by some of the
world’s biggest acts, to attract both
motor racing and music fans alike.
Amongst others Beyoncé, Black
Eyed Peas, ZZ Top, Simple Minds,
N*E*R*D and Chinese pop legend
Jacky Cheung will perform at Fort
Canning Park, Singapore. The show
will also feature guest appearances
from top FORMULA ONE drivers and
celebrities.
First F1 rOCKS event for SingaporeAllan McGowan [email protected]
VIP-News caught up with the very busy
Christof Huber of St Gallen Festival to
get an update on his ongoing work
with Festival organisation, Yourope
and the future of the European Live
Music Forum.
VIP-News: What is currently going on with the ELMF?
Christof Huber: Well, there are plans
to put the association into hiberna-
tion. We are discussing this right now
within the remaining board. And we
hope to have a proper solution very
soon. Currently the ELMF is not that
active but, so far, no final decisions
have been made regarding putting it
into hibernation.
VIP-News: And what’s going on at Yourope?
Huber: The situation at Yourope is
completely different and is, I would
say, very good. We have now more
than 60 members within this associa-
tion. The next planned projects to be
held at Bucks Chiltern New University
in the UK are the 8th edition of a two-
day seminar concerning health and
safety which has already gained over
50 registrations – a big success I would
say, and one day before this, on Sep-
tember 23rd, we will hold the second
sustainability seminar in cooperation
with Green and Clean and greenerfes-
tival.com, which now has over 25 reg-
istrations. From my point of view these
projects are doing very well and head-
ing in the right direction.
Then there are the first European Fes-
tival Awards. I just returned from dis-
cussing the next steps for this in Lon-
don. As you may know, the European
Festival Awards in cooperation with
Virtual Festivals Europe and the Eu-
rosonic Festival will take place at the
Grand Theatre in Groningen during
Noorderslag/Eurosonic on Wednesday,
January 13th. We are now working to
prepare the launch of this award-show,
which is a big event for us at Yourope.
It is an exciting project for us in order to
strengthen the profile for festivals and
to bring them more closely together. I
consider this a very important step for-
ward for Yourope.
VIP-News: What is Yourope doing on a political level? How would you like to see the political profile of Festivals in Europe shaping up?
Huber: This is still a difficult topic which
the ELMF was originally supposed to
tackle, but was probably not fully pre-
pared. We now have to consider which
direction we should go in.
VIP-News: When it comes to creative in-dustries, there are already some coun-tries or governments that are bringing live music and the tourism industry to-gether. Are there any planned activities that have this topic on the agenda?
Huber: The territories, as far as I am
aware, that talk about creative indus-
tries are mainly the UK, France and
Spain. It is difficult for Yourope as an as-
sociation to work in this area on a pan-
European level. Some of our members
are already doing this individually and
really successfully and we will certainly
discuss this issue. This could involve
something like the exchange of infor-
mation and looking at how other fes-
tivals are handling this, how they get
funding and how they get sponsors
etc. We will have to see. It is certainly a
F1 Rocks, Singapore
Christof Huber
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topic that is often discussed, but I have to
say it is not at the top of our agenda.
VIP-News: For many years Yourope was represented at the ILMC, but in 2009, for the first time Yourope wasn’t as active as in the past. Are you likely to reconsider be-ing more active at the Conference?
Huber: Let’s correct this. We have always
held our general assembly on Friday morn-
ing at the ILMC. It was just a matter of not
being involved in the conference in terms
of the meetings and panels. We discussed
this internally and if I may venture an opin-
ion, I would wish that the ILMC would un-
dertake a little more effort to invest in its
conference program to serve its guests and
should not only expect its delegates to do
so. I also have the feeling that a lot of dele-
gates of the ILMC are more interested in the
bar than in valuable conference sessions.
VIP-News: Does that mean that you are pretty pleased which what you achieve in Groningen in the Netherlands?
Huber: This is of course a different situ-
ation. We certainly do have a very good
relationship with the promoters of Eu-
rosonic/Noorderslag. We have a long-term
cooperation going on with them and we
always try to get involved and to develop
projects there. A very good example of this
is that we have even extended our part-
nership with them and are doing an extra
evening for the European Festival Awards.
It’s definitely the event which most of our
Yourope members attend. It is just a per-
fect platform for us to meet and talk, and
to do things together such as a health &
safety seminars, panels and meetings. It
has beeb a really good cooperation since
year one of Yourope.
VIP-News: There are new attempts in terms of getting funding from the Euro-pean Commission for ETEP 2010. Are you involved in these proceedings?
Huber: Due to the ongoing contact we are
involved in the process. They keep me in-
formed of the situation, what they trying
to achieve, and what kind of influence this
could have on the numbers of festivals
participating. We’ve just met in London
and had a whole day discussing all the is-
sues of ETEP (European Talent Exchange
Programme) and the Eurosonic Festival.
VIP-News: But in general I guess Europe is quiet pleased with the results ETEP has achieved so far?
Huber: Yourope is an important partner
for ETEP and is even a founding partner
for the project. We are therefore in regu-
lar contact with Ruud Berends, the project
manager for ETEP who keeps us informed
about the current developments. We were
involved since the first edition and helped
in putting ETEP together. It certainly is a
success story, and that’s what I like about
our cooperation with Eurosonic/Noorders-
lag. We’ve tried and achieved something
rather than talking about it for 10 years. It
is all about getting your stuff together and
just getting on with it, this can then lead
to a success.
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Contesting GeMA Concert ratesManfred Tari [email protected]
In February 2009 the German copyright
collection society drastically increased its
rates for concerts, or at least it aimed to do
so. The German concert industries associa-
tions IDKV and VDKV of course immediate-
ly protested these rate increases. VIP-News
spoke with Jens Michow the president of
the IDKV about the current situation of the
rate debate in Germany.
VIP-News: What is the current state of play regarding the negotiation between the concert associations and GEMA?
»This leads to the conclusionthat it no longer makes any sense
to promote concerts at all«
- Jens Michow
Jens Michow: Well, we just had another
talk in Munich. So far we are just in the
middle of the decision at the so-called ar-
bitration court of the German Patentamt.
This is not a real court but it issues a pre-
liminary court decision supposed to find
a solution which considers both opinions
and both parts for this finding. At a mat-
ter of fact everybody should know that
GEMA raised the 1.87 net rates for the
use of repertoire at concerts to 8%, an in-
crease of more than four and a half times.
With this in mind it very understandable
that no one in our business and certainly
no promoter can live with it. We institut-
ed a survey by the GFK, a well know mar-
ket research company, that showed that
for most concert companies that the net
profit result for the average promoter is
about 9 percent of revenue before taxes.
So of this 9 percent before taxes, promot-
ers are supposed to give away 8%. This
leads to the conclusion that it no longer
makes any sense to promote concerts at
all.
VIP-News: But nevertheless, in other coun-tries such as Switzerland and Austria, as well as in the Netherlands there is a much higher copyright rates for concerts. In the case of Austria it is about 8.9 percent, it is almost the same in Switzerland and it’s 7 percent in the Netherlands.
Jens Michow: It is actually not. Let’s start
with the UK, this country is with no doubt
one of the most important countries prob-
ably within the world and at least in Eu-
rope for the export and import of music,
but you have to pay only 3 percent to PRS.
If you look at Switzerland, Austria or even
in the Scandinavian countries, you find out
that as we have to, you have root fees to
pay to the copyright collection societies
as a promoter you have several opportu-
nities for deductions. Our rates so far are
at 3.9 percent, and when I told you before
that we only paid 1.87 percent, this figure
includes all deductions that are allowed to
us, these deductions considered the costs
of staging a concert, and were considered
for promoters that do more than one con-
cert, then promoters that do at least 20
concerts a year, get another 20% percent
reduction and so on. And these deduc-
tions worked out at the 1.87 %, which we
finally paid. So they may have been con-
sidered to be all right for many years in the
past, but nobody can tell us any reason
why it should not be this way any longer.
At least the measure for what is appropri-
ate, because the courts will always say ap-
propriate, was what happened in the past.
So when it comes down to it I would say
1.87 net or 3.9 basic is not enough. We are
always prepared to negotiate something
that is reasonable, but more reasonable
than they consider it to be now, no prob-
lem but to raise it up to 4.5 more as it is
now, is without any reason and is just total-
ly beyond wherever you should place it.
VIP-News: What about the arbitrary court decision, is it binding for both parties?
Jens Michow: No, not all. It is a proposal,
a proposal for both parties. At least it is a
measure that clever thinking people might
think to be appropriate. So whatever hap-
pens one of the sides will go to the normal
court, which is the Oberlandesgericht in
Munich. And then if it does not fit our needs
we will even go to the highest court in Ger-
many which is called the BGH and that
might take years and this is why we went
to GEMA, which is not only criticized by the
promoters at the moment, but is criticized
from many different sides in a petition,
someone we don’t even know, appears
from the club area having raised more
than a hundred thousand signatures say-
ing GEMA has to change their system. Ok,
that has nothing to do with us, point one,
point two, there are people who are writing
stories saying the GEMA has to batch every-
thing together, nothing to do with us. This
only shows that many sides at the moment
are not satisfied with the GEMA system. So
we just said recently to GEMA it might be
appropriate that you consider how great
the damage might be if all this goes on for
the next 3 years even, because you never
know when the highest court in Germany
will even have a date to hear us. So as a mat-
ter of fact we can only suggest to GEMA to
think very, very carefully how bad things
could get if they don’t find a reasonable
compromise between both parties.
VIP-News: When will the arbitrary court make it’s ruling?
Jens Michow: Middle of October - that is
what we also told the GEMA yesterday in
Munich, you don’t have much time. They
should talk to their review board I guess
because they made the decision to raise it
up to ten percent less then twenty percent
for all those who are part of an association.
They get 20 percent less so that is why we
almost discuss about the 8 %. As a matter
of fact they should talk to their supervisory
board, I’m pretty sure this decision about
ten or twenty percent was made in 2007.
If they would go back the executive board,
then would go back to the supervisory
board people may have changed their
minds in the past two years anyhow. So we
suggested they research sincerely with the
greatest care whether they should not re-
vise their diplomacy of the past two years,
and negotiate with us.
Jens Michow
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Berlin Music week 2010Allan McGowan [email protected]
According to a press release the city of
Berlin will host the inaugural edition of
Berlin Music Week in September 2010.
The event is supposedly set to take over
from Popkomm, which had been set to
take place this October in Berlin, but had
been cancelled due, some say, to a lack of
interest. Organizers had hoped to revive
the event next year, but now it is said that
it will be folded into this new event with
substantial backing from the Berlin gov-
ernment. Organizers hope to see a signifi-
cant endowment for the event from the
national government as well.
The owners of PopKomm, Messe Berlin,
are owned by the City, and have it ap-
pears been encouraged, possibly ordered
(?) to cooperate in 2010 with all2gether-
now, BerMuDa (Berlin Music Days), the
Berlin Music Commission and others. Rob
Berends, in Berlin for the Network Europe
meeting, has been informed that Daniel
Barkowski will for now replace event di-
rector Katja Gross (née Bittner) who is now
on her second maternity (Congratula-
tions from all at VIP!). Also Klaus Gropper,
Patricia Schwan, Dirk Schade and earlier
Constanze Althoff have left the team. As
Rob says it seems that a lot has happened
at PopKomm and Berlin Messe!
The press release also states that Berlin
Music Week will include a music confer-
ence with Barcamp, a trade show format,
individual events such as industry meet-
ings and events organized by associa-
tions and networks, and public perform-
ance events such as an electronic music
festival at venues around the city. Organ-
izers are planning an extensive national
and international marketing effort and a
number of organizations have signed on
as partners, including the Berlin Music
Commission, the Club Commission and
the VUT (An indie label trade association)
Labcom, Media Board, Popkomm Berlin
organizers and clubs.
“Berlin enjoys an excellent worldwide repu-
tation as a musical metropolis - and we
intend to expand further. The brand Berlin
Music Week is a crucial strategic Initiative
for Berlin’s music industry: It concentrates
vitality and diversity of the industry.” said
Berlin Senator for Economics, Technol-
ogy and Women (?) Harald Wolf in a state-
ment.
Popkomm
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ASTA Backs OFT FraudulentTicketing web sites InitiativeAllan McGowan [email protected]
The Association of Secondary Ticket Agents
(ASTA) is backing the ‘Just Tick It’ campaign
proposed by the U.K. Office of Fair Trading
to combat the growing problem presented
by fraudulent ticketing Web sites. An online
survey of 3,000 U.K. consumers revealed
that one in 12 ticket buyers said they have
been caught out by scam ticket sites, with
80% of those in the past year.
The OFT ‘Just Tick It’ campaign warns con-
sumers about these sites and offers advice
on how to check whether they are legiti-
mate, outlining six guidance checks for a
Web site offering tickets, including details
of their refund policy, company contacts
and other users’ verdicts on the service.
The Web site www.consumerdirect.gov.
uk/ticketscams outlines full consumer
guidance.
Graham Burns, chairman of ASTA, wel-
comed the campaign and said in a state-
ment, “We hope the Office of Fair Trading’s
new Web site gives the consumer more
tools to use in the fight against rogue Web
sites. It is heartening to see that the OFT has
grasped the nettle and is prepared to work
alongside other agencies, including ASTA,
to eradicate the crooks.” ASTA was formed
in 2005 in response to the increase in
rogue sites failing to deliver tickets.
However the secondary ticketing sec-
tor are not all in favour of the campaign,
Viagogo is not a member of ASTA, and in
a statement CEO Eric Baker commented,
“This is nothing new to secondary ticket-
ing. In fact, for the last three years we have
been advising fans on how to avoid getting
ripped off in the secondary market by of-
fering a safe and secure ticket exchange.”
He estimated that in the past two years
concert and festival goers in the U.K. have
been defrauded to the tune of £15 million
($25 million) by fraudulent merchants sell-
ing fake tickets.
The month-long Oxjam festival begins on the 28th September
with a series of exclusive, intimate performances from stars in-
cluding Editors, VV Brown, Basement Jaxx, Fatboy Slim, Just Jack,
Nitin Sawhney and legendary drummer Tony Allen at a specially
converted Oxjam shop in London.
Editors singer Tom Smith said: “We’ve been supporting Oxjam for
years now, so it’s really exciting for us to be a part of their biggest
music event. Putting on shows in Oxjam’s high street stores is a great
idea, these places are part of everyone’s daily lives these days, come
September they’ll also be the hottest ticket in town.”
These shows, limited to just 150 audience members per night, run
from Monday 28 September to Thursday 1 October, The charity
shop gigs officially launch the Oxjam month of music. Oxjam is a
festival with a difference: thousands of fundraising music events
are put on by ordinary people – from large-scale festivals to lo-
cal sponsored busks – making it the biggest line-up of any mu-
sic festival in the UK. As a further pledge of support to the cause,
WeGotTickets will be implementing their donation module across
the site throughout October, allowing ticket buyers for any event
to make a donation to Oxjam.
Since 2006, more than 36,000 musicians have played to an audi-
ence of over 750,000 people at almost 3,000 Oxjam events, rais-
ing in excess of £1 million to fight poverty around the world. The
highlight of the month-long festival will be the Oxjam Takeover
on Sunday 25 October, when more than 2,000 musicians will fill
over 150 venues in more than 20 cities in a single day to raise funds
for Oxjam. This year the festival will be helping poor people cope
with the devastating effects of climate change. As well as raising
hundreds of thousands of pounds for Oxjam’s work, gig goers will
be painting their faces blue as part of a massive visual statement
to the UK government to take action on climate change before
it’s too late.
Oxjam Festival Helps Poor People Cope withthe effects of Climate ChangeAllan McGowan [email protected]
Graham Burns
Kaiser Chiefs supports Oxjam
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GRONINGENTHE NETHERLANDS
THE EUROPEAN MUSIC CONFERENCE AND SHOWCASE FESTIVAL
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ANDARTIST SUBMISSION OPEN!
WWW.EUROSONICNOORDERSLAG.NL
2003 the 1st year of ETEP, presented a total of 53 shows with 23 artists from 8 countries playing at 23 festivals in 13 countries.2004 presented a total of 84 shows with 35 artists from 13 countries playing at 36 festivals in 13 countries.2005 brought us a total of 89 shows with 39 artists from 14 countries playing at 41 festivals in 16 countries.2006 brought us a total of 156 shows with 48 artists from 12 countries playing at 50 festivals in 17 countries.2007 brought us a total of 182 shows with 62 artists from 18 countries playing at 55 festivals in 19 countries2008 brought us a total of 187 shows with 64 artists from 16 countries playing at 58 festivals in 18 countries2009 brought us a total of 122 shows (and counting) with 54 artists from 15 countries playing at 60 festivals in 19 countries.
Per may 2009 a total of 873 shows by 325 artists, excluding the spin off shows at non ETEP festivals all over the world.
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GRONINGENTHE NETHERLANDS
THE EUROPEAN MUSIC CONFERENCE AND SHOWCASE FESTIVAL
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ANDARTIST SUBMISSION OPEN!
WWW.EUROSONICNOORDERSLAG.NL
EuroSonic Noorderslag 2009 Total number of visitors: 18.000Nationalities present: 34Professional participants: 2.650Artists performing: 259EBU Radio stations present: 22International festivals present: 123ETEP participant festivals: 59Number of stages @ EuroSonic: 32Number of stages @ Noorderslag: 9Network Europe members: 38Number of European journalists present: 140Panels and meetings: 100
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we Got Tickets – Access to Anything!Allan McGowan [email protected]
VIP-Booking.com clients and the readers of VIP-News rep-resent all levels of the European live music industry, and we like to think that we cater for all. However, we are very aware that the small and mid level operators need all the help they can get in difficult times. After all these promot-ers, agents, venues etc are hopefully the foundations for
the future of our industry. Whenever possible we will report on innovations or services that we think can help improve business for this sector; WeGotTickets fit into this category. At the moment they operate solely in the UK but are keen to discuss the use of their systems with venues and promoters throughout Europe.
WeGotTickets are a UK ticketing agency
catering specifically for small to medium-
sized venues and promoters. Today they
work with over 3,000 venues and promot-
ers across the UK, operating on the maxim,
“Because we came from where you are, we
understand your needs.”
The developers of the WeGotTickets sys-
tem started off as venue managers, pro-
moters and artist managers, around about
the year 2000 it occurred to them that an
online ticketing outlet would be a great ad-
vantage for the shows they were involved
in. The only problem was that none of the
existing ticketing concerns catered for
the their level of business. So they created
their own system, a paperless ticket system
based on reference numbers, then a new
and strange idea, now commonplace. We-
GotTickets was fully launched in 2002 when
they created an online box office for The
Zodiac (now O2 Academy) in Oxford.
Because they used the site to sell their
own tickets, they knew exactly what was
needed; the service was so popular and
worked so well that other venues and pro-
moters started using it, liked it, and recom-
mended it. WeGotTickets has continued to
develop the site based on feedback from
their ticket buying customers, promoters
and venues, aspiring to make it uniquely
user-friendly to both ticket buyers and sell-
ers. The company’s 10% maximum ticket
commission rate has helped to lower fees
across the business.
Facts & Figures
A couple of years ago when Feargal Shar-
key, now head of UK Music, was charged to
set up the live music forum by the Govern-
ment’s Department of Culture, Media and
Sport (DCMS) to investigate just what was
going on with live music in the UK, findings
supposedly indicated that some 4000 pub-
lic live music performances, some of them
free, from busking on up, took place every-
day. This seemed to be very much a ‘guessti-
mate’, I figured that WeGotTickets might be
able to come up with a more accurate esti-
mation of what was really going on in the
small to mid level world of UK live music.
»Essentially I think they showthat we serve a thriving sector ofthe live entertainment industrythat sits way below the level ofthe events serviced by the likes
of Ticketmaster and See tickets«
- Dave Newton
Dave Newton, co-founder of the system
and the company kindly provided the fol-
lowing report, “Between the first of July ’08
and the 30th of June ’09, 50% of the events
we had on sale had a face-value of £7 or less,
50% of the tickets sold had a face-value of
£10 or less. We had a total of 22,500 Events
on sale across 1750 distinct venues/promot-
ers selling 500,000 tickets to 140,000 distinct
customers.” I asked Dave what he thought
these statistics indicated, he told me, “Es-
sentially I think they show that we serve a
thriving sector of the live entertainment
industry that sits way below the level of the
events serviced by the likes of Ticketmaster
and See tickets.”
Charity to Comedy
Whether or not this whole sector is grow-
ing, WeGotTickets definitely are, as Dave
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Newton says, “Sitting still is just not an op-
tion anywhere within the Events Industry
these days!”. He continues, “We think of
a ticket as a way to gain access to almost
anything, and although we sell many tickets
to music and arts events we can sell tickets
to ALL events, performances, exhibitions,
school events, courses, gatherings, battle re-
enactments, fan clubs, conferences, festivals
– music, food and ale, sport etc, etc.”
WeGotTickets are exclusively selling tick-
ets for this year’s Oxjam music festival (see
story in this issue) and have pledged to
donate 50% of their booking fee back to
the charity. Another venture with a chari-
table element is a partnership with Mak-
ing Music, the UK’s largest umbrella arts
association representing the voluntary
music sector. The new site will showcase
and sell tickets for the events promoted
by Making Music’s 2,800 member groups,
whose number include choirs, orchestras,
music clubs, samba groups and represent
over 200,000 volunteer musicians and
music lovers. Making Music members
promote over 10,000 events each year.
WeGotTickets will make available their
unique donation module, also in use for
Oxjam, allowing ticket buyers to make an
extra contribution to selected causes at
the time of purchase, to help raise funds
for Making Music’s projects and have
pledged 20% of booking fees to help the
voluntary sector.
Last month saw the launch of WeGot-
Comedy.com, announced at the Edin-
burgh Festival fringe, where WeGotTickets
worked with the Five Pound Fringe to sell
tickets for over forty different shows, this
is the UK’s first ticketing web site solely
dedicated to comedy events. The Compa-
ny now sell on average over 6,000 comedy
tickets a month, generating around 15% of
the company’s total revenue, despite rep-
resenting just 10% of events on sale. Dave
Newton comments, “The live comedy cir-
cuit in the UK is bursting with hundreds of
innovative independent promoters, each
seeking to put on quality events at sen-
sible prices – the perfect fit for our online
box office services. We expect this area to
grow rapidly in the coming months as the
comedy circuit follows the music industry
in recognising the many benefits of sell-
ing advance tickets.
Improvements
A new set of developments to have re-
cently been unveiled aimed at improving
the functionality of the website. These
include enabling event organisers to add
their own promo codes to events, allowing
them greater control over pricing and in
creating special offers for consumers. Also
promoters can now add customer market-
ing surveys to events, allowing them to
build up a clearer picture of who their au-
dience is and how and where they heard
about the show.
For promoters of larger events or those
with extra requirements, WeGotTickets
has added new portals specifically to ca-
ter for their needs and allow greater con-
tinuity between their own websites and
WeGotTickets. Events recently to have
taken advantage of this feature include
the Summer Sundae Weekender and Truck
Festival.
Dave Newton concludes, “We’re really
proud to be raising the bar within the ticket-
ing sector once again. We’ve always invested
heavily in the IT capacity of our company
and this has enabled us both to implement
our own ideas for development and to react
to the suggestions we receive from our cli-
ents - the venues and promoters.”
Future plans include the launch of a Cli-
ents Forum, and possible expansion be-
yond the UK, as Dave says, “I’d still like to
see all these developments benefit not just
the UK market but other territories in Europe
and beyond.”
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dow Jones & Co Helps live Nation Shares
There is still no definite news indicating
that the merger between Live Nation and
Ticketmaster will receive approval from
cartel authorities in the US or Europe, nor is
there any significant business news indicat-
ing that Live Nation will soon become an
extraordinary profit centre. But neverthe-
less Live Nation and also the Ticketmaster
share price benefits from a general market
recovery, which is best demonstrated by
the recent performance of stock market
indices such as the Dow Jones, FTS 100 or
DAX.
The only reports based on hard facts are
the sale of Live Nation properties in Boston,
The Boston Opera House, Orpheum Thea-
tre and Paradise were sold for $22.5 million
in cash and a 5 year long ‘earn out’ deal.
Michael Rapino, Chief Executive Officer of
Live Nation commented on the deal, say-
ing, “In our continuing focus on de-lever-
aging our balance sheet, 50% of the closing
proceeds will be applied as a permanent
reduction in term loans, with the balance to
remain available for general working capi-
tal purposes.”
Since August 17 the Live Nation share rose
from $5.83 up to $8.60.
Ticketmaster and the share price recovery 2.0
Like the Live Nation share Ticketmaster
went up from $8.67 on August 17 to $12.14.
This more or less indicates some sort of
confidence in the market.
Occasionally this is also driven by research
reports and at least in terms of Ticketmas-
ter there is currently one by Thomas Weisel
Research that predicted a price target of
$12 at the beginning of September. The
analyst argues, “The reason for the upgrade
is that as the Department of Justice deci-
sion on its pending merger with Live Nation
nears, we believe that the company’s com-
petitive position has improved.”
However this optimism is to be interpreted,
and whether the merger will be approved
or not, Ticketmaster seems at least eager
to undertake some action against ticket
scalping. In news reports it says that Tick-
etmaster now asks for an ID- and a credit
card when ticket holders show up on the
venue.
To facilitate this Ticketmaster have devel-
oped a new exchange system, or more cor-
rectly, just another resale platform which
was launched earlier on this month.
deutsche entertainment downsizes its company board
Ingo Stein, the former CFO (Chief Financial
Officer) left DEAG earlier on in September.
Christian Dieckmann, the COO (Chief Op-
erating Officer) will also take over Stein’s
duties.
Since DEAG halved its amounts on out-
standing shares in August, the share price
since August went down from 2.40 to 1.97
euro.
CTS eventim – The Performance Surge continues
No big news flows to report in the last cou-
ple of weeks. Nevertheless the share price
rises. On September 14 the share peaked at
a high of 33.99 Euro but since then came
down to 30.96 Euro.
Mama Group – Staying level
Amazingly since July 30 this share has move
neither up nor down. There had been some
trades reported but nevertheless those had
no impact on the share price curve. Only in
very recent days has the share price gone
down from 4.75 to 4.5 Pence.
Business NewsManfred Tari [email protected]
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Admiral TTerritory: Worldwide Period: 2010 - 2011 Agency: CARAMBA Spectacles Agent: Clotaire Phone: +33 1 4218 1718 E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: www.caramba.fr
dionne warwick & GroupTerritory: Tours Europe Period: Late November 2009 Agency: Diamond Artistes Agent: Denis Vaughan Phone: +44 (0) 207 486 5353 E-mail: [email protected]
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Briganti di Terra d’OtrantoTerritory: Worldwide Period: Generally Available Agency: Maffucci Music Agent: Canio Rosario Maffucci Phone: +39 339 485 8107 E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: www.italianworldmusic.com
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Red Entertainment Agency is proud
to announce representation of JEF-
FREy OSbORNE
Jeffrey Osborne is one of the great
R&B soul vocalist of our time.
Known worldwide for their hits:
“On The Wings of Love”
“Stay With Me Tonight”
“You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo
Song)”
“Don’t You Get So Mad”
“Love Power”
“Don’t Stop”
“She’s On The Left”
We are seeking dates in Europe for early 2010.
Please contact Carlos Keyes for available dates.
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1-212-563-7575
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THE FlAMING ARTS is leading rock/metal agency working on tours and gigs in such countries like Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic States
and etc during 5 years and has good team including people from marketing researches, pr agents, book-keepers, drivers, hotels booking
company and etc.
We have serious contracts with many leading music media in Russia like major magazines (not musical only), biggest music channels,
who translate videos of our artists and make massive announcements of our shows, radio-companies.
We are working with different clubs in many cities and towns of Eastern Europe and after marketing researches made by our managers
we propose the best club options for bands we work with.
2008 is going to become new era for our company, because of new activities will be developed: 1. Tours and gigs in Eastern Europe for
non rock/metal artists. 2. Booking of our international rock/metal artists worldwide 3. Music management service and new releases
promotion for artists in Eastern Europe.
We are very serious with our music business and ready to negotiate all conditions with you and pay attention for all your wishes in every
single case.
