German authors' society GEMA has filed a claim of fraud with the public prosecution department in Berlin after it discovered two of its staff members paying out royalties to fake concerts.
The two staff members allegedly collaborated with ten authors and publishers...
The remaining members of the European Live Music Forum
(ELMF) have dissolved the association, saying that industry divides are still
too wide for it to speak with one voice. Membership had dwindled from 16
industry associations when it launched in 2005 to just three...
Hilltop Live, the newly renamed Oppikoppi organisation,
has launched a ticketing service from its base in South Africa, which it hopes
to expand across the continent. According to MD Carel Hoffman, Ticketbreak.co.az
has already sold close to 30,000 tickets in the first four weeks of operation...
The first ever report into the environmental impacts of
the touring industry was revealed at the Royal Albert Hall in London last
month, when Julie’s Bicycle launched its latest publication Moving Arts: Managing theCarbon Impacts of Touring...
Two recent surveys have revealed that the UK festival
market remains remarkably buoyant, having contributed £160million to the
British economy across 25 participating festivals.
Reading Festival, one of the most esablished UK summer...
As Bananarama once sang, “it’s a cruel… cruel summer.” We
doubt the girl group was warbling about the touring season in the United States
but it may as well have been as the market has been seeing a severe downturn in
fortunes...
Sziget, one of Europe’s largest music festivals is expecting
5,000 more international visitors to flock to the tiny island on the Danube
River in Budapest for this year’s event.
In recent years, the weeklong festival has seen a dramatic increase...
Following the £29million (€34.7m) restoration of its sister
venue the LG Arena, The National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Birmingham, UK, has taken
its first steps towards refurbishment.
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