Artist manager Amy Thomson has "reluctantly" responded to the news last week that she is parting company with Axwell & Ingrosso, ending a long-term business partnership with the duo that began, of course, with the EDM phenomenon that was Swedish House Mafia. In a lengthy note to Billboard, Thomson said she felt the need to respond because of all the online speculation that has followed last week's announcement.
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from CMU Online
As Xfm relaunches as Radio X this morning, Xfm founder Sammy Jacob announces his latest music venture, which officially kicks off tomorrow. He has teamed up with Camden Market to launch Camden Xperience – of CDNX – a new music service that combines radio, online music news and live events.
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from CMU Online
The boss of SoundCloud has been chit chatting to Billboard as speculation continues about the future of his company. On one side it has deals in place with Warner and the indies to try to monetise its large community of music fans, but at the same time faces ongoing criticism from at least one major record company and a potentially crippling legal action from UK collecting society PRS For Music.
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from CMU Online
IT IS not known how many people had bought tickets for the troubled High Definition (HD) Festival before it collapsed three weeks prior to its intended dates, but many expressed their anger and frustration on Facebook.
The 5-6 September event was due to take place at The Hop Farm in Paddock Wood, Kent, itself a site that has seen previous festivals get into financial difficulty, with Vince Power's last Hop Farm Music Festival (cap. 10,000) cancelled at short notice in May 2013.
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Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from Live UK
IRELAND-BASED live music impresario Denis Desmond has broken his silence on the take-over of MAMA & Company by LN-Gaeity exclusively to LIVE UK.
LN-Gaeity is the joint venture formed by his Gaiety Investments company and Live Nation Entertainment, and owns Reading (cap. 90,000), Leeds (80,000) and Latitude (35,000) festivals promoter Festival Republic.
He suggests a deal is close for Academy Music Group (AMG), which is 51 per cent owned by LN-Gaeity, to adopt the newly acquired...
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from Live UK
IMG ARTS and Entertainment has acquired PWR Events, the company which ousted IMG from running Hampton Court Palace Festival (cap. 3,000) in October 2010.
The deal will see IMG adopt PWR's portfolio of events which include Winter Wonderland in London's Hyde Park, Taste of London at Regents Park and the Natural History Museum Ice Rink. PWR's management team will continue to run the events under the IMG operation.
VENUE OPERATOR VMS Live has added The Duchess (cap. 400) in York, Birmingham's Alfie Bird & The Oobleck (350) and Aberystwyth Student Union (400) to its portfolio of managed live music venues.
They join Manchester Academy (2,525, 900, 55, 450), the University of East Anglia Student Union's Nick Rayns LCR (1,550) and The Waterfront (700) in Norwich, Warwick's The Copper Rooms (900) and William Aston Hall (1,200) and Catrin Finch (250) – both in Wrexham. VMS also has a deal to...
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from Live UK
SHOPPING SITE Amazon has expanded its ticketing operation into the festival and concert markets and is not charging a booking fee.
It sells through its UK-based Amazon Local service, which lists deals in 34 regions across the country.
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from Live UK
MULTI-NATIONAL booking operation The Agency Group (TAG), founded by Neil Warnock more than 30 years ago, has been bought by Hollywood-based United Talent Agency (UTA).
TAG worldwide CEO Warnock has been appointed UTA's head of worldwide music for a combined roster than includes UTA's Kanye West and Mariah Carey, and TAG's Muse, David Gilmour, The Black Keys and Paramour.
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from Live UK
It's a place where Skrillex DJs in an igloo, The Prodigy once (allegedly) played so loud the cows didn't produce milk for three weeks, and PA equipment is ferried 2,000 metres up a mountain via cable car. Welcome to Broadwick Live's Snowbombing - the greatest show on snow, which TPi discovers, is far from the usual run-of-the-mill festival.
Nestled in the foothills of the Austrian Alps, less than an hour's drive from Innsbruck, is the town of Mayrhofen. The last week of the ski season...
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from TPi Magazine