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Here we are then with the first Magazine of 2016. Of course the

first shock of the year was the death of David Bowie, and it really

is a shock when artists of Bowie’s stature pass on, they begin to

be considered immortal. My own memory of him concerned the

first ever concert promotion I was involved in, which was in 1969,

it took place at The Brighton Dome and featured headliners The

Edgar Broughton Band, supported by a long haired (of course!)

singer songwriter playing twelve string guitar, strangely I recall

that he was introduced as David Jones, although Space Oddity had

just become a hit, and he was then known as David Bowie.

Having seen the departure of Lemmy to take his place with the

rock gods, or wherever he decided to land up late last year, this

year is not starting well, besides Bowie, Glenn Frey, co-founder

and guitarist of the Eagles has passed on, as has Maurice White,

founder of Earth, Wind and Fire, they all leave a legacy. Also Dale

Griffin, original drummer of Mott the Hoople lost his battle with

illness recently.

The VIP team were all in rainy and reasonably cold Holland earlier

this month for the thirtieth edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag, in

Groningen. This very attractive University City apparently has the

highest average number of young people in the Netherlands, so

I thought I should go and alter the figures a bit by adding a bit

of age! Talking of age, much is said about older musicians still

holding on to the top touring spots; I notice for instance that Sting

and Peter Gabriel are to tour together – mutual support perhaps?

During the Agent’s panel at Eurosonic Jeff Craft of X-Ray Touring

– tongue in cheek of course, inferred that agents may have to turn

to euthanasia to clear their rosters of older musicians and acts that

refuse to go quietly to make room for new talents.

Whether looking back over the development of the business, as

we do in this issue’s report on Eurosonic, or looking to future

development as hopefully we do when considering the development

of new talent through ETEP, the EBBAS (see report in this issue) or

the work of aspiring gents, managers and artists, the main reality

is of course the present. During my keynote interview with leading

German promoter Marek Lieberberg at Eurosonic, I was struck

by his phrase when referring to his method of operation which

concentrated on the now, he said “ We are all moving through

the corridor of today” – A good line I thought, I did ask about the

T-Shirt rights, but we moved on to more important things like his

recent deal with Live Nation. All in all a very interesting interview!

One of the original intentions of Eurosonic’s Peter Smidt with

the ETEP programme was to overthrow the Anglo-American acts

stranglehold on the live circuit in Europe, although this hasn’t

entirely been achieved, great progress has been made. But it’s

interesting to note that Pollstar Pro’s annual year-end report

informs us that of last year’s highest-grossing worldwide concert

tours, just four American artists – Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney,

Foo Fighters and Taylor Swift – place in the top 10 (at ninth, eight,

fifth and first, respectively), with the remaining six spots taken up

by bands hailing at least partially from the United Kingdom…

The Sunday Times released their list of the top 500 most influential

people in the UK at the weekend, and just to show that we move in

the right circles, the list included Phil Bowdery of Live Nation who

took part in the ‘The International Ticket Figures 2015’ panel at

Eurosonic, which I enjoyed moderating, and Emma Banks of CAA

who we shared a table with at The European Festival Awards. Now

I only need to become intimate with the other 498 and there’ll be

no stopping me achieving fame and fortune in the UK!

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CONTENTS:03 Allan McGowan’s Musings

05 Roskilde Festival CEO announces his departure

06 Progress Reports

10 Russia proposes new Live Industry regulations

12 Promoter Thomas Ovesen Joins Al Ahli Group as CEO of 117 Live

16 European Festival Awards

18 “Where’s the Music’ 2nd Edition

20 Warner sells UK headquarter

22 Women in business

24 British band die in car crash in Sweden

26 Neil Warnock keynote speaker at Midem

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After being in charge of Roskilde Festival

for three decades, Henrik Rasmussen

announced that 2016 will be his last year as

CEO of Roskilde Festival Group.

- I have made my decision, because I believe

that the time is right. Today we have a strong

organization and management, we are

well on the way with developing our other

business areas and we have optimized the

festival, so it is well prepared for the future

in a competitive market.

As said many times, I believe that the last two

festivals have been among the very best ever.

So I feel confident in passing the leadership

on, says Henrik Rasmussen, who has been

part of management since 1986 and was the

festival`s first full time employee.

Henrik Rasmussen will continue in his current

role until January 1st 2017, leaving the board

plenty of time to find his replacement.

Chairman of the board at Roskilde Festival

Steen Jørgensen added “Henrik Rasmussen`s

decision to stop is a natural step in the

development process we have worked on. It

is therefore not entirely new for us on the

board and we have great understanding and

respect for his decision, although it is with

some sadness that we have accepted it.

Henrik has been in the top management

of the Festival group for 3 decades, so one

could say that it is the end of an era but it also

reflects an organization that is developing,

and we fully agree that the organization is

well prepared for a change, not least thanks

to Henrik”

ROSKILDE FESTIVAL CEO ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE

Henrik Rasmussen

From VIP-Daily News


Professor Peter Schwenkow

– CEO, DEAG Germany

What were the highlights of your year, and

what are your conclusions regarding the state

of the business in general?

Highlight of 2015 was surely the start of our

festivals Rock in Vienna, Rockavaria in Munich

and Rock im Revier in Gelsenkirchen.

Please let us know your outlook and

expectations for 2016…

The business seems to stay very healthy, as

Christmas sales have been terrific.

Karsten Jahnke

– Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion GmbH




The Stadtpark season was very successful – 12

sold out shows. The amazing long tour with

Johannes Oerding. The tour with Michael

Wollny, Gregory Porter, Cypress Hill, Kamasi

Washington.. Wu-Tang Clan.



We are happy that THE CURE will be on tour

with us. Herman van Veen will do another

long tour. Al Jarreau & The NDR BIGBAND

will do another tour with us.

Way Back When will happen again!

Rob Hallett

– Robomagic UK

Highlights 2015:

Duran Duran album and tour. Grace in the top

5 future megastar.

Highlights in 2016:

2016 will be a buoyant touring year with

lots already announced and more breaking

through. Exciting times!

Ben Challis

– Charming Music Limited /

Glastonbury Festival UK

My highlight of the year was enjoying

another marvelous Glastonbury Festival, with

Lionel Richie’s Sunday afternoon show, just

after Patti Smith and the Dalai Lama, being

a fantastic performance from a great artiste.

Overall the live sector remains healthy - and

in some ways the real focus in the music

industry has been on the rapid changes

in the digital sphere - with Spotify, Apple

Music and Pandora all fighting for market

share, and behind that, the music publishers,

songwriters and artistes starting to battle

with the major record labels for a fairer share

of the digital pie. But the ongoing onslaught

in the UK on small music venues, from

rampant development, one-dimensional

planning laws and, in London at least, a lack

of support for clubs and small venues from

local authorities, remains a real worry.

Going forwards, the on going success of the

festival market has created its own problems:

secondary ticketing is an ongoing drain on

revenues, and festivals, often operating on

tiny margins, now face the looming problem

of the avarice the Valuation Office here in the

UK, and a impending review of the UK’s Tariff

LP for live events by PRS for Music, adding

to concerns that these and similar moves

will badly damage a sector that attracts

Manfred Tari [email protected]

tourists, creates jobs, and which clearly

enriches communities above and beyond the

enjoyment live events provide for festival fans.

Detlef Schwarte

– Reeperbahn Festival




As promoter of an event that serves all parts

of the music sector, I consider the recent

publication of a research study that covers and

evaluated for the first time ever market figures

for the entire German music market as highly

relevant. I very much hope that this study will

enable better and more qualified analysis when

it comes to comparisons with other segments

within the creative industries in Germany and

perhaps even on a European level.



From a general point of view the develop-

ment of better framework conditions for the


PROGRESS REPORTSAs we all know the international live music industry has had it’s share of difficult and

distressing events in 2015. At the end of the year we asked some of our readers to let us,

and you, know how things have been for them in 2015 and their expectations to 2016:

Ben Challis Detlef Schwarte

various parts of the music business remains

a challenging issue for all of us. In particular

more reliable regulations providing a better

protection of copyright protected repertoire on

a European level, significant improved earnings

for artists for recorded music, a much better

engagement by politicians in favour of keeping

concert clubs and other cultural activities alive.

Last not least I wish that the industry as well as

artists will raise their voices, proactively joining

political debates encouraging the improvement

of overall societal issues, ensuring that music

gains again a meaningful voice within our

society...

Martin Elbourne – Glastonbury Festival,

The Great Escape, UK

Pretty much everything I was involved with sold

out. Particularly good TGE and Glastonbury.

Sat night in Pune (city in India - 5 million

people 2 hours south of Mumbai. Probably

fastest growing in India) buzz for nh7 festival

was amazing !

PROGRESS REPORTS Doing the inaugural Music Cities Conventions

in Brighton and Washington DC also

highlights. We appear to have worldwide

movement now of good people wanting

to create better cities using music as key

component, so that’s an exciting development

for world wide music eco system.

I wouldn’t want to put on festival that was

entirely reliant on its line up. Those days have

gone!

…And Bristol Rovers winning play - offs at

Wembley!

As for next year I don’t really see anything

dramatic happening..Transparency stuff will

slowly edge forward. Music cities related

stuff will progress

- EDM thing has peaked.

- Festival market stabilising but growing

outside Europe.

- Old school festivals that just do bands and

burgers dead.

- More growth in urban multi venue festivals.

- But no more conferences please!

- More consolidation in agency world, and

possibly in management world.

Hilde Spille

– Paperclip Agency, Holland

My highlights in 2015:

The European tours for Jill Barber and

Chloe Charles. As Compass for Creatives

I introduced the online workshop 5

Empowerment Tools for musicians, with

great reactions from participants to an article

about it in IQ Magazine.

State of the business in general:

There is a lot of really great talent, developing

it is more and more difficult. Festivals are

looking for hypes and well known artists,

venues are booking less concerts.

Outlook and expectations for 2016:

I’m developing other workshops for

musicians and will introduce them in 2016.

I’m looking forward to a Dutch tour of Sass

Jordan in January and a European tour for

Matt Epp in January/February.

Karsten Jahnke

Detlef Schwarte

Rob Hallett

Martin Elbourne Hilde Spille

Peter Schwenkow


Rob Challice – CODA Agency, UK

Highlight of my year?

Seeing Ezra Furman smash it at a sold out

London Shepherds Bush Empire. Life affirming

stuff. Rise of the underdog!

State of business:

Still cannot believe that the industry has not

dealt with leaches like Viagogo and Get Me in.

They really are a stain on the business.

Let’s see more Adele/Songkick type ticket

situations. And if we have to have a discussion

about more dynamic ticketing, fine. No more

ticket “touting” though.

Rob Berends

– Paperclip Agency, Holland

Highlights 2015:

Shows by King Champion Sounds, Buzzcocks,

Musée Mécanique.

State of the Business:

The business in general is making enough

money, but unfortunately only with major

artists and major events. The food chain (that

grows the talent of the future) is even more

under threat. For Bob Sillerman (SFX) 2015 was

his well-deserved ‘payback time’, showing

that all he ever did to the live music business is

fundamentally flawed.

Highlights 2016:

I’ve recently signed three bands for European

agency representation: Bent Knee (USA),

Blind Idiot God (USA), and Leeways (NLD;

winner of the Dutch Rock Contest 2014;

debut album out now). Bent Knee will tour

Europe in the summer; Blind Idiot God will

tour Europe in April (3 weeks including

Roadburn Festival); the multicultural band

Leeways will play all over The Netherlands

again in the festival season (over 150 shows

played even before their debut album was

released) with their irresistible mix of reggae

and ska, hiphop, funk and rock.

As a Dutch promoter, in 2016 I will present

(among others) 10cc (six fully seated shows

in March; ticket sales are very strong),

Buzzcocks, Antilopen Gang.

The festival season will become even longer,

with more festivals, and the venues/clubs-

season will become even shorter, with

dangerous effects for the livelihood of these

clubs and venues.

Gordon Masson

– Editor IQ Magazine, UK

My personal highlight of the year was my

trip to Pohoda Festival in Slovakia, which has

become my favourite festival in the calendar

– there are always a fascinating bunch of

friends, old and new, to hang out with,

while Michal Kascak’s team manage to outdo

themselves year-on-year with a programme

that truly sums up the beauty of music. Where

else would you see an Israeli act (Lola Marsh)

on the main stage, followed immediately by

Syrian singer Omar Souleyman?!

My other highlights, believe it or not,

involve the various conferences and shows

I am privileged to be invited to and speak

at – this year these included Eurosonic, the

International Live Music Conference (ILMC),

Reeperbahn, the International Festival

Forum, Waves Bratislava and Sonic Visions.

When I hear other people complaining about

their jobs, it always reminds me how lucky I

am to be involved in live music – even if it is

just on the peripheries. But meeting friends,

colleagues and all sorts of creative geniuses

from every conceivable corner of the world,

who are united by a common love for music,

is wonderful. There’s nothing I love more

than some random person I have just met

dragging me off to see a new rap act from

Bulgaria in a club I’ve never heard of before.

Karsten Schölermann

LIVE KOMM – Hamburg, Germany

What were the highlights of your year?

For the first time we got a €1,5 million subsidy

for the ‘Digitalisation’ of Music Clubs” from

BKM (Bundeskulturministerium). For the first

time we had a survey letting us know that

the grassroots venues in Germany raised a

total of about €221 million in turnover - 2%

of music industries overall - but only 1%

profit within.

What are your conclusions regarding the

state of the business in general?

No extra expenses possible without losing

money.

Rob Challice Rob Berends Gordon Masson Rense Van Kessel




More Expenses – (After Paris: Extra Security!)

will lead to grassroots-clubs closing.

Rense Van Kessel

– Friendly Fire, Holland

We had a fantastic year actually.Notable

highlight was our domestic pride

Kensington doing two sold out shows at

the Ziggodome (34.000 tickets), we went

on sale with 3 Ziggodomes for them for

2016 just after this year’s shows and have

already sold 90%! It is fantastic that ‘our

own’ music is becoming so strong and

such incredible business.

Ville Leppanen

– The Animal Farm, London


what are your conclusions regarding the

state of the business in general?

My professional highlight was bringing Little

Brother Eli to Reeperbahn Festival and seeing

them blow away a crowd that had never

heard of them. The deals the ensued were a

bonus. My personal highlight was making it

through to the last 16 in the European Squash

Masters Championship, out of a field of 128

players from across Europe... ;-)



Guitar solos will make a long awaited return.

Stefan Lohmann – Talent Buyer & Booking

Agent – Hamburg, Germany

Highlights of this year:

My main business is my work as a talent

buyer / artist relationship manager for event

agencies and event organizers, brands and

cultural festivals. I do this for events like

the German Sustainability Award www.

nachhaltigkeitspreis.de with artists like Art

Garfunkel, Nelly Furtado, Annie Lennox,

Karsten Schölermann Ville Leppanen Stefan Lohmann

Scorpions, Anastacia, Marlon Roudette, Ute

Lemper, Roachford, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Robin

Gibb and many more

I founded a new concert series: Festspiele in

concert – which will take place in 2016 for

the first time as part of the Bad Hersfelder

Festspiele - Artists this year Johannes Oerding

and Jan Josef Liefers – Radio Doria – we sold

out within few hours. - We already started to

look for suitable artists in 2017 and we are

also interested to bring international artists to

Bad Hersfeld.

The location „Stiftsruine“ is amazing and the

media reach out is unbelievable.

And last but not least I founded a new

Orchestra: the Berlin Show Orchestra.

This orchestra is young and fresh and is able

to create a authentic sound from classical

music to David Guetta with the best musicians

from Berlin (played for Udo Lindenberg,

Sido, Munich Symphonic orchestra …) The

premiere show at ‘Tag der Deutschen Einheit’

presented and organized by Hessischer

Rundfunk in front of 10.000 people was a

huge success.

Organizer and the special Guests like Jimmy

Somerville, Howard Jones and Nik Kershaw

were amazed.

Also the show at the German Sustainability

Award was a huge success. Ute Lemper

felt inspired by the orchestra, Marlon loved

especially the strings in the arrangement the

orchestra did for his No1 Hits.

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Russian legislators have proposed new regulations for the live

entertainment industry, under which a self-monitoring organization

of promoters, to be titled Soyuzkontsert, will be formed.

Aimed to improve the sector`s operations generally, the proposed

regulations outline greater responsibility for promoters around

customer care.

Promoters that have already joined the organizations include SAV

Entertainment, PMI and NCA, while other major players in the sector

are expected to join.

Industry insiders say that the organization would make the industry

more professional and efficient. The proposals include:

– Creating an emergency fund to cover expenses for cancelled shows

– Forming a disciplinary commission that will assess professional standards of industry players

– Liaising with local authorities to avoid

cancellations of show at their demand

“The creation of a self-regulating organization is a natural step as the

live entertainment industry moves towards greater professionalism,

Similar professional organizations exist in many countries,” said

Dmitry Bogachev, head of the company Stage Entertainment,. “And,

similarly to them, we shouldn`t restrict ourselves to formal regulation

of relations with consumers.”

According to Bogachev, companies in the live entertainment sector

have many common goals and tasks that the new organization could

address, such as regulating relations between partners, lobbying

the industry`s interests, competing with cinema and television for

customers and tackling contemporary challenges related to security

issues. The organization also plans to deal with such issues as

simplifying the process of obtaining visas for touring foreign artists

and resolving taxation issues related to their fees.

The regulatory push arrives during a difficult period. An overall

economic downturn in the country has hit many promoters,

especially those who specialize in booking in foreign artists. The ruble

hit an all-time low this week against the US dollar and – as foreign

acts` fees are largely negotiated in US dollars and Euros while ticket

prices are in rubles – promoters assume big risks organizing shows

by most foreign artists.

Legislators are expected to adopt the new regulations in early 2016.

RUSSIA PROPOSES NEW LIVE INDUSTRY REGULATIONS

From VIP-Daily News

PROMOTER THOMASOVESEN

JOINS AL AHLI GROUP

AS CEO OF 117 LIVE

On

December 1st, Thomas

Ovesen, one of the leading

live events promoters in the

Middle East was announced as

CEO of the newly created 117

Live.

117 Live is part of the Al Ahil Holding

Group, a Dubai based conglomerate led by

Group CEO Mohammed Khammas that has built a large media and

entertainment portfolio over the past few years. The appointment

of Ovesen to run 117 Live is the next stage of the group’s growing

media and entertainment empire. Based in Dubai, Thomas will take

on this post effective immediately. He will direct all global activity

for the division with a focus on live events, from music through to

comedy. He will also head up plans to expand the new division’s

interests into local and international talent management, venue

management and programming.

AAHG has recently undertaken a huge diversification drive. This has

included the purchase of social marketing agency The Audience, a

company that represents some of the most influential social media

stars in the world. The group controls Singapore-based Universal

Events that hosts the Asia Pop ComiCon events, which recently

launched in the Philippines and will soon be rolled out in Korea,

Singapore, the US and the UAE.

Creating spaces to host events will be a key part of the 117 Live

strategy. This will begin with the immediate launch of a temporary

20,000 capacity greenfield site. 2017 will see the launch of a new

state of the art 25,000 capacity open air Amphitheatre in Dubai,

wholly

owned by

AAHG. The venue, featuring pavilion hosted boxes,

suites and terraces will be the only one of its kind in the

Middle East. Construction will begin in early 2016, dramatically

increasing the number of events able to be staged in the region.

Thomas Ovesen has produced award-winning events across the

Middle East, introducing new festivals like RedFestDXB and Blended

to the UAE market and staging shows with superstars like Beyonce,

Shakira and R Kelly. He has promoted shows with Prince and Take

That and staged sell out Dubai concerts with the likes of J-LO, Justin

Bieber, Usher, One Direction, Katy Perry and many more. He has

helped position Dubai as a regular tour stop for international artists

and bands. VIP News spoke to him about his new position.

As far as I’m aware you have some twenty years of experience

with live events in the Middle East, and you have been very

open at events like ILMC about the problems facing the

markets - why do you think that now is a good time to be

starting up such an ambitious project? You must think that

the demand is there.

– i don’t necessarily think now is a better time than last year or next

year to both set up a large live events focused company and build

a $40-50 million open air venue, but short of an indoor purpose

built arena it is the game changer we need to develop the local live

events busines. So it is a matter of getting our hands on more of the

live events value chain to derive a better profit margin from what in



many cases is currently a loss making exercise. Through increased

volume and frequency of live events we can save show costs that

can help finance the increase in business volume and hopefully

also help us bring down the very high show ticket prices here

in the Middle East.

Once al ahli group had agreed to under write not only the

venue build but also the set up of a live events division

able to both program the venue and produce live events

in the key Middle East, Asian and Americas markets it was

an obvious choice to move my live team across to what is

117live.

Having access to the right venues always seemed to

be difficult in the area. Will these plans to do something

about this make a big difference?

– ours will be a great addition to a Dubai market with no purpose

built venues bigger than a few thousand capacity and with a

location that is dead centre of the uae hopefully making it the

preferred venue for local annual events and touring artists from

2017 and onward.

As we will also launch a temporary 20,000 greenfield venue from

march 2016 we will be able to slowly ramp up the volume of

events staged here. By doing so we will hopefully not only convince

current event organisers to move their events to our venue, but also

encourage new promoters to stage events as we lower the bar of

entry to an industry currently challenged by absence of venues, top

line taxation and the excessive artist fees being offered by marketing

or government underwritten events and leisure venues.

Do you think that you can assure international touring acts (as

much as anyone can, anywhere these days!) That you can offer

secure shows in these difficult times?

– seems to me that times are perhaps even more difficult for my

colleagues in paris and elsewhere than here with me, and whilst it

would be foolish not to constantly assess security levels i don’t think

Dubai here in the Middle East or my new Asia markets in general are

more exposed to security risks than any major city in the western

world so as Dubai and key cities in Asia represent both perfect stop

over options and gateways to large, young fan communities and new

tour markets i am comfortable that as long as we can manage to

bring down costs per events we can keep attracting touring talents

also in increased numbers.

You are considering working on the development of local

artists. Is there a lot of talent to be developed?

– With sister companies like the audience and rethink, regional

comicon events etc we are exposed to new entertainment trends

and social media based talents as well as the need to provide pop

culture events and entertainment parks with talents across our target

markets. So understanding who are the relevant talents in such

markets and for our target audience members, combined with the

ability to maximise the appearance and the booking fees for talent

plus owning some of the upsides from the exposure our group can

offer all parties i think it is only natural that we get involved with

development, management and representation of talents from

grassroots level and up.

Whether we develop our own set up, partner with local and

international agencies and management companies or a mix of

all will be decided as we have discussions with a range of parties

in the coming months. As we are ready to invest and add value

to the business utilising the varous group outfits i think we could

be a great partner or incubator for existing businesses or serious

competitor to outfits not currently able to offer a multi facetted

service or/and multi market approach.

What are you most looking forward to developing and

hopefully achieving with 117 live - what are your priorities for

2016?

– first we need to get the shows i have been

working on for the past months rolled out

and with my long time live team members

onboard i look forward to some well

organised and successful 2016 Dubai

concerts – we also need to continue

the expansion of the Asia pop comi

con events after the 2015 manila

launch by our group and besides

the small (;-) task of launching the

temp 20,000 cap venue followed

by the 25,000 2017 state of the art

amphitheatre we have to support the

growth of other group verticals and indeed

acquisition of new group partners so 2016 will not

be a quite year but one full of activities and opportunities. Back t o

live events in the Dubai and Asia markets i would like to see a major

comedy commitment resulting n regional tours of Middle East and

Asia as well as some key live music events staged in Asia.

is there anything you’d like to add?

– 117live is a build on, yet a major expansion of what i have created

at arab media group as done events and i will continue also booking

and producing the redfestdxb festival i launched there as well as

provide talent bookings for my old employer. But having assets like

a dubai venue and in-house partners like the audience available will

represent the major change not only for me and my team but for

the live entertainment industry we will hopefully become a great

part of in the Middle East, Asia and the Americas.


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Agent of the Year Emma Banks (CAA)

The 7th edition of the European Festival

Awards took place on the opening night

of Eurosonic , presented by Glaston bury

lawyer Ben Challis and IQ Magazine Editor

Gordon Masson the winners were:



Best Major FestivalUntold Festival

Best Medium-Sized FestivalTelekom Volt Festival

Best Small FestivalHappiness Festival

Best New FestivalLollapalooza Berlin

Best Indoor FestivalLes Transardentes

Festival Anthem of the YearMajor Lazer – Lean On

Newcomerof the YearHozier

Best HeadlinerThe Prodigy

Best Line UpSziget

Artists’FavouriteFestivalRock Werchter

Promoter of the YearHorstmann Unternehmensgruppe

Agent of the YearEmma Banks (CAA)

GreenOperations AwardTollwood Festival

Yes Group H&SInnoation AwardDas Fest

Excellence andPassion AwardChris Kemp

LifetimeAchievement AwardJean-Louis Brossardand Beatrice Macé(Trans-MusicaleFestival:France)



Adrian Lux, Agent Blå, Albin Lee Meldau, Ali Khamis, Ana Diaz, Anti Pony, Apollo 5, Avec Sans (UK), Baby In Vain (DK), Black Temple, Blaue Blume (DK), Billie the Vision & the Dancer, CHANCVN, Charlie Cunningham (UK), Chinah,

Chain Wallet (NO), Cilia, Dajana, Death Team, Den Svenska Björnstammen, Djurparken, Drivvedsfolket, Emil Berg, Emil Jensen, Emilie Ramirez (DK), En Drös Poeter, Erik Lundin, Erik Rapp, Girls Names (UK), Gnu c ci, Grand Theft

Culture, Great Garb, Grimner, Hanna Leess (US), Ida Long, Ikhana, Imperial State Electric, Iron Lamb, Jakob Karlberg, Jordan Klassen (CAN), Julia Adams, Karakou, Katohjärta, Khoe, Kriget, Lindi Ortega, Little Jinder, Livet på faktura,

Lost Society (FIN), Luntgatan Girls, Maasai, Maj Monet, Mares, Markus Hägg, Maria Andersson, Maria Hazell, Martin Rubashov, Mass Murder Agenda, Matriarkatet, Mavrick, Maxida Märak, Mayka, Melina Borglowe,

Michel Dida, Miriam Bryant, Model Aeroplanes (UK), Mwuana, Nadja Evelina, Natali Felicia, Nicole Sabouné, Nightbird (FI), Night Lovell (CAN), Norde, Nüme, Okay Kaya (NO), Oskar Syk, Pale Honey, Panda Da Panda,

Parham, Parker Lewis, Parker Lewis, Postaal (FR/UK), Psykofant, Riwen, Sabina Ddumba, Sa’ra Charismata, Sebjak, Skander, Slaughter Beach (DK), Sigala (UK), S!VAS (DK), Sudakistan, Syster Björk, Teen Daze (CAN),

Tensta Gospel Choir, Tellavision (GER), The Magnettes, Titiyo, The Unguided, This Is Head, Traktor, Tussilago, Unge Ferrari (NO) Venior (FI), Very Addictive, Viagra Boys, Vidar, Vigiland, Viola Beach (UK), Vånna Inget


2ND EDITION

The VIP team travels took us to the very attractive city of Norrköping in

South-East Sweden for the second edition of “Where’s the Music’ which

took place from February 11-13. The Conference and City Festival event

is organized by the Stockholm office of FKP Scorpio, whose stated aim

and focus for the festival was to, “…create a space for new bands to

showcase themselves for both the public and the music industry.”

This edition attracted 4702 festival visitors to see 120 acts across ten

venues, with all the shows on the Thursday night selling out. The or-

ganisers stated, “We believe firmly in the bands that played at all fes-

tival venues, and it is great to see that the audience has found the

festival’s core. This year, festival audiences really explored the all bands

on ten stages located across the city with no more than a ten minute

walk from each venue..”

471 international delegates attended 17 panels, workshops and

speeches in the Louis De Geer Concert & Congress Hall. Amongst the

featured speakers were, award winning US music supervisor Mary Ra-

mos, Diana Rodriguez of Criteria Entertainment, the first woman to

lead a Latin label in the US, and music industry veteran Carl Leighton-

Pope, agent for acts such as Michael Bouble and Brian Adams. The

well attended panels covered, synchronization, streaming, touring in

the Nordics, ticketing and other topics.

Project Manager Jonas Fläckerud told VIP News, “We took a really big

step of setting up a February, winter conference event and showcase

FESTIVALLINEUP

Adrian Lux, Agent Blå, Albin Lee Meldau, Ali Khamis, Ana Diaz, Anti Pony, Apollo 5, Avec Sans (UK), Baby In Vain (DK), Black Temple, Blaue Blume (DK), Billie the Vision & the Dancer, CHANCVN, Charlie Cunningham (UK), Chinah,

Chain Wallet (NO), Cilia, Dajana, Death Team, Den Svenska Björnstammen, Djurparken, Drivvedsfolket, Emil Berg, Emil Jensen, Emilie Ramirez (DK), En Drös Poeter, Erik Lundin, Erik Rapp, Girls Names (UK), Gnu c ci, Grand Theft

Culture, Great Garb, Grimner, Hanna Leess (US), Ida Long, Ikhana, Imperial State Electric, Iron Lamb, Jakob Karlberg, Jordan Klassen (CAN), Julia Adams, Karakou, Katohjärta, Khoe, Kriget, Lindi Ortega, Little Jinder, Livet på faktura,

Lost Society (FIN), Luntgatan Girls, Maasai, Maj Monet, Mares, Markus Hägg, Maria Andersson, Maria Hazell, Martin Rubashov, Mass Murder Agenda, Matriarkatet, Mavrick, Maxida Märak, Mayka, Melina Borglowe,

Michel Dida, Miriam Bryant, Model Aeroplanes (UK), Mwuana, Nadja Evelina, Natali Felicia, Nicole Sabouné, Nightbird (FI), Night Lovell (CAN), Norde, Nüme, Okay Kaya (NO), Oskar Syk, Pale Honey, Panda Da Panda,

Parham, Parker Lewis, Parker Lewis, Postaal (FR/UK), Psykofant, Riwen, Sabina Ddumba, Sa’ra Charismata, Sebjak, Skander, Slaughter Beach (DK), Sigala (UK), S!VAS (DK), Sudakistan, Syster Björk, Teen Daze (CAN),

Tensta Gospel Choir, Tellavision (GER), The Magnettes, Titiyo, The Unguided, This Is Head, Traktor, Tussilago, Unge Ferrari (NO) Venior (FI), Very Addictive, Viagra Boys, Vidar, Vigiland, Viola Beach (UK), Vånna Inget


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festival in Sweden, and so we are very happy to have delegates from

both Colombia and Mumbai present! All the panels were extremely

professional and we are really on our way towards being an important

platform in the future of the music business both in the region and

internationally.

It has truly been a weekend dedicated to new music, new knowledge

and new friendship. I’d love to do a sequel next weekend. But as we

all know ”time is the new luxury” and we all got family and relatives

that also needs us and even more places to visit. So thanks to everyone

for coming, let’s do this again in 2017!”

Of course one tragic event which many are now

well aware of involving UK band, Viola Beach,

who had played at the Dynamo venue on the

Friday night overshadowed this otherwise suc-

cessful and happy event. The organisers and all

attending ‘Where’s the Music” were of course

thoroughly shocked by the dreadful news, and

all thoughts and commiserations went out to

the devastated families and friends. No doubt

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Warner/Chappell UK has sold its office in Kensington,

London to John Lyon’s Charity for £22.6m.

The deal, which delivers a 3.6% yield, also sees the

major publisher lease back the property for another 15

years, with a break option after a decade.

According to Property Week, the rent will cost Warner/

Chappell £790,000 a year, which equates to £49

($71)/sq ft.

The premises, 46 Kensington Court, is a former

electricity generating station, which was originally

constructed in the 1880s and the building went

through a major refurbishment in January 2015 that

has enabled the company to consolidate its London

operations from across six buildings to three.

“Off the current rental base, we consider that the

investment offers excellent prospects for growth

over the medium to longer term,” said Ross Owen,

Cluttons’ head of investment and fund management,

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Warner/Chappell UK is headed up by MD Richard

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SSThe oft-discussed subject of women in

the music business has stepped up

noticeably in the past couple of years,

in Scandinavia conference organisers,

such as those of Sweden’s Where’s

the Music have been encouraged

and are doing their best to

present panels that feature

50% women to men. Also the

balance of male to female acts

has been challenged. At last

week’s Eurosonic conference in

Groningen, a panel called Male

Agents, Female Assistants drew

a large audience to discuss the

dearth of women at high-level

positions in the live sector.

Julia Gudzent from the Melt

festival in Germany chaired the

session, with panelists Participants

included Norwegian agent Anita

Halmøy Wisløff, Polish booker Anna

Kopaniarz, UK agency partner Isla Angus,

and the head of press for Danish festival

Northside, John Fogde (Maybe too few men

on the panel?).

Wisløff made the point that many believe women

get hired because of experience and men get hired

because of potential, the problem being that you can’t

get experience if you can’t get hired!

Wisløff stated that the attitudes of some festivals are improving, saying

that the Øya festival in Oslo increased female acts on its bill from 10 per cent

to 35 per cent in a year. The shows in Groningen it must be said seemed to have

many female and female-fronted acts.

Possible solutions referred to included quotas and accepting invitations to speak at conferences; I agree with this I have

often asked women to join panels and been turned down, although this is I think changing. The main point agreed by

all was that the continued raising of the issue was vital.



Featured Artists Coalition appoint more women to the boardThere is some improvement in some organisations

though as shown by the announcement that both

Imogen Heap and Katie Melua have been added to

the board of directors of the artist rights organisation,

Featured Artists Coalition, They join Sandie Shaw, Ed

O’Brien, Nick Mason, Annie Lennox, Fran Healy and

Kate Nash among others on the artist-only board.

Heap said; “It’s fantastic to be invited in to help shape

the bright future of our music industry with the FAC

gang and hopefully add to their great work! It’s the

first time in a long time I’ve been positive about the

future of our industry and I completely and whole

heartedly believe a revolution is upon us.”

Melua said; “It’s great to be joining the FAC board, the

music industry has long been needing an organisation

like this. In my introduction to the FAC I can see that

there is so much experienced knowledge and care

in this community, which is there to be shared. If a

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The four members of British indie band Viola Beach and their

manager have died in a car crash in Sweden after playing at Swedish

music festival Where is the Music?

Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin and manager

Craig Tarry were killed when their car plunged more than 25m from

a highway bridge into a canal. The incident happened in the early

hours of Saturday near Stockholm.

The band were part of the line-up for Swedish music festival Where

is the Music? on Friday and were due to play a gig in Guildford in

Surrey on Saturday. Folkert Koopmans, CEO of FKP Scorpio, which

arranged the festival in Norrköping, said: “It is horrible, a huge

tragedy. I saw them playing on Friday night and it was actually the

first time they played outside of the UK. They were really excited

about it. My thoughts are with their families and friends.”

The band put out their second single, Boys That Sing, on Jan 22 on

Communion Records, and was in Sweden to perform at the Where’s

the Music? festival in Norrköping on Friday night. It was their first

overseas gig.

The bridge, at a junction between the E4 and the E20 motorways, in

the Sodertalje area, 18 miles from Stockholm, has a middle section

that rises directly upwards without tilting, leaving a gap that the

Nissan Qashqai drove into, Swedish police said. A barrier, 50m before

the opening, has flashing lights and signs warning there is a bridge

opening, the officer handling the case said.

Inspector Martin Bergholm said: “For some reason, the car drove

through the barriers and crashed down into the canal.”

British band die in car crash in Sweden

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The Tennessee Whiskey brand Jack Daniel’s has launched an initiative

supporting some of the UK’s independent small venues. Jack Daniel’s

will team up with venues across the country to host regular events

featuring both up and coming talent and established acts.

It is third time Jack Daniel’s up-weighted its music budgets and it now

represents 30% of the whiskey brand’s total spend on marketing .

Jack Daniel’s senior brand manager, Michael Boaler, says:

“Independent venues such as the Southampton Joiners and the

Brighton Joker are essential to every new band’s development,

playing the small venue circuit is how you learn your trade. From

a fan’s point of view it’s about those real memorable moments,

discovering ‘that band’ playing to a handful of people before going

on to headline Glastonbur y years later.”

“That’s why we think it’s important to support and put a spotlightn on

these places by creating an initiative dedicated to smaller, independent

live music venues as part of our music plan – we really hope that our

Jack Rocks nights help the venues to continue the great work they’re

doing whilst discovering some top notch new bands along the way.”

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Midem has announced the first trio of keynote names confirmed

for the 2016 conference programme.

Neil Warnock, head of music worldwide at United Talent Agency;

Gao Xiaosong, chairman of China’s Alibaba Music Group; and

award-winning music supervisor at Saturday Music, Mary Ramos,

will all be participating in keynote Q&A interviews to give Midem

audiences the benefit of their insight into where the industry is

headed.

From his position as head of music worldwide at UTA, Neil Warnock

will speak on the evolving role of the agent. Warnock was formerly

worldwide president and founder of The Agency Group. His

career spans five decades, during which he has represented some

of history’s most influential musical talent including the Rolling

Stones, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, Simon & Garfunkel, Michael

Jackson and Dolly Parton. UTA recently acquired The Agency

Group to form UTA Music.

The keynote announcement follows news that the

call for entries is open for the second edition of the

Midem Artist Accelerator (MAA) - the programme

to fast-track budding musical talent into the global

spotlight. The Midem Artist Accelerator aims to

identify and develop emerging talent as well as

support managers, labels, agents and publishers

seeking to grow their artists’ profiles on the

international stage.

The 12 upcoming artists selected by the prestigious

2016 Artistic Committee will get to play live at Midem,

and will benefit from a tailored professional programme

onsite, including entry to selected conferences, coaching

sessions with industry mentors and networking opportunities with

key players from the international Midem community.

This year’s five conference tracks – Midem Keynotes, Copyright

Summit, Legal Summit, Label Summer Camp and Innovation

Factory – will feature all the hot topics impacting the industry,

from copyright reforms in both the US and Europe, to monetisation

strategies for labels and right-holders, digital marketing, innovation

and new trends.

Organised by Reed MIDEM, the Midem tradeshow takes place in

Cannes, France from June 3-6, 2016.

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