1 VIP-BOOKING.COM PREMIUM ›› VOL. 136 ›› MAY 2011 WWW.VIP-BOOKING.COM It’s been a busy time in my home City of late; we’re in the middle of the month long Brighton Arts Festival and last weekend a large section of the music industry turned up on my doorstep for the 6th edition of The Great Escape (see report in this is- sue). Apart from having the pleasure of just having to stroll down the road, rather than get on a plane, to meet with friends an colleagues from various countries, I was happy to be vindicated by several del- egates who now have their own tales of air- borne attacks, over my loathing of the rats of the air – yes, again, seagulls! One had his car completely re-sprayed in that fetching shade of recycled Gull Lunch, another had his own lunch stolen off his plate whilst dining alfresco near the front, and most horribly, I am reliably informed by Pip of UK Trade and Investment that she had to sup- ply a change of clothing to an unfortunate lady delegate who was splattered from head to toe by another of the incontinent winged bastards! – Fashion statement? – I don’t think so! – So it’s not just me! – Right, I’ll lay of that for a while now… It’s a fact that music events have come increasingly to depend on sponsorship to subsidise their activities, and of course music for huge brands music is a vital area for marketing, but now and again music companies are not so happy about the way giants like Coca-Cola go about their business; one of the sponsors of The Great Escape was Relentless, the energy drink owned by Coca-Cola, the logo was promi- nent throughout the Conference and Con- cert venues and in the streets of Brighton. The brand has a strong association with music via its marketing and sponsorship activities, but it appears that after attempts at negotiation about the use of the brand name Media Village Entertainment, own- ers of the Relentless Record Company, now a subsidiary of EMI are suing Coca Cola. The fizzy drinks giant is not having a good time over its choice of names of late, hav- ing had to back down on their plans to trade mark and use the term ‘No Half Measures’ in the UK with respect to the cultural activities classification. The trou- ble started in 2008 when the mark ‘No Half Measures’ was used to brand the Relent- less activities within the music business, an area where No Half Measures Ltd. has a long established reputation. A series of legal exchanges took place over a thirty month period as the giants tried to dis- miss Dougie’s claim, now vindicated by the Intellectual Property Office. He com- mented, “We are extremely pleased with this outcome, it has been a long and at times fraught encounter however we feel completely vindicated in our decision to stand up to one of the biggest businesses in the world.” So, although the music industry may need the support of the big guys with the deep pockets, it’s nice to see the ‘little guys’ win now and again, after all it’s them that give the business its character and develop the artists and the music that make it what it truly is. 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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PreMIuM ›› VOl. 136 ›› May 2011
www.VIP-BOOKING.COM
It’s been a busy time in my home City of
late; we’re in the middle of the month long
Brighton Arts Festival and last weekend a
large section of the music industry turned
up on my doorstep for the 6th edition
of The Great Escape (see report in this is-
sue). Apart from having the pleasure of
just having to stroll down the road, rather
than get on a plane, to meet with friends
an colleagues from various countries, I
was happy to be vindicated by several del-
egates who now have their own tales of air-
borne attacks, over my loathing of the rats
of the air – yes, again, seagulls! One had his
car completely re-sprayed in that fetching
shade of recycled Gull Lunch, another had
his own lunch stolen off his plate whilst
dining alfresco near the front, and most
horribly, I am reliably informed by Pip of UK
Trade and Investment that she had to sup-
ply a change of clothing to an unfortunate
lady delegate who was splattered from
head to toe by another of the incontinent
winged bastards! – Fashion statement? – I
don’t think so! – So it’s not just me! – Right,
I’ll lay of that for a while now…
It’s a fact that music events have come
increasingly to depend on sponsorship
to subsidise their activities, and of course
music for huge brands music is a vital area
for marketing, but now and again music
companies are not so happy about the
way giants like Coca-Cola go about their
business; one of the sponsors of The Great
Escape was Relentless, the energy drink
owned by Coca-Cola, the logo was promi-
nent throughout the Conference and Con-
cert venues and in the streets of Brighton.
The brand has a strong association with
music via its marketing and sponsorship
activities, but it appears that after attempts
at negotiation about the use of the brand
name Media Village Entertainment, own-
ers of the Relentless Record Company, now
a subsidiary of EMI are suing Coca Cola.
The fizzy drinks giant is not having a good
time over its choice of names of late, hav-
ing had to back down on their plans to
trade mark and use the term ‘No Half
Measures’ in the UK with respect to the
cultural activities classification. The trou-
ble started in 2008 when the mark ‘No Half
Measures’ was used to brand the Relent-
less activities within the music business,
an area where No Half Measures Ltd. has
a long established reputation. A series of
legal exchanges took place over a thirty
month period as the giants tried to dis-
miss Dougie’s claim, now vindicated by
the Intellectual Property Office. He com-
mented, “We are extremely pleased with
this outcome, it has been a long and at
times fraught encounter however we feel
completely vindicated in our decision to
stand up to one of the biggest businesses
in the world.”
So, although the music industry may need
the support of the big guys with the deep
pockets, it’s nice to see the ‘little guys’ win
now and again, after all it’s them that give
the business its character and develop the
artists and the music that make it what it
truly is.
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Our very own editor Allan McGowan together with Ruud Berends at The Great Escape 2011.Proud winners of the awards “Conference Junkie Of The Year” and “Best Conference Bag”.
VIP-News: Roskilde, Oya and the Way Out West intend to develop an organic food range that will be available at the festivals and also in normal shops. Can you please provide me with some information on this project?
Marie á Rogvi: We are currently working
with Oya and Way Out West to improve
the exchange of knowledge between fes-
tivals on how to get even greener - and yes
eventually we will also cooperate on get-
ting organic and sustainable products to
the festivals.
VIP-News: What percentage of the food consumed by Roskilde visitors is organic?
Rogvi: We actually haven’t counted, but
it’s an area in which we think there is space
for improvements. In the area around the
Sustainable Stage (Odeon) we only have
ecological and Fair Trade products - food,
drinks etc. - and this area works as a test
area for the rest of the festival, so we try to
get even better.
VIP-News: What kind of organic food is served at Roskilde for festival visitors?
Rogvi: All dairy products, popcorn, veg-
etarian meatballs with potato salad and
green salad, normal and luxury falafel in
pita bread with lettuce and homemade
dressing, Tapas dishes, soup, spaghetti,
fruit and vegetables, pizza, drinks, tea, cof-
fee, juice - among others.
VIP-News: Does the catering for the crew and artists at Roskilde-Festival include or-ganic food and if so, what kind of organic food products?
Rogvi: “Dairy products as well, honey, tea,
coffee, sugar, some nuts and fruit - it de-
pends on the riders, but this is actually an
area we are focussing on this year - how to
improve and make it easier.
VIP-News: Are there any new environmen-tal measures or improvements you will implement at this years edition of the Fes-tival?
Rogvi: This year we will also intensify our
focus on transport. The focus is on public
transport, the use of bikes and electric cars.
We make sure it is easier for our audience
and our volunteers to use public transport
to and from the festival. More trains and
buses are operating between the main
station and the festival site and the service
starts earlier this year.
»We rent out bikes to our volunteers so they can use
these instead of cars.Also our audience can
rent bikes so that they can get into Roskilde city in a
sustainable way«
- Marie á Rogvi
We have 13 electric cars, which our vol-
unteers can use during the festival. That
saves us the use of petrol cars. We rent
out bikes to our volunteers so they can
use these instead of cars. Also our audi-
ence can rent bikes so that they can get
into Roskilde city in a sustainable way.
Furthermore we have a bike-event where
the audience can cycle from Copenhagen
to Roskilde Festival and we supply them
with food and music.
This year we have laid out all our green au-
dience activities - we call them Green Hot
Spots. At a Green Hot Spot the audiences
have the opportunity to do a sustainable
act. Examples are: producing energy on
an exercise bike to charge their mobile
phone, buy biodegradable bottles, eat
food made of mealworms (meat without
carbon footprint) etc.
Green footsteps
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This year we also get our own three wind
turbines, so we can produce our own en-
ergy, and we keep intensifying the use of
LED-lamps on our stages.
Again we will carry out our daily trash
collection - every day we go around the
camping area, encouraging the audience
to collect their trash and deliver it in the
trash cars. We call it Green Hour - it lasts
longer, but in this hour we make a little
more noise and excitement about it!
And again, we hand out pocket ashtrays
to make people put their cigarette butts
in these and empty them in the trash cans
instead of on the ground.”
For further information please check:
www.roskilde-festival.dk/uk/about_the_
festival/environment/green_footsteps/
about_green_footsteps/
lowlands Festival
VIP-News spoke to Eric van Eerdenburg,
MD of the Lowlands festival in the Nether-
lands about his motivations to run a more
environmentally friendly festival.
VIP-News: Why do you put ‘green’ meas-ures on the agenda for Lowlands?
Eric van Eerdenburg: Festivals should
be more than a line up. Festivals are the
gathering of likeminded young people.
They are the future of the world. They
have to deal with the big issues of tomor-
row. In the 60s and 70s festivals were the
platform for the issue of the Vietnam war
and how to come to peace. One of the
big issues today is a sustainable world.
As a festival organiser I want to be part of
the solution and not part of the problem.
Lowlands can be seen as a metaphor for
a city for 55.000 people for three days. If
I find solutions for my temporary city and
they work well they can work anywhere. I
want my visitors to be involved and they
are. They expect us to work cleaner. Low-
lands is a frontrunner in choice of line-up
and its festival concept. We want to be a
frontrunner in recognising and tackling
social issues too.
VIP-News: Do you have for a ‘sustainable’ or ‘environmental’ manager for the Low-land event?
VIP-News: Do you collaborate with exter-nal partners regarding these issues?
Eerdenburg: Yes, we hire a consultant this
year to organise the expert meetings and
calculates the business models. He tries to
get the right companies involved and per-
suades them to co- invest in our experi-
ments and test cases. There are quite a few
external companies involved in getting
the plans into realistic models.
VIP-News: What kind of waste you have to deal with on the site and how many visi-tors did Lowland have in recent years?
»We have 55.000visitors who all camp
for three days. But from camping the waste is too
diverse to recycle. It will be burnt in a power plant«
- Eric van Eerdenburg
Eerdenburg: We separate our waste from
production and catering on the backstage
side of the festival in paper, glass, plastic
and wood, scrap metals etc. From the festi-
val ground itself we make sure everything
we give out from the catering is com-
postable/ biodegradable. Beer-cups are
from bio-plastics and through a deposit
system 80% is recycled. We have 55.000
visitors who all camp for three days. But
from camping the waste is too diverse to
recycle. It will be burnt in a power plant.
VIP-News: What are the figures on the Low-lands eco-balance sheet?
Eerdenburg: the CO2 footprint is 2679 ton;
that’s officially measured including bands,
audience, and production transport, waste,
food, etc.
(A) Average City with 60.000
people
(B) Lowlands incl. Visitors,
Crew & Guests 60.000
CO2 emissions:
(A) 5277 ton
(B) 2700 ton
Waste:
(A) 314.630 kg
(B) 487.000 kg
Water:
(A) 23 million liter
(B) 10 million liter
Electricity:
(A) 757.030 Kwh
(B) 864.000 Kwh
Greener Festival- another Best Case example:
It is a certification but also a brand. It is very
valuable example for the live music industry
of how to deal with environmental issues in
a smart and clever way. It is also an example
about the relevance of networking and col-
laboration in a part of the music industry as
practised by the recording music industry
or music publishers and copyright collec-
tion societies.
VIP-News spoke to Ben Challis, general sec-
retary of the Glastonbury festival and one
of the founders of the organisation Green-
er Festivals.
VIP-News: When was the organisation ‘Greener Festivals’ founded and by whom actually?
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Ben Challis: It was founded in 2006 by Claire
O’Neill (MD of the Association of Independ-
ent Festivals), it was her research in 2005
that inspired us, myself and Luke Westbury.
Our team now includes Helen Wright who
is our European co-ordinator and Amie
Green, our Australian co-ordinator.
VIP-News: What inspired your engage-ment for ‘Greener Festivals’?
»Last year 47 festivals entered our Greener Festival
Awards scheme, hundreds of festival goers took part
in our Great Big Green ideas competition, we
spoke to hundreds of event organisers at conferences and seminars around the
World and visited a number of Universities promoting
sustainable events«
- Ben Challis
Challis: Whilst a number of festivals in the
United Kingdom have been instrumental
in promoting green living and sustainable
lifestyles for many years, there seemed
to be a need to have a central resource
where event organisers - and festival
goers - could swap ideas and good prac-
tice. A Greener Festival grew out of that
need and the 2005 research undertaken
by one of A Greener Festival’s co-found-
ers, Claire O’Neill, which showed that the
audience going to events was worried
about noise, pollution, waste and increas-
ingly greenhouse gas emissions. Against
a background of increasing recognition
of climate change and the effect of green-
house gases on climate, and a dramatic
increase in planned legislation, we hope
to have helped music and arts festivals
around the World promote sustainable
events and sustainable lifestyles. Last
year 47 festivals entered our Greener Fes-
tival Awards scheme, hundreds of festival
goers took part in our Great Big Green
ideas competition, we spoke to hundreds
of event organisers at conferences and
seminars around the World (Australia,
Hungary, Finland, Belgium, Germany, UK)
and visited a number of Universities pro-
moting sustainable events.
VIP-News: How many festivals usually hand in the application for the Green Fes-tival Award?
Challis: “16 in 2007, 32 in 2008, 39 in 2009
and 47 in 2010”
VIP-News: Just in terms of figures, it looks like many English festivals support the idea behind ‘Greener Festivals’. Are Eng-lish festival promoters and their audience more open minded and concerned about these issues?
Challis: Not really - I think it was initially
that we launched in the UK because that is
where we are based
VIP-News: Do you have an overview of how many UK-Festivals currently have an environmental or sustainability manager?
Challis: Not exactly - its growing and fes-
tivals like Glastonbury and organisations
like Festival Republic do have full time
members of staff - but many small festi-
vals do not. BUT - we feel it is important
for one person to have overall responsi-
bility for environmental issues - with the
support of organisers they can make a
real difference.
VIP-News: Do you work together with or-ganisations such as ‘Green & Clean’ or public institutions?
Challis: Yes, we do - we work with Julie’s Bi-
cycle in the UK and now with Green Events
Germany and the Green Music Initiative in
Germany - we recently provided speakers
for the Belgian Festival’s organisation, for
the British Council in Hungary and for Finn-
ish festival promoters. BUT, we receive NO
government funding of any sort. We are
‘not for profit’ and open to work with any
credible and effective partners depending
on what they want to do.”
VIP-News: What else comes into your mind that may be of interest for other people in this industry?
live Nation increased turnover and lowered its loss in Q1-2011
Live Nation has been able to increase its
revenue result from $723.4 up to $849.4
million; the company improved its re-
sults in every business section except
the management division Artist Nation.
In the Concerts segment the revenue
rose from $408.1 to $449.3 million,
for Ticketing returns leapt up by 41.7
percent from $209.1 to $296.3 million.
Percentage wise the biggest growth
gainer was the eCommerce division of
Live Nation, which went up 62.4 per-
cent from $18.1 to $29.4 million while
the company reported increased rev-
enue for its Sponsorship department
from $21.2 up to $24.8 million. Only the
revenue gained by Artist Nation went
down, from $69.9 to $54.1 million.
The Operating Loss lowered from $87.7
to $69.0 million. The total liabilities on
December 31 2010 were $1.474.221,
on March 31 this year this figure was
at $1.825.877 billion. In the business
report Michael Rapino commented:
“Our healthy first quarter performance
reflects improvement in ticket sales,
solid growth in our Sponsorship and
eCommerce segments and our focus
on carefully managing our costs.” Re-
garding the outlook Rapino said: “In
the year ahead, we remain focused on
driving the two key parts of our busi-
ness which are adding content and
monetizing the event in order to grow
our higher margin businesses. We’re
continuing to invest in upgrading our
digital infrastructure to improve func-
tionality and adding enhancements to
our eCommerce platform to improve
our core services for fans, artists, sports
teams and venues.”
On May 5 when the business report
was issued the share closed the market
day at $10.87 and until May 20 went up
to $11.00.
Michael Rapino
Music In shares
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It appears that the corporatisation
of the live music market in France is
speeding up. Whilst no major acqui-
sitions are currently to be reported
in most European live music mar-
kets, the activities of new corporate
investors have attracted attention to
the French concert market.
The French investment company Fi-
malac Développement announced
at the beginning of May that it in-
tends to acquire a 40 percent stake
in the concert company Auguri Pro-
ductions. Fimalac already owns a 40
percent stake in Gilbert Coullier Pro-
ductions, the French market leader
in the concert business and a 40 per-
cent stake in Groupe Lucien Barrière
that promotes about 2.500 shows
per year via its subsidies Barrière and
Fouquet’s.
Fimalac Développement belongs to
the holding Fimalac and is listed on
the Paris stock market Euronext. The
company also owns a 100 percent of
the venue chain Vega, owners of 20
concert halls, sport venues and con-
ference centres. Vega is the market
leader in France within this business
segment.
Another new market entry is the La-
gardère Media Group who launched
a new division entitled Lagardère
Unlimited Live Entertainment at the
beginning of April. The venture in-
tends to promote tours and concerts
and will also hold a stake in the com-
pany that runs the Zénith concert
hall in Paris. In 2010 the Lagardère
Group returned a turnover result of
7.9 billion Euros and, due to its finan-
cial strength and media power, is
considered by other live music par-
ticipants as a very serious player that
will accelerate the consolidation of
the French live music market.
Also corporate players are focusing
on the ticket market in France; at the
end of 2010 Vivendi Universal took
over the ticketing provider Digitick.
According to media reports Vivendi
Universal paid 45 million Euros for
the company, supposed to be the
market leader for so-called e-tick-
ets. In November 2010 Live Nation
bought the French ticketing com-
pany Ticknet, which according to
the company is the second biggest
ticketing company in France. Live
Nation also owns the festivals Main
Square Festival in Arras in the north
of France and Garorock in Marmande
in the southwest. In 2010 Garorock
attracted more than 50.000 visitors
up on the 41.000 in 2009 while the
site of the Main Square Festival in
the centre of the Arras can hold up
to 30.000 visitors.
Financial heavyweights enter French Concert Market
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