VIP-BOOKING.COM PREMIUM ›› VOL. 124 ›› APRIL 2010 WWW.VIP-BOOKING.COM Firstly, I hope that you’re all located where you wish to be – home, office, the country you usually live in, and if you can’t make it back I hope you’re extending your time on a sunny beach somewhere! Iceland has not had a good time of it of late, what with financial meltdown and rising debts; this is not the sort of new export that they need – we said ‘cash, not ash!’ you can hear the creditors cry. But this is a serious situation, and obviously our business is badly af- fected, with many acts unable to be in the right place at the right time to fulfill tour- ing commitments. Please let us know if you have had problems, as we’d like to get a more definite picture of the true situa- tion. Certainly it has reminded us all in the UK that we live on an island, and seaborne and tunnel travel has its limitations. At the time of writing I’m due to fly to Norway in ten days time (see Bergenfest story in this issue) and I’m very aware that what at first appeared to be a 2 or 3 day inconvenience now seems to have no accurate estimate of a return to normal. If you listen to the talk at events such as the ILMC, promoters are an increasingly put-upon sector of commercial society; ever decreasing profit margins, more and more health and safety obligations and re- strictions, lack of support from other sec- tors of the business – particularly record companies, and increasing financial and rider demands from greedy artists. It’s a hard life and you’d wonder why many continue with such an arduous profes- sion, apart from the glamour of it all! But there is some truth in all of this, so there is some justifiable satisfaction that Prince may now be referred to as the Artist Cur- rently Known As the Bloke that had to pay the Irish Promoter $3 Million. On March 26, a Dublin judge ordered the U.S. pop singer to pay $2.95 million to Irish concert pro- moters MCD Productions Ltd for canceling a 2008 concert at the last minute. Justice Peter Kelly ruled that Prince had commit- ted to perform in Dublin’s 82,300-seat Croke Park in June 2008, but withdrew without explanation just days beforehand, after 55,000 tickets were sold. Prince (51) did not testify at the hearing. The artist’s agency, William Morris, was absolved of li- ability, agent Marc Geiger testified that he rarely spoke to Prince directly and found him one of his toughest clients to under- stand or nail down – surely not? When told that MCD owner Denis Desmond was on the warpath, Prince apparently said, “Tell the cat to chill. We will work something out.” Good for Denis! However Prince is a remarkable performer, so we hope he makes his only three concerts this summer. On the 4th of July, he is playing at Roskilde (DK), on the 9th in Arras (FR), and on the 10th of July he is closing off his short stay in Europe with a concert at Werchter’s Fes- tival Park This will be my last Musings before the UK General Election on May 6th, so the next issue may be written from a country with a totally new Government. The attitudes and approaches of those in power will be very relevant to the future of the creative industries, of which the music industry, including of course the live industry, is a 1 McGowan’s Musings: Allan McGowan The VIP-Booking European Live Entertainment Book Advertising in the VIP Book will make you visible to 10.000 business professionals all over Europe. You will find no better place to expose your company to the whole European Live Entertainment Industry. ›› RESERVE YOUR AD NOW ON WWW.VIP-BOOKING.COM VIP- News
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Firstly, I hope that you’re all located where
you wish to be – home, office, the country
you usually live in, and if you can’t make
it back I hope you’re extending your time
on a sunny beach somewhere! Iceland has
not had a good time of it of late, what with
financial meltdown and rising debts; this is
not the sort of new export that they need
– we said ‘cash, not ash!’ you can hear the
creditors cry. But this is a serious situation,
and obviously our business is badly af-
fected, with many acts unable to be in the
right place at the right time to fulfill tour-
ing commitments. Please let us know if
you have had problems, as we’d like to get
a more definite picture of the true situa-
tion. Certainly it has reminded us all in the
UK that we live on an island, and seaborne
and tunnel travel has its limitations. At the
time of writing I’m due to fly to Norway in
ten days time (see Bergenfest story in this
issue) and I’m very aware that what at first
appeared to be a 2 or 3 day inconvenience
now seems to have no accurate estimate
of a return to normal.
If you listen to the talk at events such as
the ILMC, promoters are an increasingly
put-upon sector of commercial society;
ever decreasing profit margins, more and
more health and safety obligations and re-
strictions, lack of support from other sec-
tors of the business – particularly record
companies, and increasing financial and
rider demands from greedy artists. It’s
a hard life and you’d wonder why many
continue with such an arduous profes-
sion, apart from the glamour of it all! But
there is some truth in all of this, so there
is some justifiable satisfaction that Prince
may now be referred to as the Artist Cur-
rently Known As the Bloke that had to pay
the Irish Promoter $3 Million. On March 26,
a Dublin judge ordered the U.S. pop singer
to pay $2.95 million to Irish concert pro-
moters MCD Productions Ltd for canceling
a 2008 concert at the last minute. Justice
Peter Kelly ruled that Prince had commit-
ted to perform in Dublin’s 82,300-seat
Croke Park in June 2008, but withdrew
without explanation just days beforehand,
after 55,000 tickets were sold. Prince (51)
did not testify at the hearing. The artist’s
agency, William Morris, was absolved of li-
ability, agent Marc Geiger testified that he
rarely spoke to Prince directly and found
him one of his toughest clients to under-
stand or nail down – surely not? When told
that MCD owner Denis Desmond was on
the warpath, Prince apparently said, “Tell
the cat to chill. We will work something
out.” Good for Denis! However Prince is
a remarkable performer, so we hope he
makes his only three concerts this summer.
On the 4th of July, he is playing at Roskilde
(DK), on the 9th in Arras (FR), and on the
10th of July he is closing off his short stay
in Europe with a concert at Werchter’s Fes-
tival Park
This will be my last Musings before the UK
General Election on May 6th, so the next
issue may be written from a country with
a totally new Government. The attitudes
and approaches of those in power will be
very relevant to the future of the creative
industries, of which the music industry,
including of course the live industry, is a
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Here are the results and the winners of PRG LEA:
Arena-Tournee of the YearPink (Funhouse Tour) – Peter Rieger Konzertagentur, Köln Show of the YearApassionata – EquiArte, Berlin Festival of the Year (presented by PRG)Melt! – Melt! GmbH & Co. KG Club-Tournee of the Year (presented by Ströer Deutsche Städte Medien GmbH)Bonaparte – Melt! Booking Concert of the Year„Heimspiel“ 20 Jahre Fantastische Vier auf dem Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart –Musikwirtschaft.de Artistmanagement of the Year Markus Bruns (Brunetti Management Berlin) – Peter Fox Artist Agent of the YearDEAG Classics, Berlin – David Garrett Tour-Promoter of the YearMarek Lieberberg Konzertagentur, Frankfurt/M. Local-Promoter of the YearSemmel Concerts, Bayreuth/Berlin/Chemnitz Location of the YearDresdner Elbufer – PAN Veranstaltungslogistik und Kulturgastronomie, Dres-den Club of the Year – The „Club-Award“ of Initiative MusikSO36 Berlin – Sub Opus 36 Award of the JuryFKP Scorpio – Festivals ‘Rolling Stone Weekender’ and ‘Plage Noir’ Young Talent Support of the Year (presented by Veltins-Arena)
Support-Team of Philipp Poisel: Ralf Schröter (Management), Konzertagentur Peter Rieger, Grönland-Label, Ferryhouse Productions, Musicmonster (Produk-tion), Musikpromotion Eberhard Pacak. New Style Event of the YearBoese & Friends – Die Atzen Tour 2009 Lifetime AchievementHans R. Beierlein
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we:lIVe to Curate live Conference dayat The Great escape 2010Allan McGowan [email protected]
VIP-News: How did this idea come aboutinthefirstplace,andwhen?Alsowastheconcept immediately welcomed and un-derstood on your first approaches to thefestivals?
Rob Challice: I can’t remember where
I was driving, but the idea came to me
when I passed one of those ‘twin-town’
signs and thought it would be great to
set up a similar ‘twin-festival’ concept.
Twin Town relationships are traditionally
formed to promote cultural and commer-
cial ties between towns and regions. It felt
like the idea could easily be applied to like-
minded independent festivals.
When I pitched it to Rob Da bank and Ben
Turner (fellow AIF board members) they
embraced it straight away, the idea really
communicates itself immediately. Once
the AIF board started discussing the idea
it was obvious that there was huge poten-
tial developing various initiatives between
twinned festivals. We subsequently devel-
oped a series of logos that have a visual
impact; these incorporate the respective
twinned festivals.
Frank Nes: My colleagues and I had loosely
discussed setting up a new open air festi-
val in Bergen at the time of Summer Sun-
dae-ish, ie in August, and looked at setting
up a partnership with a UK or Scandina-
vian festival. When Rob contacted me re
the twin festival idea it was quite funny as I
was about to call him to discuss a partner-
ship of some kind with Summer Sundae.
So, yes, I was immediately keen, to put it
mildly. The concept was indeed welcomed
by my colleagues and myself. It is such a
great idea.
VIP-News:Didcertaintwinningsseemob-vious,orwasitamatterofputtingtogeth-er the first events to respond? I see thereisoneUStwinning,howwasthatdecidedupon,alsoareanyofthetwinningsbasedonexistingtwinCityarrangements?
VIP-News: This is flagged as a culturalexchange, and these elements are obvi-ous - as far as you know have local andnational -authorities become involved inthe initiative? Certainly there also seemstobeanobviousopeningwith tradeandeconomics, initially for tourism interestsandperhapsinotherareas,hashisaspectbeen-orwillitbe-exploited?
Challice: We are encouraging the twin fes-
tivals to do ticket swaps and invite media
from one country to another. Local press
in Bergen and Leicester have already given
coverage to the initiative for the festivals
I am involved in. It goes without saying
that festivals often give their audiences
a cultural window to the world outside
their region. With Bergenfest and Summer
Sundae we are going to ‘swap’ volunteers.
We’re also sending a couple of journalists
over to Bergen to write about the city. I
see these ‘twinned’ links developing over
time; we’re not going to be able to achieve
everything in the first year.
Nes: We have involved the regional tourist
board from day one on this and we look
forward to being able to help each other
out on developing new ideas. Bergen as a
tourist destination is very strong, being the
main access point for tourists exploring the
fjords and mountains. Also Bergen has a
strong cultural history with names like Ole
Bull and Edvard Grieg as strong identity
bearers and important for tourism.
With contemporary acts like Kings of Con-
venience, sondre Lerche, Datarock, Mag-
net, Casiokids and Röyksopp either hailing
from or being located in Bergen it is a lot
to build on in establishing Bergen as a des-
tination for a different kind of target and
age group. Not to forget the strong Metal
music history in Bergen. A lot of individual
travellers visit Bergen to explore the tracks
of famed (and infamous) Bergen acts like
Immortal, Gorgoroth, Enslaved and Bur-
zum/Varg Vikernes. The metal travellers
are actually so great in numbers, a finan-
cial paper aptly named them ‘blackpack-
ers’ when analysing travels to Bergen. Ad-
ditionally one of my collegues, Pytten, is
the main producer of many of these acts
and his recording studio is located in the
same building as our offices, thus we have
our fair share of people in black knocking
on our door during the year wanting to
see his studios... There are a lot of avenues
to build on and the regional tourist board
is keen to be part of it using the contem-
porary music scene to increase tourism to
Bergen.
VIP-News: There is mention of artist ex-changes - will this involve events in thetwinninglocationsattimesotherthanthefestivalsthemselves-clubdatesetc?CouldthisbeanexpansionoftheJaJaClubidea(Nordicactsappear regularlyat this clubnight in London), and the Oya Festival’sLondonclubinitiative?
Challice: We will announce a Bergen band
for Summer Sundae. Some of the best
Scandinavian bands originate from Ber-
gen, Kings of Convenience etc.
Nes: I think this can be a great way of mak-
ing artist exchanges and this is something Frank Nes
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we have a strong focus on. Historically Ber-
geners have always looked west to the UK
for inspiration, much more so than look-
ing eastwards towards Oslo or Sweden
(heaven forbid...). Thus, Bergen-based acts
have a sound that I think UK punters and
buyers easily can relate to. Then there’s the
Vikings, of course … a lot of Norwegian
blood in UK genes...
VIP-News:Willall themutualpromotion-al activities be agreed on and handledthroughdiscussionsbetweenthetwinnedevents, or will there be someone, an AIFrepresentative perhaps, operating anoverview,andadvising?
lady GaGaTerritory: EuropePeriod: Spring 2010 onwardsAgency: William Morris Endeavor Ent.Agent: David LevyPhone: +44 20 7534 6800E-mail: [email protected]: www.ladygaga.com
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edge Performance raises more than £32m
Wednesday 21 April 2010: Entertainment
industry investment and advisory group
Edge has announced that its specialist en-
tertainment funds the Edge Performance
VCT (EPVCT) and the Edge Performance EIS
fund together raised £32.1m in their latest
fundraising round, nearly three times last
year’s total.
It makes the 2009/2010 fundraising round
Edge’s most successful yet and brings the
total raised by Edge since it launched four
years ago to £88m.
This success further consolidates Edge’s
lead as the UK’s biggest manager of spe-
cialist investment funds in live music and
events, and also catapults EPVCT into sec-
ond-place in the overall UK VCT fundrais-
ing rankings for this year.
The announcement comes just two weeks
after music industry lobbying group UK
Music, headed by former Undertone Fear-
gal Sharkey, highlighted access to finance
as one of the UK music industry’s greatest
challenges.
The Edge Performance funds now have
£32m more to invest in the music, live
events and entertainment industry, says
Edge Group founder David Glick.
”Too many great businesses in the entertain-
ment industry struggle for want of the invest-
ment they need to grow,” said Glick. “Edge’s
success in raising funds for the sector will al-
low us to play an increasing role in helping
good executives reach their potential.”
EPVCT originally set out to offer 10m shares
but in February 2010 increased this to 20m
and then subsequently to 30m.
Edge benefited from the increased popu-
larity of VCT investments this year, said
Glick, but it also increased its market
share.
“Key to our success has been the timely,
above target, return in June last year of cash
to holders of EPVCT’s original 2006 Ordinary
share issue,” he said. “When we started out,
investors had long believed that the enter-
tainment business was too risky a business
to countenance. By leveraging our industry
knowledge and targeting our investment on
executives with a real track record we believe
we have gone a long way towards reshaping
that perception.”
Edge’s reputation has been built on the
quality of an executive team which in-
cludes not just renowned music industry
dealmaker Glick himself, but also impre-
sario Harvey Goldsmith, former Sony Mu-
sic business affairs head Alasdair George,
VCT pioneer Gordon Power, Elton John
manager Frank Presland, former Emap and
HMV Group chairman Sir Robin Miller and
superstar DJ Pete Tong.
“Access to the best people is a key advantage
in a people business like entertainment,“
said Glick. “We believe that our background
in the entertainment business not only gives
us access to better opportunities, but also
enables us to evaluate them better than our
competitors. This year’s fundraising success
suggests the investment community agrees
with us.”
Companies in which Edge Performance VCT
has invested have promoted more than 200
live concerts in total since December 2006
featuring artists ranging from Kanye West
to Backstreet Boys, Eric Clapton and recent
Grammy Award winner Jeff Beck.
Biggest offer yet takes total raised to £88m
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