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McGowan’s

Musings

Here we are with the first News of 2015,

after 40 plus years the longest established

who don’t know!), he was wearing a kilt and

so, although it’s a little belated in actual

of the music trade events has decided to

we spoke prior to a great dinner featuring

temporal terms as we’re most of a month

move to June, although staying in Cannes.

haggis, venison and of course whiskey – all

into the new calendar, Happy New Year!

But those wishing to continue the showcase/

courtesy of the Scottish Exhibition Centre – a

conference experience, will not be short of

great venue! Anyway, Stuart confirmed that

As usual the year for we VIP people, and a lot

choice, as they can either head for Ljubljana,

not for the want of trying they just hadn‘t

of others, kicked off in Groningen, Holland

Slovenia for MENT, Feb 4th - 6th, or join up

been able to secure a bill that they thought

at Eurosonic Noorderslag, which was a more

for FKP Scorpio’s new event in Norrkoping,

good enough, and that the decision to call

than full on event! See the report in this issue.

Sweden a week later, Feb 12-14th. You just

it a day until next year was quite a relief..

In previous years after a usually cold and often

can’t fit them all in - I’ll be in Sweden, and

But don’t be too alarmed you Heavy Metal

wet few days in the Netherlands a contingent

will of course report back!

fans, 60,000-capacity one-day Sonisphere

of the business would hope for some better

festivals will be held in Switzerland and Italy,

weather in the South of France by heading

So another year in the wonderful world of

to the South of France for MIDEM, however

live music stretches out in front of us, what

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delights can we expect from 2015, what

Each year there are worries voiced that,

changes, what triumphs and what failures

particularly in the UK the Festival market is

(hopefully not too many!)? Things are already

over saturated, but although there may be

beginning to move on the prospects of this

other casualties, generally the sector returns

year’s Festival season, and cancellations

success stories, so let’s see what happens.

have already been announced, Scotland’s

What else for the year? Otherwise no doubt

Rockness will not take place this year, and

Live Nation will continue to expand, having

two metal events will not happen. Firstly

started off the year with a joint venture with

on January 16, a statement was posted on

Thailand-based entertainment firm BEC-Tero,

the Sonisphere website announcing that the

and the purchase of Principle Management.

popular U.K. heavy metal festival “will not

Will we see more EDM growth; will data

take place in the U.K. in 2015.” as organizers

acquisition still be an increasing must for

had been unable to secure a “line-up that we

promoters; and will more attention be paid

felt was good enough.” The week later the

to the fate of the small to medium venues?

Barcelona Metal Festival announced that it

Watch this space!

will also not take place in 2015 blaming the size of fees bands are demanding and Spain’s

Sad to hear of the death at the age of 70, of

high VAT rate for the cancellation. I spoke

Edgar Froese, founder and leading light of the

briefly to Stuart Galbraith of Sonisphere

German electro art band, Tangerine Dream.

organisers

strangely

Hopefully he retained the positive attitude

enough in the shadow of the famous

Kilimanjaro

Live,

summed up in his quote, “There is no death,

dinosaur skeleton in London’s Natural History

there is just a change of our cosmic address.”

Museum, at a Burn’s Night Dinner (Burns being the national poet of Scotland, for those

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so not all is lost!

Ladies and Gentlemen – The News!

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Rob Hallett Unveils New Venture From VIP-Daily News Almost nine months after exiting his position

similar advances,” Hallett told Music Week

“The desire to make the lives of both

as boss of AEG Live UK Rob Hallett goes

when outlining his company’s promotion

established and aspiring artists much fairer

public with details about his new venture.

arm. “I can buy global tours and I intend to

and more equitable is at the heart of the

maintain as many of the relationships that

company.”

Hallett’s new company, Robomagic, is a

I’m known for as possible.”

360 operation including a live promotion company.

Hallett’s career stretches back four decades Alongside the promotion unit, ‘Robomagic

with big name acts like Duran Duran, Mary

360’ will seek to strike 360 deals with talent,

J Blige, R Kelly, Blackstreet, Backstreet Boys,

“The size of the financial backing I’ve got

encompassing recording, publishing, artist

Britney Spears, Usher, Beyonce, Jay Z, Alicia

enables me to compete with Live Nation

management and brand management, all

Keys, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, The

and AEG Live at their own game and pay

making use of strategic partnerships.

Rolling Stones and Prince.

Rob Hallett

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UK Spotlight at The Great Escape From VIP-Daily News The Great Escape returns this May with the celebration of the

The first announcement about this year’s artist line-up will come

Festival’s tenth anniversary edition, showcasing over 400 new

the first week of February, with details about speakers, case studies

bands across the city of Brighton, with over 3000 music business

and interviewees appearing in the strands to follow soon, as well

professionals attending.

as news on other sessions and events happening within the festival and convention.

Recently TGE announced the four strands that will form the core of this year’s convention:

Delegate passes that get you access to all of this are still available at the early bird rate of £145, for now.

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’Music Licensing – Expla ined At Last!’ ’Music Marketing Is Bro ken – Let’s Fix It’ ‘How To Sell Out Gracef ully – Better Brand Partnerships’ ‘What’s The Point Of A Record Label Anyway?’

TGE also announced that the festival’s featured country will be the UK. Festival Director Kat Morris explains: “In its history, The Great Escape has built a reputation as one of the most significant international festivals on the circuit and we are always incredibly proud of our lead country partnerships”. These collaborations provide new artists a key opportunity to perform at the UK’s biggest industry event, being highlighted to some 18,000 attendees. As we celebrate the festival’s tenth anniversary, we feel it’s the perfect time to focus on the huge amount of brilliant, homegrown talent here in the UK”.

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Ringo:

New Album and Tour for 2015 From VIP-Daily News Ringo Starr has revealed details of a new album and tour for this Spring.

The former Beatles drummer made the announcement about his new release in a YouTube video.

“I’ve finished the record, mixed the record and next year, it will be out on Universal Records. That’s the good news,” he said.

The 74-year-old singer also thanked fans for supporting his extensive 2014 tour with his All Starr Band, and alluded to more touring in February and March as well.

The new LP will be Starr`s follow up to Ringo 2012 that was released nearly three years ago.

About the new album Starr previously said “It`s a mixed bag, as my records always are. We have the reggae track and we have the rock track and that`s how it is. It`s pop, rock, reggae.”

Starr also said he was taking the production reins on his own this time after working with Bruce Sugar on Ringo 2012 and 2010`s Y Not.

Ringo Starr

Ringo was recently named the recipient of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Award for Musical Excellence.

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In terms of the Live Industry in Europe and the UK, Eurosonic and the ILMC are firmly established leading trade events. We review Eurosonic Noorderslag’s 29th edition earlier this month and look forward to ILMC’s 27th edition in March:

Eurosonic 2015 Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

Eurosonic Noorderslag continues to grow,

In fact Noorderslag is the older, or should

venues and The Common Linnets winning

and might I say, mature and innovate, for

I say ‘senior’ element of the overall event.

an

those who don’t already know, Eurosonic

Dutch acts are doing well these days, with

(EBBA), EBBA Public Choice Award and the

is the international part of the event and

acts like Birth of Joy becoming festival

Dutch Pop Award.

Noorderslag concentrates on Dutch talent.

favourites, Kensington selling out national

European

Border

Breakers

Award

Selling out earlier than previously, this

Eurosonic Conference, photo by Mike-Breeuwer

year’s 29th edition upped the number of venues to 50 in which 345 European acts performed to an audience of 41,200 gig goers, from the 14th to the 17th of January in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands.

The 2015 focus country Iceland showcased 19 new acts.

Eurosonic is also the home of The European Talent Exchange Programme (ETEP), and we’re told by the organisers that so far, 186 acts have been selected to play at the European festivals in the programme The

conference

programme,

which

again included the European Production Innovation attracted

Conference 3,900

&

industry

Fair

(EPIC),

professionals

from all over the world. Highlights included keynotes from Duncan Stutterheim (SFX, NL), Alex Macleod (ex- tour manager of acts like Nirvana and The Smashing Pumpkins), Lennart van der Meulen (VPRO, NL) and Nic Jones (Vevo, UK). Very well attended panels covered a whole raft of current topics.

I was priviledged to be the interviewer for the keynote with veteran German promoter Karsten Jahnke (Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion, DE). At 77 years of age Karsten is still going strong and speaks a lot of sense – experience and wisdom are a strong combination! Inspired by his love of

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jazz he presented his first show as a part-

corporate concert companies was driving up

who’s showcases were sold out, recalling

time promoter in 1959, becoming a full

artist fees to a point where independents

that he got involved with her when she was

time professional in 1972, his company now

were being forced out of the market.

16 and being managed by her Mother!

such as Herman Van Veen, and warned

The Agents panel looked at the ever

The next edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag

that fierce competition amongst the bigger

increasing importance of the agent’s role in

takes place from 13 to 16 January, 2016.

employs 35 people. He spoke highly of artists

a business where artists are more and more dependent on live income. Alex Bruford of ATC (UK), Marty Diamond of Paradigm Agency in the US, Clotaire Buch, of Junzi Arts in France and Peter Elliott of Primary Talent (UK), gave insights into the much wider aspects of their jobs, and highlighted the different ways in which they now interact with their acts. Elliott commented that Agents are now often the first in with new artists, helping them to develop, and that there was a lack of ‘really smart’ new young managers in the business. He commented that he often got as excited meeting a new manager with a good plan

Karsten Jahnke

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Greg Parmley MD ILMC

- An Outlook For ILMC 2015 And Beyond Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com

The 27th Edition of ILMC will again take

Parmley: The main driver behind the new

death and rebirth is a natural part of its

place at London’s Royal Garden Hotel, and

workshop programme is to present in depth

existence. There are casualties every year,

will include the IPM Production Meeting,

sessions that delegates come away from

as there are always new entries, often run

from March 5-8.

having learnt something new. We’re keen

by those with fresh eyes or fresh ideas.

to draw from external experts on specific

Launching a festival isn’t getting any easier,

VIP News: What will be main topics for

topics, and the YouTube and Facebook

but there will always be room for the right

the agenda of the International Live

sessions are good examples here.

new event...

Music Conference (ILMC 27) 2015.

The You Tube session will have two strands

VIP News: At the recent Eurosonic

Greg Parmley: One of the big focuses this

- event and festival streaming, which is a

mainly independent festival promoters

year will be the effect of corporatisation on

fascinating growth area right now, and

ventured

the live music market. It’s Live Nation’s 10th

also what role the world’s largest music

the market power and dominance of

anniversary this year (since it was spun out

website can play in routing and selling

big corporate concerts networks. In

of Clear Channel Entertainment), so it feels

tours and shows. The Facebook workshop

reference to the previous question,

like a good moment to review the effects

will be looking at how delegates can best

do we will see a shift in terms of the

that the multinational are having on the

use the site for music discovery, promotion,

balance between major and smaller

business. We’re also going to focus on the

marketing and ticketing.

companies?

which different industry sectors are starting

VIP News: The upcoming festival season

Parmley: As artist and production fees

to work together, to work holistically and

in Europe seems to have reached a new

continue to escalate, it’s clear that it costs

for a greater good... the artist.

level. Are we already at the stage of a

a lot more to be at the table these days.

saturated festival market or is there still

That said, there are great examples of

room for new festivals?

indies coming through - perhaps these days

their

concerns

regarding

‘joined up’ industry - looking at new ways in

VIP News: ILMC announced workshop sessions with experts from You Tube

it’s more a question of smaller companies

and Facebook. What can visitors expect

Parmley: The festival industry is a hugely

needing to be more agile, more innovative,

from these workshops?

entrepreneurial

and to carve out a niche.

and

creative

organism;

VIP News: You were a moderator at

Eurosonic

2015.

What

kind

of

remarkable new insights did you gain from this event?

Parmley: I was really interested by Duncan Stutterheim’s (SFX) keynote, where he spoke about DJs killing the EDM scene with unrealistic fees. It’s the same criticism that we’ve heard rock ‘n’ roll promoters levy at artists for years. To many in the rock and pop world, EDM seems like the goose that keeps laying golden eggs - it was intriguing to hear that, regardless of the musical

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genre, the talent is always going to demand more of the omelette!

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Jack Daniel’s Launches Venue Initiative From VIP-Daily News

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 Glastonbury years later.

“That’s why we think it’s important to support and put a spotlight 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.

Michael Boaler

King-Tuts Glasgow

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JANUARY 2015

Arndt Scheffler

- Self-Ticketing - Trends And Settings Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com

Arndt Scheffler worked as vice president

the Business model of companies such

benefit from our wide-ranging knowledge

of sales at CTS Eventim till June 2012

as Ticketscript, Paylogic or Amiando?

regarding the needs and requirements of the ticketing market, which is also reflected

when he left the company and in the same year launched the company White Label

Arndt Scheffler: Our scope is actually much

eCommerce, a ticketing service provider

wider. Besides the ‘Do It Yourself’-aspect

offering

for

we also offer a full-service approach, with

Our clients support us by giving valuable

promoters and artists. Today White Label

accompanying services such as merchandise

feedback

eCommerce serves 76 clients, among others

products for instance. For merchandise

development of our software and services

the Wacken Open Air, the concert promoter

in particular we can even offer storage

and we are able to adapt very fast, thanks

Bomber der Herzen and lately DEAG with

solutions on request. The opportunity

to the use of state-of-the-art technology.

their own ticketing portal Myticket.de.

of offering a variety of products in our

With these obvious advantages over our

clients’ shopping carts is a big advantage

competitors we are able to gain many

VIP News spoke with Scheffler about what

and provides the option to gain additional

customers from various sectors.

it needs to serve promoters that sell a

income.

a

DIY

ticketing-platform

regarding

the

ongoing

VIP News: What are the technical

1000 tickets per minute and what is on the ticketing-trend-agenda in 2015....

in the diverse functions of our software.

Furthermore we offer premium colour

and human resources of White Label

tickets with a customizable print on the

e-Commerce

VIP News: What is the difference

backside,

business partners such as the Wacken

between White Label E-commerce and

income source for our clients. Basically we

another

potential

additional

available

to

service

Open Air (WOA)?

Scheffler: This depends heavily on the degree of cooperation. ICS, the promoter behind WOA, largely operate the ticketing for its festival themselves, we take care of the performance of the technical platform.

High loads occur particularly in the launch phase of ticket sales, which requires a very solid IT infrastructure.

We were lucky to attract the WOA festival, as one of the best-selling top events worldwide, as our first customer. This allowed us to design our software and hardware infrastructure appropriately from the very beginning and create a system that is able to serve clients selling thousand tickets per minute. Most systems are initially

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designed to service significantly smaller events and gradually grow as the number of

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JANUARY 2015

customers increase. But this type of growth

neither the first nor the only provider of

certainly unstoppable and promoters should

causes a constant renovation process and

white label solutions; more important is the

no longer be tools to be used by third

brings a lot of problems. Our software

business model behind it and the respective

parties, when they are actually able to take

framework has already proven many years

benefits for the participants of the business.

care of their own belongings.

ago in other e-commerce environments

We help our clients to retain their identity

that it performs well under high load.

and help them to gain more out of the

VIP News: At ILMC ’14, Jan Willem

Additionally, the experience of our IT staff

value chain for which they are responsible

Van der Meer, Managing Director of

in terms of building portals and redundant

anyway. We see ourselves as partners and

Paylogic, raised the topic of, “Social

infrastructure with more than 10 million

service providers who prefer to stand in the

Ticketing”. How does White Label

views per day is an important groundwork

background.

eCommerce handle this subject and how have promoters already adapted

for the design of our software. The modern structure of our system is certainly one of

VIP News: What are the trends in

to associated aspects such as altered

the reasons why we, as a relatively young

ticketing

online marketing, or data analysis?

company, in terms of the performance, are

White Label eCommerce in terms of

able to do even better than many of the

ticket buyers and also for promoters

Scheffler: While the term might be

established players.

in 2015. Also, is the in-house ticketing

confusing, “Social Ticketing” is an integral

only supplementary to the distribution

part of our service and produces above

VIP News: White Label eCommerce

channels of CTS Eventim or TicketMaster

average growth. Our clients sell a significant

recently launched a cooperation with

or already a fully-fledged alternative?

portion of their tickets using our software on

from

the

perspective

of

DEAG for their new ticketing portal

social networks, whether Facebook, Twitter

Myticket.de. How did this deal come

Scheffler: The proportion of online ticket

or the artist’s own online environments.

about?

sales will continue to rise, the trend

Thanks to the analysis tools of our software,

towards

unstoppable

this can be accurately measured and each

Scheffler: Well, DEAG has dealt extensively

and it will influence all aspects of trade.

new impulse on these platforms causes

with the issue of ticketing and got in contact

This creates a great opportunity for all

additional sales.

with us. They performed a professional

promoters of events, to at least do a part

evaluation process, in which we were able

of their business, especially B2C related, by

What is striking here, is the high percentage

to convince.

themselves. Nevertheless, the multi-channel

of mobile users who access with smart

approach by established ticket providers

phones or tablets. According to a research

VIP News: Also the ticketing giant CTS

will stay relevant for many more years. But

report published by the Allensbach Institute

Eventim intend to launch a white label

it is crucial to know about the ticket buyers

at the end of November 2014, already

shop solution. How can and, how will,

and their buying behaviour, where the

44 percent of the German internet using

a much smaller company like White

ticket price caps are, and which personal

population, is using a smart phone or

Label eCommerce respond to such a

preferences the consumers have.

internet-enabled mobile phones. Compared

e-commerce

is

challenge?

to the previous year, this number has In my view, a promoter should devise his

increased by over 24 percent. In summary,

Scheffler: The term white label is not

ticket distribution policy according to the

this offers new great opportunities for

clearly defined, there are many ways

target group for an event, as there are no

promoters and artists to develop their

of interpretation. As a matter of fact,

black or white solutions any more. I can only

customer base and benefit from much

Ticketmaster Germany promoted their white

advise to try new things and encourage to

better fan relationships. Therefore we invest

label solution many months ago. However,

take advantage of the latest technology

a lot of time and work in the creation of

it is not comparable to our offer. We are

available on the market. The digitisations is

features to support these trends.

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JANUARY 2015

Music In Shares Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com CTS Eventim - Some Legal Issues...

The share price on January 26 was 25.62 Euro.

the management of the company. Besides Consiglio the move comes along with various

DEAG - One Legal Issue

new appointments and departures:

tion agency of Northrhine-Westphalia filed a

Another legal issues for CTS Eventim reltes to

Kevin Arrix joins SFX as EVP and Chief Revenue

written warning against CTS Eventim regard-

the legal case filed by DEAG against the Berlin

Officer. He holds the same position at Viggle

ing ticket sales and the accompanying service

Senate regarding the lack of a call of tenders

and will continue to do so. Tim Crowhurst will

fees for the upcoming AC/DC tour. While the

for new contract for the management of the

move from SFX’s President to SFX’s President

in house press release announced face value

open air location Waldbühne in the German

and Head of Strategic Development. Ritty van

by the promoter United Promoters for tickets

capitol. The superior court of Berlin decided

Straalen will move from SFX’s COO to SFX’s

for the nine shows of the Australian Senior-

on January 22 that the Berlin Senate could

President and CEO of Live Entertainment. Joe

Rockers in Germany to be 80 Euro per ticket,

prolong its deal with CTS Evemtim without

Rascoff will step down from his position as

the ticket price finally amounted to more

putting out a new call for tenders. In 2009

SFX’s Chairman of Live Entertainment. He will

than 100 Euro.

CTS Eventim won a tender for the manage-

continue to serve as Vice Chairman of SFX’s

ment of this location, previously managed by

Board of Directors. Chris Stephenson will

DEAG for more than two decades.

leave his position as SFX’s Chief Marketing

CTS Eventim recently experienced a legal hiatus. On December 18, the consumer protec-

CTS Eventim offered the tickets with only two payment options; either by direct debit

Officer to form an entertainment marketing

or credit card, and charged another payment

The share price for DEAG raise since the begin-

service fee on top of this. This is according to

ning of January rose from 6.80 to 7.80 Euro.

a statement by the consumer watch dogs illegal, as at least one payment option is sup-

agency that will be affiliated with SFX. Well, the share price of SFX Entertainment

Live Nation - In Love With Uber & Thailand

posed to be free of charges. The organisation

meanwhile reaches with $3.40 a new all time low....

therefore filed a written warning against the

Live Nation has implemented in its app in

company. But as this is not enough, CTS Even-

the US a function to order the driving service

tim only offered a so called premium mailing

Uber and create pick-up/drop-off zones at

service, charging for two tickets 19.90, and

Live Nation Amphitheatres. The company fur-

for up to four tickets 29.90 Euro, per mail out.

thermore announced a joint venture with the biggest promoter in Thailand BEC-Tero Enter-

What then caused an additional out cry in so-

tainment Public Co. Ltd to promote events

cial media networks, was the news that the

with international artists in that country. Live

so called “premium service” arrived at ticket

Nation therewith operates now in 10 Asian

buyers in a normal envelope with a normal

countries with local branches. The current

post stamp with a face value of 60 Cent on.

share price now is at $25.55.

On December 23 CTS Eventim issued a state-

SFX Entertainment Appoints Greg Con-

ment, apologized for the inconvenience and

siglio As President & Chief Operating

explaining that the lack for a cost neutral pay-

Officer

ment option was due to a technical mistake and that ticket buyers would receive refunds.

It sounds like a big revamp. SFX Entertain-

The question regarding the unlikely expense

ment mingles with Viggle, an entertainment

of a ticketing fee of more than 25 percent

marketing and rewards platform with more

per ticket and the one regarding “premium”

than 7 million users and undertook significant

postal service... remain unsolved until now.

restructuring measures within the board and

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Fast Entertainment Fast Entertainment owned by Michael Fast is representing Danish original artists such as Pretty Maids, Mike Tramp and more.

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Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Territory: Scandinavia, Eastern EU, UK, Ireland Period: June - July Agency: Sasa Music Agent: David Flower Phone: +44 20 7359 9232 E-mail: rab@sasa.demon.co.uk Homepage: www.sasamusic.com

Tinariwen Territory: Scandinavia, Netherlands, Eastern EU, UK, Ireland Period: May - September 2015 Agency: Sasa Music Agent: George Prince Phone: +44 20 7359 9232 E-mail: george@sasa.demon.co.uk Homepage: www.sasamusic.com

mark: Queen of Denmark, Glam Gang, Kings of Rock and more.

The company was established in 2002, and is also strong in top names doing lectures, stand-up and all kinds of entertainment.

Fast Entertainment owns 50% of EVENT COMPAGNIET.

THE ORCHESTRA starring ELO former members Territory: Worldwide Period: 2015 Agency: World Entertainment Associates of America Agent: John Regna - Artist Agent/Manager Phone: +1 407 993 4000 E-mail: jpr@johnregna.com Homepage: www.THEORCHESTRAonline.com

SYSTEM 7 FEATURING STEVE HILLAGE Territory: World incl USA Period: May 2015 onwards Agency: Walue Added Talent Agent: Dan Silver Phone: +44 20 7704 9720 E-mail: dan@vathq.co.uk Homepage: dan@vathq.co.uk

About Our Company VIP-Booking’s core product is the Internet’s oldest and largest­ database­for the European Live Entertainment Industry www.vip-booking.com­developed as a tool for industry professionals­.

Since it’s launch in the year 2000, we have consistently offered our subscribers the very best in database services and now boast subscribers­in over 30 countries.

Today VIP-Booking offers a range of tools for the industry­– including VIP-News, VIP-Booking, VIP-Book and VIP-Contract.

Bo Kaspers Orkester Territory: World wide Period: By request Agency: Lifeline Entertainment Agent: Michael Henriksson E-mail: michael.henriksson@lifeline.se Homepage: wwwlifeline.se

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