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It’s been freezing here – how is it where you

are? If it’s any warmer I’m coming to visit -

now! Apart from the snow and the icy wind

we also have to cope with the breakdown of

our transport systems – it took me over three

hours to get back to Brighton from London

after the ILMC debrief - it should take an

hour! Maybe this year’s International Live

Music Conference’s time travel theme had

something to do with it. Also, as I’m laid low

with the heavy cold – ‘the lurgy’ as all those

who have contracted it recently refer to it – I

may have to apologize for a possible lack of

coherence in this Musing…

Anyway – perhaps the green shoots of

spring will show themselves before I leave

for Canadian Music Week next week – at the

moment it’s warmer in Toronto than it is here.

Right, enough of that complaining, for now

anyway… After all, apart from getting there

when that mysterious white stuff falls from

the sky, in terms of places to live, Brighton,

as all you Great Escape visitors will probably

have discovered, is not so bad. In fact I

noticed in a recent announcement that

one of our local rock stars, that fine chap

Roger Daltrey of The Who is to become the

first ever patron of the Brighton Institute

of Modern Music (BIMM), a reference to

that immortal line spoken by the main

characte r as portrayed by actor Phil Daniels

in ‘Quadrophenia ’, “I mean, nothing seems

right, apart from Brighton.” – You see how I

managed to cheer myself up there?

In his new role Daltrey comments on one

of the topics discussed at the recent 25th

edition of ILMC (see reports in this issue),

that of the ‘grass roots’:

“BIMM is a fantastic platform for talented

young musicians who are given the

opportunity to thrive and grow within the

music industry. I am very happy to support

new music in the UK and BIMM is helping to

develop and nurture future talent organically

and successfully.”

This is of course an essential subject, and

a concern, which very much interests VIP

News, we’re very keen to hear of all efforts

and enterprises involving the support and

development of new talent – so please keep

us informed.

Talking of ILMC, the whole VIP team is

recovering from a sold out and very full on

25th edition of the International Live Music

Conference at London’s Royal Garden Hotel.

The theme this year was time travel which of

course allowed for a review of the fortunes

of the live business over the last quarter

of a century through the archives and the

memories and observations of delegates of

an event that was originally intended to be

a one-off, and which actually readdressed

the enterprises of a set of loosely connected

entrepreneurs as the live music ‘industry’,

something we all take for granted today.

Over twenty of this year’s delegates had

attended every edition – and a good majority

of these were still coherent!

Of course the overall business is even older

than 25 years, and still active and interesting

– amongst the big boys AEG has decided

to take itself off the market – so if you

were thinking of buying the Corporation

– too late! – The Madison Square Garden

Company has sold all its Live Nation shares

– and it looks as though David Bowie has

reformed!

Right – while I’m still capable – yes, that

was a sneeze you heard and thanks for the

Gesundheits - Ladies and Gentlemen – The

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Objections to Nationalistic Band at German Music Award Manfred Tari [email protected]

An Italian band from The Tyrol that consider themselves a German

band and a “not amused” former First Lady from France are the

two acts that outline this year’s political profile for the German

Music Award, Echo.

A nomination for the Tyrolean band Freiwild in the category

“Rock/Alternative National” led to other German acts MIA and

Kraftklub refusal to be nominated in the same category. Both acts

expressed their objection to this controversial band which sells very

successfully in Germany.

According to the statutes of the Echo-Award the award criteria is

apparently supposed to be defined by sales-success. For the Echo-

organizers it isn’t the first time that these criteria have enabled an

act with a politically far right mindset to be nominated. In 2008 the

also highly successful act Boehse Onkelz was nominated but finally

not invited to the Echo Award Show.

While Freiwild claim that they do not support right wing ideas, the

band is heavily criticized for their distinctively nationalistic lyrics.

Earlier this year the German music magazine Visions withdrew its

media-partnership for the With Full Force-Festival when the festival

announced the booking of the band.

However, shortly before the event on March 21 the Echo-organizers

announced the appearance of the French singer Carla Bruni, the

former First lady of France when her husband Nicolas Sarkozy was

still on duty. Bruni will present her new song “Mon Raymond”

which apparently is a love song for her husband. On her new album

“Little French Songs” she also included a protest song regarding

the current French Premier Minister Francois Hollande. In the song

“Le Pengouin” Bruni sings about a penguin, which in France is also

a synonym for a stiff, narrow minded person.

The Echo is considered to be the most important music award in

Germany.

While Freiwild claim that they do not support right wing ideas, the band is heavily criticized for their distinctively

nationalistic lyrics

Carla Bruni

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ILMC Celebrates a Quarter Century with another Sold Out EditionAllan McGowan [email protected]

The 25th edition of the pre-eminent live music

industry event, and quoting John Gammon

in Pollstar’s report, ‘...probably its greatest

social event.’ sold out yet again welcoming

eleven hundred delegates from 62 countries

to the Royal Garden Hotel, London – as ILMC

founder Martin Hopewell said in his opening

speech, “I’d find it difficult to write out the

names of 62 countries…!”

ILMC itself officially ran from the Friday

March 8 till Sunday the 10th, but private

meetings brought many delegates in

early as did the associated Green Events

and Innovations conference, and the

second edition of the bolt on Production

event on the Thursday attracted over 130

professionals . Topics discussed in this event

were referred to in the main event with co-

organize r Carl Martin delivering a summary

in the Tour Party session on the Saturday

morning at ILMC. The outstanding topic

dealt with Fatigue, with evidence showing

that many members of touring crews were

struggling to get by with as little as three

hours sleep a night – both an unhealthy

and dangerous situation, which was also

referred to in the Festival Forum, and may

well find its way into the main agenda next

year to see how the problem has been

addressed in the intervening year.

Although the Conference has made obvious

efforts to feature younger professionals in

the panels the ‘more venerable’ speakers still

pull a crowd, in some cases too much of a

crowd, the ‘Dragon’s Den’ sessions featuring

Leon Ramakers, Thomas Johannsen, Carl

Leighton-Pope and Harvey Goldsmith,

were set up in a room for 30 or so people,

intended to be seen as mentoring sessions

for newer and younger delegates to get ‘up

close and personal’ with these luminaries to

hear the stories of their careers and to ask

questions. However in the actuality it seemed

that even those who could quite reasonably

arrange lunch with these ‘Dragons’ wanted

to attend the sessions, leading to a crowd

in the corridor outside the room, and some

disgruntled latecomers. Sometimes you

can’t do right for doing right! In the end the

final Dragon session saw Harvey Goldsmith

leading his audience into a bigger room and

conducting what became more of a panel

than a more personal session.

Apart from the socializing and the networking ,

all the panels pulled good attendance, with

the ‘informative’ panels, such as the now

regular , ‘New Technologies’ session and

the Market Focus – ‘From Russia With Live’

providing attendants with new knowledge.

The Festival Forum, ‘Past, Present and Future

Tents’ brought some humorous moments as

Chairman John Probyn of Live Nation after

describing his battles to cope with deluged

grass surfaces at Hyde Park following

dreadful weather conditions was told by

panelist festival organizers including Dany

Hassenstein of Paleo in Switzerland and Baris

Basaran of Turkey’s One Love Festival of their

necessity to bring in snow machines to cool

the punters down! John’s eyes rolled to the

heavens, as he demanded of a certain panel

organizer of your acquaintance: “Did you

pick these panelists just to wind me up?!”

The theme of cooperation was mentioned

in several of the panels at ILMC. Although,

of course, competition exists, particularly

between the bigger companies such as

Live Nation and AEG, there seems to be a

willingnes s to share information. In the Tour

Martin at Flight Attendants briefing

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Party - Keeping the Customer Satisfied ,

Herman Scheuremans of Arthur winners

Rock Werchter revealed that his crew often

passed on information about particular acts

production needs to other festivals in other

territories due to host that act, with particula r

emphasis on anything unusual or problematic.

The work of Festival Associations like

Yourope and the AIF in areas like Health and

Safety and Green concerns are also evidence

of this continuing trend.

Ex Dire Strait’s manager Ed Bicknell, also a

drummer, conducted his regular and now

legendary Sunday morning interview, this

time with Pink Floyd drummer and founder

Nick Mason, who proved to be an extremely

entertaining and informative speaker. A

triumvirate of drummers was made up by

a front row guest in the person of Brian

Bennett , the drummer of The Shadows.

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The Arthur AwardsAllan McGowan [email protected]

These Awards started life as a spoof – a lighthearted take on the

pomposity of certain Awards, ‘Arthur’, not too far from Oscar, being

based on a certain ‘wheeler-dealer’ TV character. Now these Awards

are taken very seriously with local and international press commenting

on the winners, and many winners issuing press releases expressing

their pride and pleasure in receiving their ‘Arthur’, as with the Rock

Werchter response following this list of winners.

This year the Awards were presented at a Gala Dinner at London’s

famous Savoy Hotel;

First Venue to Come Into Your Head:

The Royal Albert Hall (UK)

Services Above And Beyond:

EPS

Liggers Favourite Festival:

Rock Werchter

The Golden Ticket:

The Ticket Factory

Most Professional Professional:

Gillian Park (MGR, UK)

The People’s Assistant:

Charlie Renton (Primary Talent, UK)

Tomorrows New Boss:

Oliver Hoppe (Wizard, DE)

Second Least Offensive Agent:

Emma Banks (CAA, UK)

The Promoter’s Promoter:

Folkert Koopmans (SKP Scorpio, DE)

The ILMC Bottle Award:

Ed Bicknell (Damage Management, UK)

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Oliver Hoppe

Emma Banks

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The ILMC Experience 2013Manfred Tari [email protected]

The 25th edition of the ILMC proceeded very smoothly. The days

of overwhelming rhetorical contributions by UK-top agents to the

conference agenda definitely seem to be history. In the past the

Conference was particularly highlighted by occasionally emotional

and opinionated declarations by some of its top speakers.

This though has changed. Some of the elder statesmen of the ILMC

hold themselves back or leave more room for younger and new faces

that appear on this conference. Does the IMLC lose any of its on

attraction as a result? No, not at all.

The new conference spirit of ILMC has rather become more factual

and informative. Like every music conference ILMC is able deliver

interesting and inspiring information for those who are interested

in new developments that drives the music business into the future.

And the ILMC stands foremost besides the Amsterdam Dance Event,

Midem and SXSW in confirming that it is a meeting place for the

global music industry community. But, compared to other flagship

conventions, the ILMC is also still a much more intimate industry

event, benefiting from being able to maintain its highly personnel

character.

The ongoing meet & greet in the lobby and in the bar of the Royal

Garden is certainly one of the key assets of the ILMC, but besides this

it is some of its conference topics that deliver an often underestimated

added value towards this event.

One of this year’s highlights was the panel “Selling the show:

Going to market”, hosted by Serge Grimaux and Geoff Meall. This

panel impressed due to its up to date overview of new media and

technology relevant to the live music business. “Sell out on twitte r

alone “, as someone says underlines how massively the settings for

communication have changed in just a few years. Buzz phrases such

as “permissive marketing” as Grimaux called it, “referring to today’s

much more personalized marketing tools. Today’s marketing inventory

has made available a multifunctional complexity that opens up yet

almost unthinkable new opportunities for the live music business .

When the speaker for the Dutch agency Friendly Fire stated that he is

not interested in “giving Mark Zuckerberg all the data” he indicated

that the live music industry is on the verge of a new phase.

For years the live music industry delivered data for ticketing supplier s,

but since RFID technologies now enable promoters to run their festival s

on a cashless basis, and since social media apps allows promoter s to

interact with punters directly, promoters such as Friendly Fire are able

to set up “editorial rooms” for festivals to follow up to four weeks

of post-event-communication, it is now obvious that the live music

business has access to new additional values that are of enormous

interest to other industries.

Certainly l some of the new applications are still under development ,

but in particular this ILMC panel documented how times have

changed for this sector of the music industry. Occasionally it is just

a side note that underlines how significant the changes for the live

music industry are. In the ILMC “booking ring” it was Rob Challice

from Coda Agency who emphasized that the live music sector is a

much greater income supplier for artists than the record industry.

Settin g this conclusion in context with the findings as mentioned on

the panel “Selling the show...” proves that the live music business is

currently undergoing a thorough conversion.


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So, besides the good old heavyweights many new players were to be

seen at ILMC. Some of the pioneers of the live music business such as

Marcel Avram, Barry Dickens or Carl Leighton Pope just to mention

a few still enrich the ILMC with their presence, but ILMC is on its way

to become the home of a new generation of live music entrepreneurs

and workers...

By the way, this year’s ILMC theme “Back to the future” is also in

line with the statement of Rob Challice, remarking that before the

invention of the gramophone it was just the live music and the

publishing sector that fed the music industry...

Rob Challice - Coda Agency“Returning for my first weekend at ILMC in 6 years it brought home

how much the live business’ relationship with the record business has

changed in that time. Whereas once artists used to rely on record

labels for their income, now the main source of their income comes

from live work. We, the live business, are creating the opportunities

and strategies that enable bands to have sustainable careers.”

Ivana Draglia and Renzo Wellinger

(Editors at Musikmarkt.de)Please let us hear your comments on this year’s edition of the

ILMC?

– “Martin Hopewell brought it to the point when saying: ‘It was

fucking good!’ The ILMC is a perfect occasion to make new contacts,

to gain input and to inform you about new trends.”

Did you gain any new ideas or inspirations out of ILMC 2013?

– “Loads of coffee and a nap in between are highly important. But

seriously: We found out a lot about how important regulated working

times can help to improve the safety standards at events. Also many

technology innovations were introduced at ILMC and besides this it

is a pleasure to see that there is young generation of promoters that

have been successful in establishing themselves in this business.”

Neil Vasavada: EPS America llc“EPS America was impressed by the organization, execution and

quality of the panels presented. The access to industry veterans as

well as colleagues and customers who are at the top of their game

was an experience that would be hard to replicate.”

Of the many new insights, one thing that stands out is the direction

and health of the industry. We understand how important festivals and

EDM events remain, got to hear very insightful things about evolution

in the ticketing industry and what kinds of things are becoming more

important to promoters. Communication and personal relationships

are still among the most important things, even in this age of Twitter

& Facebook.”

Delegate Comments re ILMC 2013

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Which music convention you will visit next?

– “Pollstar for sure, probably more but don’t know right now.”

Andrew Stone:

Managing Director EPS Australia pty ltd“As a first time ILMC delegate, it was a far different atmosphere to

many of the other conferences I’ve attended in the past. There was

a wide range of industry delegates in attendance from an even wider

range of countries. To hear people become actively involved with the

Panel discussions and openly discuss topics which are relevant within

the industry right across the globe, made the conference well worth

attending. I’m looking forward to registering for 2014 already.”

Adam Saunders X-Ray Touring:Had another great year catching up with a lot of old friends, drank a

load of beer, did a load of business... business as usual!


– It’s possible to fit 10 cowboys on stage at the Underworld in

Camde n, courtesy of The BossHoss (Friday night)!


– SXSW for a change

Philipp Styre, Creative Talent: Are you pleased with this year’s edition of the ILMC?

– Yes - I met a lot of old friends and partners and made some new

ones and also made new contacts. With winning the ILMC table-

socce r cup the 2nd year in a row we may have made some new

enemie s as well.


– International touring even to very new places has gotten easier. The

world is becoming a smaller place.


– Reeperbahn Festival and CMJ New York...

Rainer Appel - CTS Eventim:“ILMC 25 was a truly intense experience. It was great to meet so

many peers in one place over a weekend - and in many cases be able

to finally put a face on the e-mails you’ve been getting and sending

all the time. And it was particularly great to get so much positive

feedback on Eventim’s new FanTicket – it seems we really hit the

spot with our latest innovation! Thanks also to Serge Grimaud and

Geoff Meall for inviting me to their marketing panel. See you all at

ILMC26!”

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Rock the House – UK Parliament Supports Live MusicAllan McGowan [email protected]

Rock the House is a Parliamentary live

music and venue competition founded by

Member of Parliament Mike Weatherley. The

competition aims to celebrate the very best

of up-and-coming unsigned British artists

and the live music venues that support them.

The initiative of the competition is to raise

the political profile of the importance of

intellectual property rights, and live music,

among Parliamentarians. The very laudable

and increasingly important aim of Rock the

House is to underline just how is hugely

importan t the UK music industry is in terms

of employment and overseas earnings . The

organisers state that this must be encouraged

and protection of copyright is essential to the

ongoing ability to pay artists for the work

they create.

How it Works

Every MP is invited to nominate their favourite

act from each category in their constituency .

A panel of international music industry

expert s and musicians then determine the

finalists who will compete in a live battle

of the bands. The lucky winners will receive

some once in a lifetime prizes, while some

will also get the chance to play a live set on

the Terrace of the House of Commons in the

evening at the finale reception.

The categories for the competition this

year include:

Best solo act under 19

Best band under 19

Best solo act

Best band

Best music video

Best small venue

MPs nominations will close on March 31st

2013; The under 19’s finals will take place

at The Bedford, Balham, South London on

May 28th 2013, and the Awards ceremony

will take place at the House of Commons on

June 26th.

VIP News spoke to Mike Weatherley MP

about the Competition and what he hopes

to achieve:

Many people in the music industry and

particularly in the live industry have

been lobbying the Government for

assistance with the problems of breaking

and supporting new talent for quite

some time; it seems that your initiative is

helping to move things on. Do you think

your fellow MP’s are a lot more aware of

the situation now?

– Definitely, some 250 MP’s have responded

to requests to propose bands and venues

from their constituencies. There’s a surprising

number who are musicians and have played

in covers bands for instance.

So do you think it’s true to say that attitudes

have changed and the importanc e of

‘popular’ music is now being taken more

seriously by the powers that be?

– Yes, I recall that not so very long ago two

Labour MP’s tried to ban Alice Cooper from

playing in this country, but recently I hosted

him at The House of Commons, and the

Speaker of the House joined us for tea! He

is now one of the patrons of Rock the House.

What else are you trying to achieve in

this area?

– There are various aspects that we’re trying

to push up the agenda, we’ve been very much

involved in the successful bringing to law

of Lord Tim Clement-Jones Live Music

Act. The easing of licensing restrictions

for live music venues instituted by the Act

originally applied to venues of up to 200

capacity, but this has now been raised

Rock The House launched 2013 at Speakers House, The House of Commons

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Fatboy Slim, Commons House Rock The House, Alice Cooper

to 500. “I’m very proud that ‘Rock the

House’ has helped nudge legislation in

the right direction , reducing needless red

tape for small venues. I hope many small

venues will enter the competition this

year, and hold gigs with up to 500 people

attending – with no need for a license!”

Also many venues have been closed, or

threatened with closure , because of noise

complaints, we’re urging venues to fit air

lock type doors. I’m a member of the Noise

Abatement Society, but I don’t want to see

more venues closed if we can help it.

Do you have plans to increase your

activities ?

– This is the largest Parliamentary Competition

by far. This year the prizes are much bigger

and the competition’s Patrons range from

rock legends Alice Cooper, Mark Hoppus,

Ian Gillan to Charlie Simpson, Matt Tuck,

Rick Wakeman and Yngwie Malmsteen. In

a different genre we also had Fatboy Slim

performing at the House last week – under

the banner of ‘House the House’!

I’m also getting interest from the US and

Europe , so perhaps we could consider

extending the Competition, to run it on a

Europe wide basis.

More information:

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Mama & Company Acquire Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen Allan McGowan [email protected]

On Thursday 14th March 2013; MAMA &

Company announced the expansion of its

venue portfolio with the purchase of East

London’s highly regarded Hoxton Square

Bar and Kitchen. Considering the number

of Londo n venues closing, or in danger of

closing of late, this is good news for the

capita l.

Following the management buyout from

HMV in December, CEO Dean James set

out MAMA & Company’s plans to develop

the live music arm of the business, and this

latest addition to their roster of venues and

award-winning festivals marks a further step

in MAMA’s growth.

The 450 capacity restaurant, bar and

live music venue, situated in the heart of

fashionabl e Shoreditch, East London, is

one of London’s most popular locations for

intimate live performance and has played

host to numerous breaking acts. MAMA &

Company – once known as the Mama Group,

has a long history of promoting emerging

talen t through its venues and festival s and

will continue to programme new music at

the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen.

CEO Dean James said;

“Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen is one of

the premier venues in London for showcasing

new talent. We started 15 years ago with

The Barfly in Camden and gave first London

gigs to bands like Coldplay and Muse. The

axis of London’s music scene has definitely

shifted East over the years and we have long

coveted a space where we could do what we

do best – promote up and coming artists.

With Hoxton we think we have got the best

site in East London.”

High-profile musicians that have played the

Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen stage in

their infancy, include; Mumford and Sons,

Paloma Faith, Vampire Weekend, Jessie J and

Laura Marling to name just a few. The future

line-up includes shows with form Bleech,

Story Books, CSS, Ewert and the Two

Dragons and Akron Family.

Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen


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Live Nation to Stage even More Shows throughout Europe Allan McGowan [email protected]

Reports in the Financial Times and elsewhere indicate that the world’s

biggest concert promoter is to present even more Concerts across

Europe after significant increases in ticket sales this year. There is talk

of gigs at a 1,000 new venues, although I’m sure this doesn’t mean

absolutely new venues, but venues new to Live Nation, which also

seems a mite questionable. Still, I suppose this may be possible, and

I’d love to see a listing!

The figures bandied about mention 1,100 new arenas, producing a

total of nearly 5,000 to be used by the giant, in order to capitalis e

on ‘buoyant European demand’ for live concerts. Considering the

expressed worries in the last year of promoters in France, Spain,

Portugal and elsewhere this seems to indicate a reversed trend.

However Live Nation has apparently already seen a 25pc increase

in ticket sales fuelled by sales for Rihanna and Bruce Springsteen,

(who will headline Hard Rock Calling at the Olympic Stadium this

year) since the start of this year, with the UK doing particularly well.

They’ve done well with One Direction in the US as well.

Live Nation staged around 22,000 gigs and festivals in 2012, attracting

16.75m visitors. That helped to fuel a 4.8pc increase in operating

profits to $459.1m, and an 8.1pc boost in sales to $5.82bn. 100,000

tickets were sold for The Wireless Festival on the first day.

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WeGotTickets Reveal the Environmental Impact Results of Varying Ticketing ProcessesAllan McGowan [email protected]

At the Green Events and Innovations

conference , part of the International

Live Music Conference in London by

WeGotTickets’ founder Dave Newton

reveale d the results of their ticketing survey .

They revealed mailed-out tickets consume

over a whopping 100x the amount of

energy of completely paperless ones, where

the ticketholder just presents their ID and

booking reference to gain entry. And

print-at-home tickets produce over 40x

more carbon than the completely paperless

variety .

To put this in context, the energy used in

ticketing a sold-out O2 Arena show via

paperless tickets would do less environmental

damage than if a 200 capacity venue like The

Lexington had sold out using paper tickets .

The ticketing from a sold-out paperless

ticket show at Brixton Academy would have

less environmental impact than a barely

half-full print-at-home ticket show at the

aforementioned Lexington.

Newton used the presentation to deliver a

call to action to industry and consumers alike

to make paperless ticketing work.

“This report resoundingly illustrates how

a modern ticketing system would reduce

greenhouse gas emissions by over 100-fold.

It behoves the ticketing sector to make sure

that paperless becomes the norm and that

gig-goers are educated and encouraged to

never print out an email confirmation again.

The message is clear: there’s simply no need

for people to print out tickets, a booking

reference is all that’s necessary.”

The report, available

from the WeGotTickets

web site, is a first step

towards signposting

a better- functioning

primary ticket market

that puts customers first

and makes purchase,

delivery and redemption

of tickets as transparent

as possible.

While there’s scope for energy savings to

be made across the events business, from

using refillable bottles and cups instead of

disposables , right through to low energy

equipment, ticketing also has its part to

play.

Estimating conservatively that there are over

40m entertainment tickets sold in the UK

each year, the environmental impact of 40m

mailed-out tickets equates to a London bus

circumnavigating the globe five times. That

same bus would have to go round the world

a little more than twice before it had the

same impact as 40m print-at-home tickets. If

the ticket industry were to go truly paperless

then that bus wouldn’t even have to go from

London to John O’Groats and back.

The Report

The report, The Carbon Assessment of

Ticketing Delivery Systems, was compiled

by Sam Chapman of En-Count, a

sustainability consultancy specialising in

life cycle assessment s. It took the Life

Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach, which is

commonly used by industry professionals for

analysis of the environmental

impacts of products and services, and is

described by the International Standard

Organization’s (ISO) framework 14040 [1].

The three ticketing options were modeled

using a life cycle approach, similar to the

ISO 14040 LCA methodology, to compare

their environmental impacts, particularly to

understand what the Greenhouse Gas (GHG)

emissions of these systems are.

The study was based upon WeGotTickets’

business activities over the 12 months from

July 2011 to June 2012, which equated to

approximately 60,200 tickets and 28,000

emails per month, equivalent to 2.15 tickets

per order.

It concluded that the energy and Greenhouse

Gas (GHG) emission burdens of digital ticket

delivery, such as WeGotTickets’ standard

model, are dramatically lower than the

other ticket delivery systems, at 0.0672g of

carbon-equivalent emissions released per

paperless ticket. If the customer prints their

order confirmation email, then the associated

emissions will rise to 2.83g, an increase by

a factor of 42.1:1. This is compared to the


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traditional approach of ticket order delivery

that has associated carbon-equivalent

emissions of 7.23g, an increase by a factor

of 107.6:1 in environmental impact over the

electronic approach.

Commented Chapman:

“It’s fantastic to see ever greater emphasis

on environmental issues in the entertainment

sector, especially since it is such a key part of

modern life and indeed a good message to

younger generations.”

To see the full report visit:

www.WeGotTickets.com/about/goinggreen/

report.pdf

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AEGSale cancelled

The sale of the Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) announced in

September 2012 has been cancelled. Various media sources report

that offers for the Group simply did not meet the sales target The

company, owned and founded by Philip Anschutz owns and operates

more than 100 venues and arenas such as the Staples Center in L.A.

and the O2 arenas in London, Berlin and Hamburg and hold interests

in several sports teams.

Investment firm Blackstone handled the sale procedures. The former

price target was estimated at between $7 and 11 billion. But

apparently offers received were no higher than $4-6 billion.

Live NationAppoints New Chairman

Live Nation has appointed Greg Maffei, the president and CEO of

Liberty Media as non-executive Chairman of the Board, he had

originally joined the board of directors of Live Nation in February 2011.

At the beginning of the year Liberty Media already held 26.4 percent

of the share capital of Live Nation. After the departure of Irving Azoff

as Chairman in Decembe r 2012 Liberty Media also bought 1.7 million

shares from Azoff.

Shortly before the news of Maffei’s appointment the Madison Square

Garden Company (MSG) sold its 2 percent stake in Live Nation. MSG

previously held 3.9 million shares in Live Nation and sold for around $44

million. The sale was a consequence of one of MSG’s main shareholders

James Dolan leaving the Live Nation Board

The news sparked a little share price rally for Live Nation as peaking the

$12 border for the first time for a year.

Earlier this month Live Nation revealed its business results for 2012.

The company has been able to increase its revenue result from $5.383

billion the year before to $5.819 billion and almost doubled its net loss

results from previously minus $83 million to $163,2 million.

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Preliminary 2012 Results by

CTS Eventim

CTS Eventim released its preliminary business report for the business

year 2012 on February 21. The full business report was supposed to

be released at the end of March, while the current figures are as yet

unconfirmed

As usual CTS Eventim reported a higher revenue result. In 2012 it went

up 3.5 percent from 502.6 the year before to 520.3 million Euros.

The Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortisation

(EBITDA ) rose from 94.6 to 118.9 million Euro, a jump of 25,7

percent . Also the EBIT result grew: from 72.1 up to 96.1 million Euros.

While in the past the ticketing division of CTS Eventim appeared to

be biggest gainer for the company, last year the live-entertainment

department was also able to increase its revenue result by 5.5

percent . While in 2011 the revenue was 281 million Euros, this part

of CTS Eventim last year produced a turnover 296.4 million Euro. The

EBITDA went up by 41.6 percent from 18.8 to 26.6 million Euros, the

EBIT even went up by 45.4 percent, from 16.9 to 24.5 million Euros.

The share price of CTS Eventim stood at 27.14 Euro on March 15.

Earlier on in January 2013 the share once stood at 27.87 Euro.

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