1 VIP-BOOKING.COM PREMIUM ›› VOL. 133 ›› FEBRUARY 2011 WWW.VIP-BOOKING.COM Well perhaps you’ll be glad to know he’s back – yes, Shitty the Seagull, or another airborne rat that looks like him- no it’s him. I can tell from the particularly nasty gleam in his eye. There I am just starting to mull over these Musings and there’s a tapping on the widow, of course I leap down the stairs cursing and yelling, “Get off my roof foul creature!” and what does he do, he just stands his ground and stares! I’m sure he’s about to say something, in Gullese of course, then the phone goes, I leap up the stairs grab the phone and run back down, he’s still there! It’s Chris from ILMC, I tell him I’m eye to eye with Shitty who does one of those “Who’s that?” squints, I say (sanity is now disappearing fast!) – “It’s Chris from ILMC”, and I swear Shitty squawks, “Can I come this time, my cousin was on stage with Michal Eavis last year!” “No!” I yell, and looking disgusted he flaps off, doing a quick detour to shit on a pass- ing cat. Then I have to explain all this to Chris, who confirms my (hopefully) tem- porary insanity….Sorry I couldn’t help it, I haven’t had a seagull rant for a while. Anyway back to the world of the live mu- sic industry and the people and events, which maintain its vibrant nature! We’re now well into 2011 and despite some worrying moments last year everything seems as active as ever. The Conference season kicked off last month with Eu- rosonic and Midem, and we refer to out- comes from both events in this News, but there are many major events still to come, SXSW will soon pack the streets and bars of Austin Texas, and prior to that many live industry types will be gearing up for their annual visit to London for the ILMC. This 23rd edition, as usual at The Royal Garden Hotel, March 12-14, will consider the ups and downs of 2010, and has instituted a radical change for the opening session on Friday afternoon, previously so ably and humorously presented by Carl Leighton- Pope. The new format, presumably in- spired by a year which indicated that the live market was not as secure in many are- as as we had come to believe, reviews the major stories of the previous year with the help of some of the major players. The cast of the first ‘Have I Got Live News for You’ will include The Agency Group founder and CEO Neil Warnock, Paul Latham, COO of Live Nation International Music, and Peter Schwenkow, chairman of Deutsche Entertainment AG. The Festivals are in full swing with an- nouncements of this year’s bills appear- ing in inboxes and on line every day. Glas- tonbury have confirmed Coldplay to play the main Pyramid Stage on Saturday 25 June as one of the three headliners with Beyonce doing the Sunday, and perhaps – U2, do we think to make up the trio? – Exciting isn’t it! The Industry big boys are not holding back in 2011 either, after a more than bumpy year which had many speculating as to whether their next moves may be a little more conservative than previously; Live Nation have been shopping again, seemingly undeterred by being hit with a $22 million bill to set- tle a lawsuit, and saying goodbye to a founding figure. Also AEG are going head to head with Ticketmaster with their new ticketing venture. All is explained in this issue’s Business News At the other end of the business scale it’s good to see that London’s 100 Club has been extended a life line and will con- tinue to bring live music to London’s Ox- ford St. (see report) Right - I’m off to calm down, and here is the News... 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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Well perhaps you’ll be glad to know he’s back – yes, Shitty the Seagull, or another airborne rat that looks like him- no it’s him. I can tell from the particularly nasty gleam in his eye. There I am just starting to mull over these Musings and there’s a tapping on the widow, of course I leap down the stairs cursing and yelling, “Get off my roof foul creature!” and what does he do, he just stands his ground and stares! I’m sure he’s about to say something, in Gullese of course, then the phone goes, I leap up the stairs grab the phone and run back down, he’s still there! It’s Chris from ILMC, I tell him I’m eye to eye with Shitty who does one of those “Who’s that?” squints, I say (sanity is now disappearing fast!) – “It’s Chris from ILMC”, and I swear Shitty squawks, “Can I come this time, my cousin was on stage with Michal Eavis last year!” “No!” I yell, and looking disgusted he flaps off, doing a quick detour to shit on a pass-ing cat. Then I have to explain all this to Chris, who confirms my (hopefully) tem-porary insanity….Sorry I couldn’t help it, I haven’t had a seagull rant for a while.
Anyway back to the world of the live mu-sic industry and the people and events, which maintain its vibrant nature! We’re now well into 2011 and despite some worrying moments last year everything seems as active as ever. The Conference season kicked off last month with Eu-
rosonic and Midem, and we refer to out-comes from both events in this News, but there are many major events still to come, SXSW will soon pack the streets and bars of Austin Texas, and prior to that many live industry types will be gearing up for their annual visit to London for the ILMC. This 23rd edition, as usual at The Royal Garden Hotel, March 12-14, will consider the ups and downs of 2010, and has instituted a radical change for the opening session on Friday afternoon, previously so ably and humorously presented by Carl Leighton-Pope. The new format, presumably in-spired by a year which indicated that the live market was not as secure in many are-as as we had come to believe, reviews the major stories of the previous year with the help of some of the major players. The cast of the first ‘Have I Got Live News
for You’ will include The Agency Group founder and CEO Neil Warnock, Paul Latham, COO of Live Nation International Music, and Peter Schwenkow, chairman of Deutsche Entertainment AG.
The Festivals are in full swing with an-nouncements of this year’s bills appear-ing in inboxes and on line every day. Glas-tonbury have confirmed Coldplay to play the main Pyramid Stage on Saturday 25 June as one of the three headliners with Beyonce doing the Sunday, and perhaps – U2, do we think to make up the trio? – Exciting isn’t it! The Industry big boys are not holding back in 2011 either, after a more than bumpy year which had many speculating as to whether their next moves may be a little more conservative than previously; Live Nation have been shopping again, seemingly undeterred by being hit with a $22 million bill to set-tle a lawsuit, and saying goodbye to a founding figure. Also AEG are going head to head with Ticketmaster with their new ticketing venture. All is explained in this issue’s Business News
At the other end of the business scale it’s good to see that London’s 100 Club has been extended a life line and will con-tinue to bring live music to London’s Ox-ford St. (see report) Right - I’m off to calm down, and here is the News...
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Tallinn Music Week is a showcase festival and a music industry networking event that started out in 2009, a year that was declared the Year of Innovation in Estonia. Having partnered up with Tallinn, European Capital of Culture in 2011, and the country’s very own brain child Skype, it is a music export plat-form for Estonian and the neighboring coun-tries’ talent, as well as a tool to encourage professionalism and growth of our region’s music business. Tallinn Music Week welcomes around 100 international delegates to the fes-tival each year, to build professional contacts with local industry and get acquainted with the local artists and music scene.
At the third edition of Tallinn Music Week in 2011 we will present a lineup of around 100 bands and artists, so it is a perfect time to visit early springtime Tallinn during a weekend full of fantastic music in the best venues for the most demanding tastes: from world music, jazz and contemporary classical to punk, elec-tro, metal and anything in between.
Come and join us in 2011, when Tallinn will be the European Capital of Culture!
Delegates’ registration is open at tallinnmusicweek.ee Contact us: [email protected]
“I thought the level of organization and hospitality Tallinn Music Week provided was superb. Tallinn’s concert venues were great. It was one of the most enjoyable conference showcase events I have been to (and I have been to a few!).” Martin Elbourne (Great Escape, Glastonbury):
VIP-News: You have been coming to Midem for quite some time - how many editions have you attended? Have you always done good business in Cannes and how have things changed?
VIP-News: Nothing at Midem is cheap, was this an expensive exercise, who is financ-ing the project and what do you ideally wish to gain from the event? Which venue did you use for this project and what acts did you showcase?
Zähringer: The participating labels are
financed the project, with a 50% co-fund-
ing by the Danish Foreign Ministry’s Ex-
port Council. Without the co-funding this
would not have been possible. The venue
was Le Loft, and we showcased Medina,
Infernal, Outlandish, Kato, Jon, Providers.
There is more info about the showcase at
www.ddme.dk.
VIP-News: It’s no secret that as the music business, particularly the recording sec-tors, and so far, to a lesser extent publish-ing, has been suffering a decline, Midem which has always relied on these sectors has also suffered a drop off in business.You have I’m sure been aware of this, yet you must still think it worthwhile to attend and to invest in a showcase project. Did you do a lot of preparatory work on the showcase in terms of inviting specific delegates to
the event? Do you think that there is still business to be done in Cannes, and to any extent is the reduction in numbers helpful in accessing buyers?
Zähringer: The 3 Danish Showcases (2009,
20110 and 2011) have been unique at MI-
DEM for the genres it represents (elec-
tronic/cross over dance) – why it makes
sense to host such party at Midem there is
no great competition during the evening
programme, unlike WMC and ADE for ex-
ample. It’s a nice way to kick off a new year,
fresh budgets etc… and as mentioned
before, Midem has all key players in the
industry visiting.
VIP-News: Have you had any tangible and confirmed results from this year’s Midem?
Zähringer: We have closed a deal with Edi-
na for the US. We also have interest from a
few other territories not yet closed and a
request for DK artist performances at Mu-
sexpo in LA 1-4 may. Plus we are doing a
DK music export event in Tokyo 5 - 8 May.
south By southwest Announces Yoko Onoas Featured speakerAllan McGowan [email protected]
VIP-News: What will be the impact and consequences for the upcoming festival due to last year’s financial loss? What of measures might be necessary to avoid such a financial loss in the future.
Schmidt: Well of course we’ll try to be less
affected by the weather. But to be hon-
est 2010 was pretty much the worst case
we could imagine and this year there’s no
World Cup, is there? We have very good
sponsor deals for an event like this, but
could use one more main sponsor to help
lower the risk for us. That would solve a lot
of problems and we are working very hard
on all of this.
VIP-News: What are your plans and ideas for Rheinkultur 2011?
Anthony B Territory: EuropePeriod: 24th of June to 23rd of July 2011Agency: MagicboxAgent: Pedro PontesPhone: +31 5 915 378 951 E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: www.magicbox.pt
within TemptationTerritory: WorldwidePeriod: March 2011 and onwardsAgency: X-Ray TouringAgent: Paul BoltonPhone: +44 (0) 20 7749 3500E-mail: [email protected]: www.xraytouring.com
Groove ArmadaTerritory: Europe / Worldwide Period: Worldwide 2011 Agency: WME - William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Agent: Steve Hogan E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: www.groovearmada.com
FirehouseTerritory: EuropePeriod: 1/5/2012 - 31/5/2012Agency: ARM EntertainmentAgent: Dana StrutzPhone: +1 651 483 8754 E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: www.firehousemusic.com
Gary lucas & Gods and Monsters ex-guitarist Captain Beefheart (r.i.p.)Territory: EuropePeriod: June - July Agency: Paperclip Agency Agent: Rob Berends Phone: +31 24 323 9322 E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: www.paperclip-agency.com
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