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McGowan’s

Musings

This was definitely the hottest edition of

couple of us VIP people, me for one, brought

Reeperbahn and other events provide a

the Reeperbahn Festival yet, not only in

back heavy flu like colds, so if these musings

forum and a growing platform for not just the

terms of undeniably fast paced action in

are shorter than usual (who said ‘that’s a

international music business and culture, but

the conference rooms, at the many parties,

relief!’..?) that’s my excuse.

also the wider scope of the digital industry

in the clubs and bars and on the streets of

and the many ever closer related creative

Hamburg, but the weather (here I go again!)

The Festival has reached that stage, which

industries. The live industry, returning to the

was holding on to summer. It was much

I well remember first encountering at

what may be considered the core business of

warmer than you’d expect and as a result a

SXSW when the Austin event was about

VIP, and you, our readers, is also broadening

the same age as the Hamburg event is

its scope, with festivals for instance covering

now, whereby many of the breakfast

an increasing number of entertainment

conversations overheard are just as much

genres, and touring recognised as an ever

about what people didn’t see, as what they

more important vehicle for the spreading of

did. But with Germany’s largest club festival

music culture and more.

presenting more than 600 wide-ranging

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events in over 70 venues, plus an extensive

I realise that I’m sounding a lot more serious

arts programme, and of course the panels,

than usual, it must be the flu! But also there

interviews and presentations which made

are some serious but encouraging items in

up the business platform, you’d have to be

this month’s news, a German initiative to

pretty superhuman to take in everything!

allow promoters to earn from the ongoing

Oh, and then there were the parties – more

exploitation of shows that they were

than ever, competing with other and with the

responsible for, more UK investment in

conference programme – well done those

touring, successful bids for EU funding by live

stout hearted and progressive people who

music projects – things are getting busy!

eschewed the free beer for free thinking, informative discussion and debate! The

Talking of busy, October is a full month for

results of the Scottish referendum came

trade events, kicking off with Vienna Waves

through while we were in Hamburg and I

and its sister event in Bratislava from the 1st to

was relieved to hear that the country in which

the 4th, then Amsterdam Dance Event, Music

my parents were born has elected, albeit by

and Media in Tampere, Finland and MaMA in

a narrow margin to stay with the Union, with

Paris all share 15th to 18th, choices, choices!

the state of things elsewhere in the world we

We’ll be reporting back from Vienna,

can do with as much unity as we can get!

Bratislava and Paris, much as we’d like to fit them all in!

As the music industry, or perhaps better said, as discussed in the Power of Numbers

So, as I head for the hot drinks and the

panel that I was fortunate enough to chair,

medication, Ladies and Gentlemen – The

‘the music economy’ continues to evolve,

News!

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SEPTEMBER 2014

UK Music Industry Increases Contribution to National Economy Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

According to new figures from trade body, UK Music, the UK music

Jo Dipple, UK Music

industry’s economic contribution to the country increased by 9% to £3.8 billion last year, with the large part being revenues from live music and songwriting. Chief executive Jo Dipple hailed the growth, pointing out the rise in music’s contribution - known as Gross Value Added (GVA) - showed “how important an industry we are to the UK economy”.

But continuing problems were highlighted as she urged the Government to do more to protect copyright and educate young

for Her Majesty’s Treasury than a car manufacturer. But they need

people about paying for music and the problems of piracy. There

support to get there.”

was also a call for Google and other web giants to give priority to

According to UK Music’s report, the industry supports 111,000 full-

licensed, online music services in search results and better access to

time jobs and one in eight albums sold worldwide are by British

bank finance for small music businesses was called for.

artists from Adele to Ellie Goulding.

Dipple said: “The young, bearded kids in the pub, making a racket

Dipple said UK Music wanted to help government “develop policies

on a Friday night, might just turn out to generate more revenue

as good as the music we produce”.

Further Momentum Fund Grants Announced Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

The PRS For Music Foundation has announced details of more artists who have been awarded funding from the Arts Council backed Momentum initiative.

The successful applicants are: Amplify Dot (for the release of a new album) Dems (for the marketing and promotion of a debut album) Femme (for the release of a third single) Josephine Oniyama (for a second album) Låpsley (for the release of three EPs, touring and live setup) PINS (for the recording and release of a second album) Public Service Broadcasting (for the recording of a second album) Solomon Grey (for the recording of a debut album and promotion) The announcement also gave the dates of two new deadlines for further Momentum Fund applications, one earlier this month and one on October 28.

Josephine Oniyama

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SEPTEMBER 2014

Reeperbahn Festival – Results for the 2014 Ninth Edition Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

This year’s ninth Reeperbahn Festival took place in unusually hot

25 international showcases with new partners such as Australia,

weather for the time of year, averaging 22 degrees in the shade, and

South Africa and Texas:

reported the following attendance figures:

A wide range of music related art programmes: a total of 600 programme items:

30,000 festival visitors:

70 venues on and around Hamburg’s Reeperbahn

3,000 international delegates, 35% of them international (coming from ca. 40 countries, biggest delegations from UK, Switzerland,

All three (remaining) major labels - Sony, Warner, Universal - had

Denmark, Netherlands, Canada).

their individual presence at Reeperbahn Festival.

450 international media representatives / journalists.

The next 10th anniversary edition will take place from Sept. 23-26, Programme items:

2015. Tickets are already available (early bird).

400 concerts.

170 conference programmes (100 sessions (including a remarkable

Reeperbahn will then spotlight Finland as partner country.

keynote speech by the legendary German artist Herbert Grönemeyer):

(Seems reciprocal as Music in Media in Tampere Oct 16-19, will

45 networking-events and awards:

feature Germany as a partner country – Ed.)

Photo of Detlef Schwarte and Alexander Schulz of Inferno Events - Reeperbahn organisers

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Promoters Collecting Society Approved in Germany Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

Professor Jens Michow of the German

services, e.g. the TV broadcast of a show,

says GWVR CEO Dr. Johannes Ulbricht.

Promoters Association, BDV was able to

which they organized and promoted. They

“However our work is only just beginning,

release the following interesting and no

will now be able to claim a share of ‘the pot’

because now we will have to establish

doubt very welcome news for promoters

in addition to composers, artists and record

rates and schemes of distribution with the

in Germany and beyond, during the ‘Power

companies.

DPMA. According to Ulbricht, GEMA is to

of Numbers’ panel during the Reeperbahn Conference:

be commissioned with the collection of the After 10 years of preparatory work, the

interests.

Society for the Observation of Organisers’ From now on promoters will also be able to

Rights (Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung

All promoters based in the European Union

claim payment as a result of agreed shares

von Veranstalterrechten, GWVR) has also

can become a member of the GWVR.

of so called ‘neighbouring rights’ for any

been approved as a collecting society by

Not only can German promoters claim for

form of commercial exploitation of their

the German Patent and Trade Mark Office

events in Germany via the GWVR but also

(Deutsches Patent und Markenamt, DPMA)

for events abroad. “After a protracted and

in Hamburg. In the future, they will always

difficult approval procedure, with the GWVR

assert the claims of their members when

the conditions have for the first time been

concert recordings, be it sound or picture

created to ensure that promoters are not

recordings, are played on radio, television,

merely dependent on the fleeting success

YouTube or Spotify. The GWVR is a 100%

of their concerts but can also participate

subsidiary of the German Federal Association

in receiving the fruits of their labours in

(Bundesverband

the long term,” says Prof. Jens Michow,

of

Concert

Organisers

der Veranstaltungswirtschaft, bdv), the

managing president of the bdv.

professional body of German promoters, artist managers and concert agencies.

Publisher: Bundesverband der

“This means that for the first time there is a

Veranstaltungswirtschaft e.V.

collecting society in Germany that collects

Lenhartzstr. 15 20249 Hamburg

royalties for promoters for the commercial

Germany Tel. +49 / 40 / 4 60 50 28

exploitation

Professor Jens Michow,BDV

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of

live

recordings

legally

provided in § 81 UrhG (German Copyright

Email: info@bdv-online.com

Act) and distribute these to those entitled,”

Website: www.bdv-online.com

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Live Music Venues United for the Circulation of Emerging Artists Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

Fabien Miclet

Three music projects that have been successful in gaining funding after applying to the European Union’s Creative Europe initiative were presented at Reeperbahn, following panels that discussed the place of popular music within the European Commission’s plans for Creative Industries. Besides Liveurope featured here, Michal Brenner of the Meetfactory in the Czech Republic, and Julia Osada of the European Music Council explained the plans for their long term projects – we’ll look at those again in a future issue. In the meantime the multi venue project fronted by Fabien Miclet at Brussel’s Ancienne Belgique involves people and places quite familiar to VIP News and our readers…

The Liveurope Platform is a European initiative gathering popular

Liveurope label within the European live music sector. The ambition

concert venues established in various countries across the continent.

of the Platform is to attract an ever-growing number of participating

All members of this Platform share one goal : the promotion of

concert halls all across the continent.

European music, and more particularly of emerging acts.

Liveurope will strive to raise awareness about European values The key mission of the Liveurope initiative is to support live music

and cultures among the general public, the media, and live music

venues in their efforts to foster cross-border circulation of emerging

professionals. As such, the aim of this initiative is to contribute,

European music artists, through the development of a European

through live music, to the development of a genuine European

quality label. The ‘Liveurope label’ will identify European concert

cultural sphere.

halls which are active in the promotion of upcoming European talent, in order to create lasting programming effects.

The Platform is coordinated from Brussels (BE) by internationally

Thanks to an incentive financial support mechanism co-funded by

renowned concert venue Ancienne Belgique As of 2014, the other

the European Commission’s ‘Creative Europe’ Programme, these

members of the Platform are:

concert halls will be encouraged to carry out a sustained collective effort with a view to increasing the share of upcoming European music acts in their artistic programmes.

In this perspective, the Liveurope Platform aims to build a wider and more diverse audience for European music, and to fully unleash the potential of our continent’s immense artistic potential. The Platform’s ambition is to establish itself as a beacon of excellence in the field of live music in Europe. This initiative is indeed designed not only to help music artists developing their careers, but also to develop genuine enthusiasm among music fans, and to become a true European success story.

Besides the financial mechanism and the promotion efforts, a variety of events will be organised in the framework of this initiative,

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The Association of Independent Festivals Congress Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

The AIF has announced more details about

Confirmed to speak are Southbank Centre

its Festival Congress, which will take place in

Artistic Director Jude Kelly, Welsh minister

Cardiff on 17 and 18 Oct.

Edwina Hart, and a number of festival reps, including Rob da Bank (Bestival), Martin Elbourne (Glastonbury/The Great Escape)

Rob da Bank

and Ivan Millivojev (Exit Festival).

we’re bringing the cream of the independent festival world together in Cardiff. The stage

Commenting on all that, da Bank, as both

is set for an excellent conference and we’ll be

panellist and AIF co-founder, told reporters:

celebrating a big season that has seen more

“As the hour rapidly approaches, all at AIF

sold-out AIF festivals than ever before”.

are absolutely buzzing about the Congress.

These latest announcements show that

More info here.

GuilFest Goes into Insolvency Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

with some artists not yet paid Sadly the future of GuilFest, the ‘family

Guildford Borough Council in February

not the only one, just before Peter went on

oriented’ three day event first held in 1992

following a campaign to bring the event

stage a Mercedes tore into the back stage

in Stoke Park in the City of Guildford in the

back following its collapse due to poor

area throwing up dust, and a man in a wooly

UK County of Surrey, is in doubt once again

ticket sales in 2012, leading to the collapse

cap leapt out to grab Peter by the shoulder

with the company behind the festival going

of the operating company with debts of

wishing him luck and saying how much he

into insolvency. The local newspaper Get

£300,000. Magic Summer Live made a one-

was looking forward to seeing him play

Surrey has reported that artists, suppliers

off appearance in 2013.

again - it was Eric Clapton, and post gig, I

and others involved in this year’s edition have still to be paid.

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sat down with Arthur, Peter and Eric and my I have a particularly fond memory of Guilfest

son, who, at my urging of course, got the

– having gone there 20 years or so ago,

autographs on a napkin, which disappeared

Festival organiser Tony Scott is a well known

with the man famous for ‘Fire’ and ‘The

soon after, but miraculously reappeared last

and well liked character in the independent

Crazy World of’, Arthur Brown, Ian Grant,

year! I’ve also got a couple of photos to

festival business, he has confirmed that

manager of Big Country, and The Stranglers

prove it all! - Ed.

insolvency practitioners had been called

at one time, and my son who was I think

in, with a number of people connected to

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the festival still without payment. Amongst

of Fleetwood Mac, and B.B. King’s favourite

others The Boomtown Rats, The Enemy and

white blues player was making a return to

Kool & The Gang played over three days of

the stage after many years away beset with

good weather. However weather forecasts

well documented mental problems with The

had been bad and Scott has blamed this

Splinter Group. Having always been a huge

and a lack of organisational time. The event

fan I was very keen to see if he had retained

was only confirmed with permission from

his incredible skills, and as it happened I was

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Primavera Club Returns to Barcelona Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

How long will it be before we no longer have a festival season, just year round events? Just to make sure that we have something to do- or to write about – in the Winter, Primavera Club will present a large number of acts in Barcelona from 31st October to the 2nd November.

The organisers say that these acts will represent

what

Primavera

Sound’s

organisers are betting on for the near future. Over the weekend 44 international

and

local

bands

will

perform in 5 different venues, all in the centre of Barcelona: Apolo, La [2] de Apolo, Teatre Principal, El Teatro Latino and Sidecar.

It is expected that visitors from England, the USA, Australia and Finland will come to the Catalan capital for the first time for Primavera Club 2014. The Primavera Club 2014 full festival ticket costs 25 and gives access to all the concerts programmed during the festival. The day tickets for each of the three days (Friday 31st October, Saturday 1st November and Sunday 2nd November) will be available at 15 and give access to all the concerts programmed on the day for which they are bought (access is subject to the limitations of capacity of each venue).

Go here for information on all the artists and groups that will take part in Primavera Club 2014 and here for the daily programme.

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New ETEP and CEETEP Results Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com

JUNGLE AND ROYAL BLOOD ARE THE MOST BOOKED FESTIVAL ACTS IN 2014 Eurosonic Noorderslag has proudly revealed the fifth results of The European Talent Exchange Programme 2014 (ETEP) and the second

ETEP Results: Top-scoring countries / top scoring act:

Central Eastern European Exchange Program (CEETEP) results of 2014. These results reflect the number of shows of European acts at

Great Britain, 20 artists, Royal Blood, Jungle

European festivals. Both these programmes are important platforms

The Netherlands, 17 artists, Birth of Joy

for promoting new European artists.

Ireland, 8 artists, Hozier Sweden, 8 artists, Alice Bowman

It’s interesting to note a correlation between the ETEP results and the

Germany, 6 artists, Milky Chance

recently announced Mercury Music Prize shortlist. The top scoring

Austria, 6 Artists, 3 acts with 2 festival bookings

acts Jungle and Royal Blood with 15 and 14 festival bookings respectively have both been nominated.

What the artists say: Royal Blood (GB): ‘’Eurosonic Noorderslag was our first European

Following closely behind with 9 festival shows each are Hozier from

show so we’ll always remember it. A very important and well

Ireland and Denmark’s Mo. Germany’s Milky Chance helped put

organised event at the start of the year, highly recommend it for

German acts on the map this year with 8 bookings just ahead of

new artists’’.

Birth of Joy from Holland. George Ezra from the UK, Swiss band Kadebostany and Pional from Spain all follow with 7 festival show

Kadebostany (CH): ‘’Our show at Eurosonic was a success and

bookings. A full list of results can be viewed below.

solidified our reputation as a live band, it helped us reach many professionals of the scene at once. For a band like us who tour a lot, this showcase was like a ‘’shortcut’’ to reach influental people in the

Birth of Joy playing at Eurosonic Noorderslag 2014 Photographer Bart Heemskerk

live world who didn’t know of us yet’’.

MØ (DK): ‘’Eurosonic Noorderslag is a great, and cool festival to play. Especially for up comers! It has helped me two years in a row getting attention from cool media and bookers from badass festivals in Europe. When you’re there you feel the excitement for new music amongst the people participating in the festival no matter if it’s the guests, the scouts or the artists’’.

Hozier playing at Eurosonic Noorderslag 2014 Photographer Sander Banks

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ETEP Results in alphabetic order: Afterpartees

NL

1

I’am Legion

Alice Boman

SE

5

Ja Panik

Ásgeir

IS

GB/NL 4

Rhodes

GB 2

AT

1

Royal Blood

GB

14

2

Jaakko Eino Kalevi

FI

6

Russkaja

AT 2

5

Jenny Wilson

SE

2

Sam Smith

GB

4

DE

6

Jungle

GB 15

Scarlett O’Hanna

BE

1

NL

1

Jungle by Night

NL

Seward

ES 4

Benjamin Clementine

FR

6

Kadebostany

CH 7

Slick Shoota

NO

2

Berndsen

IS

1

Kate Boy

SE

Soul Sister Dance Revolution

NL

1

Birth of Joy

NL

7

Kensington

NL 3

Taymir

NL 3

Blaenavon

GB

3

Kid Karate

IE

Tensnake

DE 1

Bo Saris

NL

1

KiT

NL 1

The Animen

CH

Bondax

GB 2

Klangkarussell

AT 2

The Mispers

GB

3

Brother & Bones

GB

1

Kodaline

IE

6

The Opposites

NL

1

C + C = Maxigross

IT

1

La Femme

FR

1

The Strypes

IE

4

Cairo Liberation Front

NL

2

La Pegatina

ES

3

The Wands

DK

1

Charity Children

DE

1

Larry Gus

GR

5

Thomas Azier

NL

3

Cid Rim

AT

1

Le Galaxie

IE

1

Tourist

GB 4

Circa Waves

GB

6

Linkoban

DK 2

Traumahelikopter

NL 2

Clair

DE 3

Lonely the Brave

GB

3

Truckfighters

SE 3

Coely

BE 2

Luca Sapio

IT

1

Wild Beasts

GB

Daniel James

IE

1

Lulu James

GB

Denai Moore

GB

3

Manu Delago Handmade AT

IT

1

Baby in Vain

DK

Ballet School Baskerville

DJ Pravda

1 3 2

6

6

4

KAMP!

PL 1

2

Monomyth

NL 1

Mariam the Believer

SE

2

Navarone

NL 1

Djaikovski

MK 2

Melanie De Biasio

BE

4

Saint Raymond

GB

1

Drenge

GB 4

Mighty Oaks

DE

6

The Weatherman

PT

1

East India Youth

GB

4

Milky Chance

DE

8

Cheveu

FR 1

Electric Eye

NO

1

Mister and Mississippi

NL

1

INVSN

SE 1

Elliphant

SE 4

MØ

DK 9

Emilie Nicolas

NO

Mozes and the Firstborn

NL

1

Farao

NO 3

Nadine Shah

GB

2

Float Fall

BE

1

Noah Kin

FI

1

George Ezra

GB

7

Nonono

SE 2

Girl Band

IE

4

N’toko

SI

2

Gudrun von Laxenburg

AT

1

Pablo Nouvelle

CH

2

Hermigervill

IS

3

Pional

ES 7

information:

Hozier

IE

9

Repetitor

RS 2

How it works ETEP

Hudson Taylor

IE

5

Reverend Shine Snake Oil Co. DK

DJ Pravda

4

MØ

1

Number of artists: 101 Number of confirmed shows: 313 Number of countries: 21 Go to the following links for more

All ETEP festivals

Sam Smith

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CEETEP ’14: Workshops at EXIT FESTIVAL This summer Exit again hosted the third set of meetings and workshops concerned with the development of the aims and purposes of the EU funded Central and Eastern European Talent Exchange Programme. CEETEP follows on from the great work done in Western Europe by the European Talent Exchange Programme ETEP in the development of artists, education aimed at encouraging best business practice, and the instigation and progression of cooperation between festivals and established professionals.

At CEETEP ’13, Fruzsina Szep of Hungary’s

European music industry lies 30 to 40 year

the intention of linking artist managers,

Sziget Festival identified the main goals of

ahead of that of Eastern Europe – apart from

media and festivals in order to build this

the meetings as the discussion of common

the Festivals, which have seen remarkable

system together. This will take time but

challenges, to learn from each other and

growth in professionalism, not to mention

there is no doubt that a great start has

most importantly to get to know each

audiences!

already been made! CEETEP artists have

other. These goals certainly still applied

had the opportunity to play in front of

to the 2014 programme. Having a good

The continuing aim of CEETEP is the building

Western audiences and professionals at the

network, as in all international enterprises,

of a solid system behind the Eastern

Eurosonic event in Groningen, the home

is essential in the music business. It is still

European musicians to help them further.

of the ETEP Programme, initiated by The

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This cooperation will continue to help more

amongst those attending was indeed wide-

services for those who attended this year

CEE artist perform across borders within

ranging, from experienced and successful

- should such a Programme of events be

Central Eastern Europe, and by playing

professionals through to those to whom

scheduled for delivery in 2015 or beyond.

Eurosonic Noorderslag they participate in

information about international markets

ETEP and have the opportunity to reach the

& industry practice was completely new.

There are definitely opportunities to develop

whole of Europe and beyond.

A clear objective of our delivery was to

specific briefs for future programmes aimed

operate at all levels simultaneously in order

at facilitating targeted trade development

This year’s meetings were again attended,

to be of practical value to all attending.

objectives as well as learning outcomes &

hosted and overseen by ETEP and CEETEP

network development opportunities.

co-founder Ruud Berends, Fruszina Szep of

It appears that this was achieved, as

the Sziget Festival, Vladimir Vodalov of AAA

participation & attendance were good

Production/EXIT Festival and Allan McGowan

throughout the whole of the two days

of VIP News / IQ Magazine. Training and

and during the four intensive sessions

discussion sessions were organised and

we delivered (always an indication of the

presented by Stuart Worthington of training

level of interest in, and practicality of,

organisation Manchester Music and MMF

the information and contacts provided -

Training, with the participation of Jake

especially when there is a full-blown festival

Beaumont Nesbitt of the International Music

going on at the same time!).

I am a fan of (CE)TEP, EXIT & Eurosonic!

Adam Lewis

Managers Forum (IMMF), artist manager Guna Zucika (Latvia) and Adam Lewis of The

The sessions proved to be as interactive as

Planetary Group (US).

we had hoped they would be - questions and issues were raised by those attending to help clarify roles & responsibilities; process &

Stuart Worthington

time lines; value chains & revenue streams; strategic options available & decisions to be

Adam Lewis works throughout the US,

made: i.e. those attending did not allow any

Europe and other territories including

information provided or opinions expressed

China, his Company provides artist

not to come under scrutiny!

development services in all areas of

the music business. His reactions to this

Plus, the feedback we received from

year’s CEETEP sessions were as follows:

participants during the speed meeting sessions on Day 2 was very positive indeed.

I really enjoyed CEETEP this year. I feel like the program is really growing and that

and

the managers/attendee’s are really there

Stuart Worthington is well known in

The

programme structure seemed to have

to learn and build their business. The

the UK and Europe for his training

worked well. As with any “content creator/

quality of questions from the audience was

programmes

all

developer” I always look for opportunities

excellent and I think that that was mostly

aspects of the music business. These

to improve, and based on this first visit

due to the wonderful presentation that

are his comments on his first set of

and the delivery experience, I have several

Stuart produced. Stu really presented a

presentations in Eastern Europe:

thoughts and ideas as to how future (CE)

wonderful overview of the entire industry in

ETEP Business Support Programmes may

the two days. I think that it really gave the

The events we took part in were extremely

be enhanced in order to be of even greater

new managers something to think about

well managed. The venues excellent, all

and immediately practical value to those

in respect to their bands. Judging from

personnel

and

were

tutorials

efficient

and

on

delivery

format,

timetable

friendly,

attending in terms of bespoke content. For

the follow up that I am getting from folks

facilities were great and everything ran as

example (via early identification of individual

this week, they also listened and are really

smoothly as one could hope for. A hugely

questions and areas requiring support,

looking to get their bands moving.

enjoyable and highly professional experience.

plus local/regional issues to be addressed

As regards the participants: as explained

in the context of international “norms”),

These were the impressions of some of the

to us (and as expected with such events),

together with follow-up workshop-style

regional artist representatives that attended

the depth of knowledge and experience

development activity or business support

the sessions:

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> INDEPTH STORY CEETEP Results in alphabetic order: BaLaKo

RO

Beissoul & Einius

Ilija Duni

Justyna Dominik Justyna Dominik – Artgrupa (Poland)

Ilija Duni (Serbia) I’m a manager of two bands from Poland: This was my 2nd CEETEP conference, I

Laki Lan and Sorry Boys. For me the

attended my first one in 2012 as member

workshops were very helpful. I can describe

of my previous band Petrol, last year I

it in 3 points: - I found out what I have to

was not an official participant, but I came

do to get my bands to function better. The

with my good friend Boris Vlastelica from

division which was drawn on the board and

Repetitor during the “Speed meetings”.

discussion of every part of it allowed me to

1

LT

1

Bernays Propeganda

MK

1

Carnival Youth

LV

3

Fismoll

PL 1

Frau Casio

RS

1

Goodbye to Gravity

RO

1

Hornsman Coyote

RS

1

Kiscisilag

HU 1

Oratnitza

BG 2

Óriás

HU

1

Péterfy Bori & Love Band HU

1

Puncke

HR 2

Quimby

HU 1

Sander Mölder

EE

Superhiks

MK 1

1

TI

RS 1

Compared to the 2012 CEETEP conference

sort out some things and now I know what I

I have to say that this year was much more

should be focused on in the cases of Laki Lan

useful for me. I feel that the presenters

and Sorry Boys. I was reassured also in the

Stuart and Jake were really well prepared.

things that I do well (knowing polish market)

The things we heard from them are “first

like promotion of the album, concert, in

hand” experiences, told in direct, straight

which order has to be done to give the best

to the point style, but also told in a way

effect - All this knowledge that you gave us

so that we as participants can relate to it,

has allowed me to prepare a new plan which

learn from it and use them in our music

now i will try to realize, I hope successfully.

Click the links below for more

lives. I feel that the MMF Training document

information about CEETEP:

really completes the 360 degrees of music

My bands do well on the polish market, and

How it works CEETEP

business circle.

now we would like to expand the business

All CEETEP festivals

Number of artists: 17 Number of confirmed shows: 21 Number of countries: 10

to other countries so it’s important for me I have heard a lot of this things in the

that I could meet and listen to people who

past, or had direct experience with music

have experience in this subject.

labels, publishers, organizing tours etc, but attending the session showed me a

My own impressions were that all of us

different perspective on things I already

who attended these CEETEP meetings,

knew in some form, opened up a new

both educators, panellists and delegates

space for me, inspired me to move forward

learned a lot about the present and future

and become better in things I do.

situation for the music business in Eastern

Carnival Youth

Europe. It is obvious that both artists and

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The second aspect of CEETEP I really like is

their managements are ambitious and

meeting different people and networking. I

determined to broaden their horizons and

Vilnius Music Week (LT)

feel that it was on the same level as CEETEP

the information and positive advice made

has also joined the

2012, which was also great in that aspect.

available by the CEETEP programme has and

CEETEP family.

I enjoyed the first dinner, unfortunately

will help more artists from the region grow

could not come to the second day dinner,

their local audiences and break through

because I had a soundcheck at that time,

into neighbouring territories and eventually

my new band Ti was performing on Friday.

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The Departure of Berlin Music Week - A German Hire & Fire Story Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com

The news that the current edition of the

been hearings, experts discussions and

music convention Berlin Music Week was

certainly a well conducted political agenda

to be the last came pretty much, or almost,

to manage the administrative burdens to

out of the blue.

get this board up and running.

Berlin is a hot spot for politics. Berlin Music

Katja

Week was originally inaugurated to replace

administrative

the failed attempt to re-locate Popkomm

appointed in the beginning as managing

in Berlin. When Popkomm was cancelled

director of the board. She was involved

shortly before its 2009 edition, plans were

in the venue Kulturbrauerei, has a degree

Nevertheless these types of bodies needs

developed to launch a successor event

as an actor and previously was part of

spin doctors, such as Musicboard Berlin’s

Already this was shaping up as everything

the creative economy department of the

Björn Böhning. In a press conference

other than a success story..

culture project Ruhr2010, the prestigious

regarding the launch of the successor event

culture capital project of the Ruhrdistrict in

for BMW entitled Pop=Kultur, Böhning

The first edition of the Berlin Music Week

that year. Apparently the perfect candidate

ventured the opinion that from his point of

(BMW) took place in 2010. In fact some

to handle such a board, supposed to have

view the BMW had been too “arbitrary”.

editions might well have been called Berlin

a structure similar to the Medienboard

BMW apparently was among others too

Mitte Week in reference to the Berlin Mitte

Berlin-Brandenburg.

good

de-centralised, an aspect that in terms of

area in which it took place. Popkomm,

idea, but unfortunately perhaps not when

its concerts-satellites such as the Berlin

once an established international brand,

equipped with a much lower budget than

Festival and the showcase-part “First We

previously

that of the film and media sector.

Take Berlin” seems in fact to be correct.

attracted

more

awareness

Lucker

is

familiar

with

public

handlings

and

was

Actually

a

from visitors from abroad than BMW. Nevertheless, the organising team behind BMW tried its best and over the years managed to improve the settings and the concept for this trade event.

However, politics often go alongside some pitfalls. And in Berlin in particular there are plenty of them. But let’s cut the story short. The departure of BMW has been initiated by the former promoter, when the subsidies of 500.000 Euro per year from the Berlin senate controlled Kulturprojekte GmbH were withdrawn and handed over to the Musicboard Berlin.

This organisation receives subsidies of 1 million Euro per year and was launched in January 2013. As usual for the launch of such a public body, the inauguration process

of

Musicboard

Berlin

was

politically properly handled. There have

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Björn Döring, the former project leader of BMW, has been dismissed

VIP NEWS >

SEPTEMBER 2014

The congress program of BMW in recent

meeting place for mind stimulating innovative

name of a music conference that for five

years took place at the Postbahnhof.

encounters such as, “Pop-Queen meets city-

editions received subsidies of 2.5 million

According to the new plans for Pop=Kultur,

sociologists” and “Techno-producers meets

Euro. Also dumped has been the relationship

all parts of this event should take place in the

neurobiologists”. Certainly one of the most

with the organisers of the Berlin Festival and

Berghain, a well-known techno-discotheque.

exciting encounters at this convention was

First We Take Berlin. At least no official news

The Berghain is furthermore known for

perhaps maybe the one with the doormen of

regarding this network of Festival Republic

its strict door policy, almost as strict as the

the Berghain who have very strict standards

as the main stakeholder in Berlin Festival and

prominent fat cat-discotheque in P1 in

governing who is deemed eligible to enter

its business partner Melt Booking has been

Munich. At least it offers seven locations

this location.

announced yet.

able to accommodate all ingredients of

Björn Döring, the former project leader of

Well, let’s at least look forward to these

Pop=Kultur. Böhning also wishes, according

BMW and his team (except one) have been

kind of knowledge-transfers opportunities

to an article in the newspaper “Welt”, a

dismissed and won’t be in charge for this

at

more integral cooperation of the major label

whatever-comes-next-project in Berlin. Until

meets neurobiologists”. In the meantime the

Universal within Pop=Kultur. Besides this

now also no media reports have been spotted

question remains what the web-address of

Pop=Kultur was supposed to become also a

that questioned the sense in dropping the

this event will be...

within the entire location and as such is

Pop=Kultur

like

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SEPTEMBER 2014

FKP Scorpio expands in Scandinavia

One of the most widely discussed news items at this year’s edition of Reeperbahn Festival was the Friday, September 19 announcement expanded

its

that

FKP

Scorpio

Scandinavian

had

business

Manfred Tari mt@vip -booking.com

activities; this certainly caused quite a buzz.

This news includes a couple of components that combine to re-design the concert business landscape in Scandinavia. FKP

Drain Holding ApS and MKS Holding and

Scorpio Sweden AB, a subsidiary of the

FKP Scorpio as a third stakeholder.

German company FKP Scorpio becomes a

afforded by the presence on the live markets in several Nordic countries at the

stakeholder of Fullsteam Agency in Finland,

The owner of MKS Holding is Mats

same time. The partnership with Fullsteam

while Juha Kyyrö, the founder of Fullsteam

Sörensen, the two stakeholders of Down

and the Provinssirock in Finland, as well as

Agency becomes a stake holder of FKP

the Drain are Brian Nielsen and Flemming

the establishment of Tinderbox ApS and

Scorpio Sweden. He has furthermore been

Myllerup. Northside ApS, the company

the same-named festival in Denmark is

appointed as the managing director of

behind the Northside Festival has Down the

the logical continuation of our previous

this branch that will oversee all business

Drain and Folkert Koopmans, the managing

activities in Northern Europe. I am very

activities in Sweden.

director of FKP Scorpio as stake holders.

happy to be able to work together with such

In a joint stake swap all mentioned parties

experienced partners as Juha Kyyrö and

In recent years Kyyrö gathered various

teamed up to provide both festivals with the

Mads Sörensen in the future, and to be able

industry awards for his efforts and is also

same stakeholder structure.

to expand on the successful cooperation

internationally well known for being one of

with Brian Nielsen and Flemming Myllerup

the leading forces in the concert industry in

In addition thereto the capital stock for FKP

Scandinavia. For Fullsteam, the deal is limited

Scorpio Germany has been increased from

towards the company’s live department.

25,500 up to 1 million Euros. In a press

Unsurprisingly the entire announcement

Last

year

Fullsteam

Agency

even further.”

produced

release FKP Scorpio MD Folkert Koopmans

caused wide ranging awareness not only

around 1.100 concerts and gained revenue

is quoted as commenting, “The experience

in Scandinavia. Even festival promoters in

of 8.5 million Euro. Besides the concert arm

we have gained in the Swedish and Danish

Switzerland told VIP News that they are

of Fullsteam, the other parts of the business

event market in recent years has been very

concerned about the festival-triple by FKP

activities of this company include a label, a

positive and has not only revealed the size

Scorpio in Sweden as potential headliners

publishing company, a management and a

of the market potential in these music-loving

in that period will be more difficult to book

merchandising division as well the operation

countries, but also the numerous synergies

due to the market power of FKP Scorpio.

of a rehearsal centre.

As well as this move, FKP Scorpio announced

Brian Nielsen

that it has agreed a partnership with the Provinssirock Festival in Finland. And as if all this is not enough it will launch a festival in Denmark called Tinderbox. All three festivals will take place on the same dates and therewith are only a week of the Roskilde Festival. The promoter of Tinderbox will be newly founded company Tinderbox ApS, with the two Danish companies Down the

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Juha Kyyrö, founder of Fullsteam Agency

VIP NEWS >

SEPTEMBER 2014

Festivals Square Up to Agents in Denmark re New Event

Four of the largest Danish festivals, Roskilde, Smukfest (Skanderborg), Jelling Musikfestival

and

Nibe

Festival

have

teamed up in joint protest against the plans of two major booking agencies to promote a new open air event in Denmark.

As written above the new festival Tinderbox in Odense, is a joint promotion venture put together by booking agencies Beatbox and Skandinavian along with FKP Scorpio,

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with offices in Germany and Sweden.

The Company also promotes the Danish Northside Festival in partnership with Brian Nielsen of Skandinavian.

taken on conflicting roles and interests by also becoming festival promoters.

Denmark in the future. This constellation

The four Danish festivals maintain that

is to be expected amongst our direct

the two Danish booking agencies who

The four Festivals have extended an

competitors in various sizes and corporate

represent a wide range of leading Danish

invitation to the artists to negotiate future

structures in the future. We have no

acts including Tina Dickow, Mew, Nephew,

festival shows without the involvement of

problems with that. We live in a free world

The Only Two, DAD and many more have

their Beatbox and Skandinavian agents.

where everyone can promote festivals,

If this were to happen it would of course

and we see the current development as

result in financial losses for the agents.

an extension of the general development of the festival market in Europe. On the

Danish music magazine Gaffa reported

other hand, it is not appropriate for us

that the four festivals sent out a joint email

that our main competitors also work as

stating: “The Danish festival market is

booking agents and possess knowledge

rapidly evolving, and as promoters in the

of the offers we make and what terms we

live music industry we are challenged by

negotiate around any involvement of artists

new players and new economy from the

at our events. And it is not acceptable that

outside. We now see two major booking

those agents through negotiations, may

agencies, Skandinavian and Beatbox, with

have a decisive influence on the artists we

a strong German capital partner backing

intend to book for our festivals.�

them,

Watch this space!- Ed.

promoting

several

festivals

in

Roskilde Festival

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VIP NEWS >

SEPTEMBER 2014

MaMA Announce Speakers and Conference Program Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com

MaMA, the Paris located music convention

“World Music in popular music venues”

community. In particular due to the market

has

appearances

and if “Festivals are the new El Dorado for

situation in France, where Paris is the main

amongst others by Michael Eavis - director

artists?” or “New audiences, new tools for

gateway for international artists to enter

of Glastonbury, Armel Campagna -Head Of

festivals”. One subject that pretty much also

the French music market, Mama quickly

Festival - Vice President of Commercialisation

matters for festivals outside of France is a

achieved a leading market place in France.

for Live Nation SAS, Christof Huber - Director

panel on “Festivals, approaching regulations

of Open Air St Gallen / General secretary of

that limit sound levels”.

confirmed

speaker

Yourope and Justin Sweeting - Producer of Clockenflap Festival.

One of the topics for the live music sector

risen each year and its entire setting with There are plenty of more opportunities such

some extraordinary good concert locations

as networking and matchmaking sessions

in Montmatre and Pigalle have enabled

and a focus on the music market of China.

Mama to find its place within the landscape

is a panel asking the question regarding the

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The number of international delegates has

of European music industry conventions.

economic models of festivals entitled as “Is

Mama takes place in Paris from October 15-

there Life Beyond subsidies?” . Mama looks

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For further information please check:

also into the subject regarding the topics

of talents and the French music industry

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MUSIC IN SHARES

Music In Shares Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com

CTs Eventim Launch Joint Venture with Stage Entertainment

SFX Entertainment - Moody’s affirms Second Lien Notes:

for Holiday On Ice:

The rating agency Moody’s classifies the second lien notes for SFX

The deal needs still to be authorized by the German cartel office, but

Entertainment as Caa1. C at Moody’s is actually one of the lowest

once ratified the joint venture includes a 50 percent participation

notes the agency applies. However a double AA is already some-

between the CTS Eventim subsidy Medusa and the musical produc-

thing. The agency furthermore considers the outlook for SFX Enter-

tion company Stage Entertainment for the Holiday On Ice shows in

tainment as “stable”. The financial volume of these notes is $220

Germany and France. The deal is supposed to deliver CTS Eventim

million and last until February 1, 2019. But since the IPO of SFX En-

about 300.000 ticket sales. CTS Eventim furthermore became the

tertainment in October 2013 with $13 the share price meanwhile

exclusive ticketing service provider of the XXXI Olympic Games and

melted down to $5.24...

XV Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. CTS Eventim won a tender and is expected to sell around 9 million additional tickets in 2015 and 2016. The share price since August 25 went up from 20.93 to 22.96 Euro.

DEAG - Business As Usual: There is still no news available on the new festival activities of DEAG at the Nürburgring. Anyhow, the share price in the meantime went up from 5.85 to 6.05 Euros.

Live Nation: Since the last issue of VIP News Live Nation has in the meantime issued several press releases about new tours, acquisitions and partnership agreements. One of these is the take over of Eventjoy, a “Do It Yourself” (DIY) online platform to manage concerts. The service also includes, beside ticketing functions, “social marketing analytics, and customer engagement tools”. In particular Eventjoy is considered to be strong in terms of its ability to serve mobile communication devices. In terms of partnership agreements the company announced a deal with Music Management International (MMI) in the Philippines. In recent years the national promoter presented acts such as Maroon 5, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Bruno Mars. The last reported share price in VIP News was $21.72, on September 26 it stood at $23.96.

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