Mergers, consolidation, new formats and widening distribution channels…anyone would think the European ticketing industry was still in a state of flux, writes Greg Parmley.

When the US Department of Justice cleared the merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster at the start of the year, there were few who greeted...

When it comes to wooing customers, ticket companies are realising that a little understanding goes a long way.

Life must have been easy before the internet. In the days when physical tickets were printed, customers queued up or called a phone number to buy them, then they went to the show...

Having emerged from an unprecedented five-year boom, Ireland is coming to terms with tighter sales and thinner margins. But as promoters argue, sometimes less is more anyway. Adam Woods reports.

If any European nation thinks it has got economic difficulties...

The holy grail of heavy rock, Donington has always attracted denim and leather-clad pilgrims in their thousands. Adam Woods reports on 30 years of ear-busting heritage.

Monsters of Rock is long gone – shut down in 1996 as the touring circuit boomed, and finally replaced at Castle Donington by Download in 2003...

Recent figures* showed that comedy was up 45% and family shows up 32% in UK arenas last year, so what is it about these alternative hits that are proving so successful? Adam Woods reports.

Almost two years since it began, Coldplay’s Viva la Vida tour wrapped up in South America last month. But the final leg proved to be one of the tour’s biggest challenges…

With 160 dates under their belts, Coldplay had nothing left to prove on the Viva La Vida tour. After nearly 18 months, the tour had officially...

Despite the recession, 2009 proved a solid year for arenas across the continent, and given the economic state of play, some surprising figures emerged...

Last year’s arena report recorded an 8% drop in attendance at music shows in 2008. It was the first time in a decade that numbers had fallen significantly...

It’s not every day that you’re named ‘International Agent of the Decade’, but it’s not every day that an agent like John Giddings carves a path through the business. Greg Parmley goes Solo...

When Billboard magazine named the Rolling Stones, U2 and Madonna as the three highest grossing touring artists of the last decade...

Our hand-picked group of industry leaders gaze into their crystal balls to predict just how the concert business will fare in this new decade...

The idea was simple: To take a cross section of senior figures within the music industry – one for each of a variety of industry sectors – and...

While one of its number is still reeling from the economic storm, the majority of the Nordic live music markets are weathering the chills as though they’re used to it. Adam Woods reports...

The Nordic region is one where you expect them to do things right. In The Economist’s global Quality of Life Index, last calculated five years ago, only...