1 VIP-BOOKING.COM PREMIUM ›› VOL. 137 ›› JUNE 2011 WWW.VIP-BOOKING.COM So there I was, crossing a wide and fast flowing river on bridge that looked per- fectly solid from the river bank but began to sway from side to side in a strangely disturbing fashion when supporting the weight of a man in full Scottish highland dress playing the bagpipes and being followed by a trail of music industry folk looking forward to the first drink of the evening. I was however temporarily dis- tracted from concerns about the stability of the bridge by the sight of the man up to his chest in the centre of this rushing river unconcernedly wielding a very substantial fishing rod and also wearing a highland ‘bunnet’ while he attempted to catch fish on their way to the one and only Loch Ness. Scottish seagulls were of course hanging around looking for a chance to steal any- thing he caught! No, I wasn’t dreaming or under the influence, I was of course in In- verness at this year’s edition of Go North, a fine event!(See report in this issue) The Festival season has kicked off with the weather again playing its leading part; in the UK the Isle of Wight Festival had a sunny Saturday but suffered from heavy rain and low temperatures on the Sunday, but by all reports high spirits prevailed, with the reformed Pulp scoring a big hit. At the other end of the meteorological scale across the Atlantic at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, temperatures stayed in the 90s (F), 30s (C) for almost the whole four days of the event, with reports of about 1,500 of the 80,000 attendees being treated for heat-related illnesses. Two deaths were reported, whether or not these were as a result of the heat was still to be confirmed. Lets hope the rest of the season wherever festivals takes place, stays free of such un- fortunate casualties, and that the weather gods are kind. In other festival news the irrepressible Vince Power, the man who set up the Mean Fiddler in the 1980s, is going public with his festival interests; Benicassim in Spain, the Hop Farm Music Festival in Kent and the first Feis Festival in London, (I’m off to see Bob Dylan there tonight - as I write) collectively known, strangely enough, as Music Festivals. Encouraged by a Hop Farm sell-out with Prince, extending this year’s edition in July by a day, Power has filed the application for Music Festival’s admission to Aim, the London Stock Exchange’s inter- national market for smaller growing com- panies, which will raise £6.5m. (See Busi- ness News in this issue) Although there are some worries being expressed about the fortunes of many of this season’s events with Reading tickets selling for less than face value on the secondary market and audiences being spread thin by a combi- nation of a lack on new acts on the bills and increased competition (there were 715 events last year in the UK alone) other festivals and businesses have already been marked for Power’s expansion – watch this space! Talking about making money from music - there was a time when lots of people did you know! – I see that Forbes, the US mag- azine that concerns itself with the fortunes (literally) of the rich and famous has pro- duced a new list of the highest earners in the music business (we’ve included the list just in case you’re interested or might be thinking of calling on someone to borrow a few dollars, pounds or Euros!). The first thing that is obvious is that, even though there have been drop offs in concert ticket 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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So there I was, crossing a wide and fast flowing river on bridge that looked per-fectly solid from the river bank but began to sway from side to side in a strangely disturbing fashion when supporting the weight of a man in full Scottish highland dress playing the bagpipes and being followed by a trail of music industry folk looking forward to the first drink of the evening. I was however temporarily dis-tracted from concerns about the stability of the bridge by the sight of the man up to his chest in the centre of this rushing river unconcernedly wielding a very substantial fishing rod and also wearing a highland ‘bunnet’ while he attempted to catch fish on their way to the one and only Loch Ness. Scottish seagulls were of course hanging around looking for a chance to steal any-thing he caught! No, I wasn’t dreaming or under the influence, I was of course in In-verness at this year’s edition of Go North, a fine event!(See report in this issue)
The Festival season has kicked off with the weather again playing its leading part; in the UK the Isle of Wight Festival had a sunny Saturday but suffered from heavy rain and low temperatures on the Sunday, but by all reports high spirits prevailed, with the reformed Pulp scoring a big hit.At the other end of the meteorological scale across the Atlantic at the Bonnaroo
Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, temperatures stayed in the 90s (F), 30s (C) for almost the whole four days of the event, with reports of about 1,500 of the 80,000 attendees being treated for heat-related illnesses. Two deaths were reported, whether or not these were as a result of the heat was still to be confirmed. Lets hope the rest of the season wherever festivals takes place, stays free of such un-fortunate casualties, and that the weather gods are kind.
In other festival news the irrepressible Vince Power, the man who set up the Mean Fiddler in the 1980s, is going public with his festival interests; Benicassim in Spain, the Hop Farm Music Festival in Kent and the first Feis Festival in London, (I’m off to see Bob Dylan there tonight - as I write)
collectively known, strangely enough, as Music Festivals. Encouraged by a Hop Farm sell-out with Prince, extending this year’s edition in July by a day, Power has filed the application for Music Festival’s admission to Aim, the London Stock Exchange’s inter-national market for smaller growing com-panies, which will raise £6.5m. (See Busi-ness News in this issue) Although there are some worries being expressed about the fortunes of many of this season’s events with Reading tickets selling for less than face value on the secondary market and audiences being spread thin by a combi-nation of a lack on new acts on the bills and increased competition (there were 715 events last year in the UK alone) other festivals and businesses have already been marked for Power’s expansion – watch this space!
Talking about making money from music - there was a time when lots of people did you know! – I see that Forbes, the US mag-azine that concerns itself with the fortunes (literally) of the rich and famous has pro-duced a new list of the highest earners in the music business (we’ve included the list just in case you’re interested or might be thinking of calling on someone to borrow a few dollars, pounds or Euros!). The first thing that is obvious is that, even though there have been drop offs in concert ticket
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buying, these days the best way to make big bucks in the music business is tour-ing. The lists of the top earners are very similar to the lists of top grossing tours - U2, Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga and Michael Bublé are all in the top five. How accurate these figures are is of course in question, but according to Forbes, they represent pre-tax income earned from May 2010 to May 2011, before subtracting agent and manager fees (they’d be interesting to see!). As well as compiling data from Pollstar, RIAA and others, apparently lawyers, managers, concert promoters, agents and, in some cases, the musi-cians themselves were interviewed – so the figures must be completely accurate – right?! 68 year old Granddad Paul Mc-Cartney’s in there, but so is that young whippersnapper Justin Bieber – what do you do with those millions when you’re 17? The Americans are as usual ahead of the game with 17 of them in the list - although hang on, one might be Cana-dian…
Well, I’d better bring this to a close and let you all get on with making your mil-lions – but only after you’ve read this is-sue of The News! We won’t be here next month, but we’ll be back in August, so seriously I wish you all sunshine and suc-cess in the next few weeks!
Forbes list of the world’s 25 highest-paid musicians
1. U2 2. Bon Jovi 3. Elton John $100 million 4. Lady Gaga $90 million 5. Michael Buble ($70 million) 6. Paul McCartney ($67 million) 7. Black Eyed Peas ($61 million) 8. Eagles ($60 million) 9. Justin Bieber ($53 million) 10. Dave Matthews Band ($51 million) 11. Toby Keith ($50 million) 12. Usher ($46 million) 13. Taylor Swift $45 million) 14. Katy Perry ($44 million) 15. Brad Paisley ($40 million) 16. Tom Petty & the Heartbreaks ($38 million) 17. Jay-Z ($38 million) 18. AC/DC ($35 million) 18. Sean “Diddy” Combs ($35 million) 18. Beyonce ($35 million) 18. Tim McGraw ($35 million) 18. Muse ($35 million) 23. Rascal Flatts ($34 million) 24. Kenny Chesney ($30 million) 25. Rihanna ($29 million)
VIP-News: Germany now ranks as the third biggest music market for recorded music in the world. Does this fact have any im-pact on Reeperbahn Campus, do you ex-pect more international visitors?
Detlef Schwarte: Yes, we are expecting
more international guests, but this is pri-
marily due to the growing importance of
the Reeperbahn Festival as a spring board
for new international acts and as platform
for industry people to meet and network.
However the consideration that Germany
now seems to be biggest market in Europe
might give even more tailwind.
VIP-News: What about German visitors, who are they and from which part of the music industry do they come from?
Schwarte: We are cooperating closely with
some of the most important organizations
of the music industry in Germany, e.g. the
Association of German Promoters (bdv)
and the Association of German Publish-
ers (DMV). So besides lots of label people,
managers and agents these fields will be
well represented.
VIP-News: Who else makes up the partner network of Reeperbahn Campus?
Schwarte: There are dozens of partners
who take the opportunity to be part of
the Reeperbahn Campus and to present
themselves to the rest of the music and
live biz industry or just to meet internally.
There are international organizations like
IMMF, Yourope or Network Europe who
are having meetings at Reeperbahn and
several Music Export Offices will attend
and present showcases. Other partners
like SXSW or the European Broadcast Un-
ion will have receptions within the scope
of the Reeperbahn Campus.
VIP-News: Who are the main target groups for Reeperbahn Campus?
»We are expecting more than 1500, about one third being
international guests from more than 20 nations«
- Detlef Schwarte
Schwarte: Delegates are mainly from the
music and live entertainment industry and
media. We are expecting more than 1500,
about one third being international guests
from more than 20 nations.
VIP-News: Can you already tell us what are this year’s main conference issues for Reeperbahn Campus?
Schwarte: As in the previous years we
will again try to cover the most important
and immediate topics that are currently
moving the music and live entertainment
industry and not to lose ourselves in too
much general talking. So we will have
discussions about trends at Festivals and
Ticketing, Keynotes and presentations
about how to monetize music in the future
and - as a national focus - we will review
how politics might support Pop in Ger-
many. And as in the last years a highlight
will definitely be Ray’s Reeperbahn Revue
- three shows nonpareil in Europe.
VIP-News: Reeperbahn Campus is linked with the Reeperbahn Festival. How does that work and what should we know about the Reeperbahn Festival?
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both within the region and eventu-
ally coming to Eurosonic. We feel
that if you look at the ETEP results,
there are not enough acts coming
from this region represented in the
results and we want to boost that.
Together with our partners Sziget
Festival and Exit Festival we devel-
oped a programme where we feel,
and we will have to see it in the com-
ing years, that we are able to help
acts from the Central Eastern market
to cross borders, like I said, both in
the region itself and beyond to the
western part of Europe.
VIP-News: What happens to the po-litical impact of ETEP, does it change your work a lot, does it mean you have to go to Brussels more often? And is the perception of ETEP in Brus-sels a different one than before?
Smidt: I can’t say that at this moment
because we are currently working to
establish some of the new items, so I
cannot judge that yet.
VIP-News: What about other music-industry partners, such as music publishers or the record-companies. Do they ever approach you to say that they are pleased with the results of ETEP?
Smidt: Hmm…actually no! Well, if
I were a record-company, I would
stay very close to the results of ETEP
because basically the ETEP-program
does a lot of the things that usually
a record-company would undertake.
And I’m surprised that no record-
companies are working on this.
VIP-News: Do you think that may change in the future?
Smidt: I have no clue. One more
thing, that is interesting, we’re
guarded as regards the political im-
pact but its too early in time to tell
right now. But what I hope is that in
Central Eastern-Europe, because of
the fact that ETEP is running with the
festivals at the moment when some
of the acts began to have some suc-
cess, then I think it’s time to involve
governments and copyright-collec-
tion societies in this area and say,
hey, this is what is happening, this is
what we are doing, it might be some
advantage in you joining and help-
ing. But it’s too short now, you know,
we can only do that in two years time
or something like that.
VIP-News: Until now it’s the case that the live music industry is not organized like CESAC for copyright collection societies or the IFPI in the recording-industry and there is no joint European body that looks af-ter the political interest of the live music industry. Could you imagine that ETEP could be a helpful tool in helping to develop such an organi-sation?
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