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McGowan’s Musings
Here we are with the first News of 2015,
so, although it’s a little belated in actual
temporal terms as we’re most of a month
into the new calendar, Happy New Year!
As usual the year for we VIP people, and a lot
of others, kicked off in Groningen, Holland
at Eurosonic Noorderslag, which was a more
than full on event! See the report in this issue.
In previous years after a usually cold and often
wet few days in the Netherlands a contingent
of the business would hope for some better
weather in the South of France by heading
to the South of France for MIDEM, however
after 40 plus years the longest established
of the music trade events has decided to
move to June, although staying in Cannes.
But those wishing to continue the showcase/
conference experience, will not be short of
choice, as they can either head for Ljubljana,
Slovenia for MENT, Feb 4th - 6th, or join up
for FKP Scorpio’s new event in Norrkoping,
Sweden a week later, Feb 12-14th. You just
can’t fit them all in - I’ll be in Sweden, and
will of course report back!
So another year in the wonderful world of
live music stretches out in front of us, what
delights can we expect from 2015, what
changes, what triumphs and what failures
(hopefully not too many!)? Things are already
beginning to move on the prospects of this
year’s Festival season, and cancellations
have already been announced, Scotland’s
Rockness will not take place this year, and
two metal events will not happen. Firstly
on January 16, a statement was posted on
the Sonisphere website announcing that the
popular U.K. heavy metal festival “will not
take place in the U.K. in 2015.” as organizers
had been unable to secure a “line-up that we
felt was good enough.” The week later the
Barcelona Metal Festival announced that it
will also not take place in 2015 blaming the
size of fees bands are demanding and Spain’s
high VAT rate for the cancellation. I spoke
briefly to Stuart Galbraith of Sonisphere
organisers Kilimanjaro Live, strangely
enough in the shadow of the famous
dinosaur skeleton in London’s Natural History
Museum, at a Burn’s Night Dinner (Burns
being the national poet of Scotland, for those
who don’t know!), he was wearing a kilt and
we spoke prior to a great dinner featuring
haggis, venison and of course whiskey – all
courtesy of the Scottish Exhibition Centre – a
great venue! Anyway, Stuart confirmed that
not for the want of trying they just hadn‘t
been able to secure a bill that they thought
good enough, and that the decision to call
it a day until next year was quite a relief..
But don’t be too alarmed you Heavy Metal
fans, 60,000-capacity one-day Sonisphere
festivals will be held in Switzerland and Italy,
so not all is lost!
Each year there are worries voiced that,
particularly in the UK the Festival market is
over saturated, but although there may be
other casualties, generally the sector returns
success stories, so let’s see what happens.
What else for the year? Otherwise no doubt
Live Nation will continue to expand, having
started off the year with a joint venture with
Thailand-based entertainment firm BEC-Tero,
and the purchase of Principle Management.
Will we see more EDM growth; will data
acquisition still be an increasing must for
promoters; and will more attention be paid
to the fate of the small to medium venues?
Watch this space!
Sad to hear of the death at the age of 70, of
Edgar Froese, founder and leading light of the
German electro art band, Tangerine Dream.
Hopefully he retained the positive attitude
summed up in his quote, “There is no death,
there is just a change of our cosmic address.”
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VIPNEWS > JANUARY 2015
Almost nine months after exiting his position
as boss of AEG Live UK Rob Hallett goes
public with details about his new venture.
Hallett’s new company, Robomagic, is a
360 operation including a live promotion
company.
“The size of the financial backing I’ve got
enables me to compete with Live Nation
and AEG Live at their own game and pay
similar advances,” Hallett told Music Week
when outlining his company’s promotion
arm. “I can buy global tours and I intend to
maintain as many of the relationships that
I’m known for as possible.”
Alongside the promotion unit, ‘Robomagic
360’ will seek to strike 360 deals with talent,
encompassing recording, publishing, artist
management and brand management, all
making use of strategic partnerships.
“The desire to make the lives of both
established and aspiring artists much fairer
and more equitable is at the heart of the
company.”
Hallett’s career stretches back four decades
with big name acts like Duran Duran, Mary
J Blige, R Kelly, Blackstreet, Backstreet Boys,
Britney Spears, Usher, Beyonce, Jay Z, Alicia
Keys, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, The
Rolling Stones and Prince.
Rob HallettUnveils New VentureFrom VIP-Daily News
Rob Hallett
VIPNEWS > JANUARY 2015
The Great Escape returns this May with the celebration of the
Festival’s tenth anniversary edition, showcasing over 400 new
bands across the city of Brighton, with over 3000 music business
professionals attending.
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”.
The first announcement about this year’s artist line-up will come
the first week of February, with details about speakers, case studies
and interviewees appearing in the strands to follow soon, as well
as news on other sessions and events happening within the festival
and convention.
Delegate passes that get you access to all of this are still available at
the early bird rate of £145, for now.
Click here to buy your pass.
UK Spotlightat The Great EscapeFrom VIP-Daily News
Kat Morris,The Great Escape
Recently TGE announced the four
strands that will form the core of this year’s
convention:’Music Licensing – Explained At Last!’ ’Music Marketing Is Broken – Let’s Fix It’ ‘How To Sell Out Gracefully – Better Brand
Partnerships’ ‘What’s The Point Of A Record Label
Anyway?’
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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 was recently named the recipient of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame’s Award for Musical Excellence.
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VIPNEWS > INDEPTH STORY > JANUARY 2015
Eurosonic 2015Allan McGowan [email protected]
Eurosonic Noorderslag continues to grow,
and might I say, mature and innovate, for
those who don’t already know, Eurosonic
is the international part of the event and
Noorderslag concentrates on Dutch talent.
In fact Noorderslag is the older, or should
I say ‘senior’ element of the overall event.
Dutch acts are doing well these days, with
acts like Birth of Joy becoming festival
favourites, Kensington selling out national
venues and The Common Linnets winning
an European Border Breakers Award
(EBBA), EBBA Public Choice Award and the
Dutch Pop Award.
Selling out earlier than previously, this
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 Conference & Fair (EPIC),
attracted 3,900 industry 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
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 Conference,photo by Mike-Breeuwer
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jazz he presented his first show as a part-
time promoter in 1959, becoming a full
time professional in 1972, his company now
employs 35 people. He spoke highly of artists
such as Herman Van Veen, and warned
that fierce competition amongst the bigger
corporate concert companies was driving up
artist fees to a point where independents
were being forced out of the market.
The Agents panel looked at the ever
increasing importance of the agent’s role in
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
as he did meeting great new performing
talent. Bruford talked of the artist SOAK,
who’s showcases were sold out, recalling
that he got involved with her when she was
16 and being managed by her Mother!
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VIPNEWS > INDEPTH STORY > JANUARY 2015
Greg Parmley MD ILMC- An Outlook For ILMC 2015 And BeyondManfred Tari [email protected]
The 27th Edition of ILMC will again take
place at London’s Royal Garden Hotel, and
will include the IPM Production Meeting,
from March 5-8.
VIP News: What will be main topics for
the agenda of the International Live
Music Conference (ILMC 27) 2015.
Greg Parmley: One of the big focuses this
year will be the effect of corporatisation on
the live music market. It’s Live Nation’s 10th
anniversary this year (since it was spun out
of Clear Channel Entertainment), so it feels
like a good moment to review the effects
that the multinational are having on the
business. We’re also going to focus on the
‘joined up’ industry - looking at new ways in
which different industry sectors are starting
to work together, to work holistically and
for a greater good... the artist.
VIP News: ILMC announced workshop
sessions with experts from You Tube
and Facebook. What can visitors expect
from these workshops?
Parmley: The main driver behind the new
workshop programme is to present in depth
sessions that delegates come away from
having learnt something new. We’re keen
to draw from external experts on specific
topics, and the YouTube and Facebook
sessions are good examples here.
The You Tube session will have two strands
- event and festival streaming, which is a
fascinating growth area right now, and
also what role the world’s largest music
website can play in routing and selling
tours and shows. The Facebook workshop
will be looking at how delegates can best
use the site for music discovery, promotion,
marketing and ticketing.
VIP News: The upcoming festival season
in Europe seems to have reached a new
level. Are we already at the stage of a
saturated festival market or is there still
room for new festivals?
Parmley: The festival industry is a hugely
entrepreneurial and creative organism;
death and rebirth is a natural part of its
existence. There are casualties every year,
as there are always new entries, often run
by those with fresh eyes or fresh ideas.
Launching a festival isn’t getting any easier,
but there will always be room for the right
new event...
VIP News: At the recent Eurosonic
mainly independent festival promoters
ventured their concerns regarding
the market power and dominance of
big corporate concerts networks. In
reference to the previous question,
do we will see a shift in terms of the
balance between major and smaller
companies?
Parmley: As artist and production fees
continue to escalate, it’s clear that it costs
a lot more to be at the table these days.
That said, there are great examples of
indies coming through - perhaps these days
it’s more a question of smaller companies
needing to be more agile, more innovative,
and to carve out a niche.
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
genre, the talent is always going to demand
more of the omelette!Greg Parmley
VIPNEWS > JANUARY 2015
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.
Jack Daniel’sLaunches Venue InitiativeFrom VIP-Daily News
Michael Boaler
King-Tuts Glasgow
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VIPNEWS > INTERVIEW > JANUARY 2015
Arndt Scheffler worked as vice president
of sales at CTS Eventim till June 2012
when he left the company and in the same
year launched the company White Label
eCommerce, a ticketing service provider
offering a DIY ticketing-platform for
promoters and artists. Today White Label
eCommerce serves 76 clients, among others
the Wacken Open Air, the concert promoter
Bomber der Herzen and lately DEAG with
their own ticketing portal Myticket.de.
VIP News spoke with Scheffler about what
it needs to serve promoters that sell a
1000 tickets per minute and what is on the
ticketing-trend-agenda in 2015....
VIP News: What is the difference
between White Label E-commerce and
the Business model of companies such
as Ticketscript, Paylogic or Amiando?
Arndt Scheffler: Our scope is actually much
wider. Besides the ‘Do It Yourself’-aspect
we also offer a full-service approach, with
accompanying services such as merchandise
products for instance. For merchandise
in particular we can even offer storage
solutions on request. The opportunity
of offering a variety of products in our
clients’ shopping carts is a big advantage
and provides the option to gain additional
income.
Furthermore we offer premium colour
tickets with a customizable print on the
backside, another potential additional
income source for our clients. Basically we
benefit from our wide-ranging knowledge
regarding the needs and requirements of
the ticketing market, which is also reflected
in the diverse functions of our software.
Our clients support us by giving valuable
feedback regarding the ongoing
development of our software and services
and we are able to adapt very fast, thanks
to the use of state-of-the-art technology.
With these obvious advantages over our
competitors we are able to gain many
customers from various sectors.
VIP News: What are the technical
and human resources of White Label
e-Commerce available to service
business partners such as the Wacken
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
designed to service significantly smaller
events and gradually grow as the number of
Arndt Scheffler- Self-Ticketing- Trends And SettingsManfred Tari [email protected]
Arndt Scheffler
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customers increase. But this type of growth
causes a constant renovation process and
brings a lot of problems. Our software
framework has already proven many years
ago in other e-commerce environments
that it performs well under high load.
Additionally, the experience of our IT staff
in terms of building portals and redundant
infrastructure with more than 10 million
views per day is an important groundwork
for the design of our software. The modern
structure of our system is certainly one of
the reasons why we, as a relatively young
company, in terms of the performance, are
able to do even better than many of the
established players.
VIP News: White Label eCommerce
recently launched a cooperation with
DEAG for their new ticketing portal
Myticket.de. How did this deal come
about?
Scheffler: Well, DEAG has dealt extensively
with the issue of ticketing and got in contact
with us. They performed a professional
evaluation process, in which we were able
to convince.
VIP News: Also the ticketing giant CTS
Eventim intend to launch a white label
shop solution. How can and, how will,
a much smaller company like White
Label eCommerce respond to such a
challenge?
Scheffler: The term white label is not
clearly defined, there are many ways
of interpretation. As a matter of fact,
Ticketmaster Germany promoted their white
label solution many months ago. However,
it is not comparable to our offer. We are
neither the first nor the only provider of
white label solutions; more important is the
business model behind it and the respective
benefits for the participants of the business.
We help our clients to retain their identity
and help them to gain more out of the
value chain for which they are responsible
anyway. We see ourselves as partners and
service providers who prefer to stand in the
background.
VIP News: What are the trends in
ticketing from the perspective of
White Label eCommerce in terms of
ticket buyers and also for promoters
in 2015. Also, is the in-house ticketing
only supplementary to the distribution
channels of CTS Eventim or TicketMaster
or already a fully-fledged alternative?
Scheffler: The proportion of online ticket
sales will continue to rise, the trend
towards e-commerce is unstoppable
and it will influence all aspects of trade.
This creates a great opportunity for all
promoters of events, to at least do a part
of their business, especially B2C related, by
themselves. Nevertheless, the multi-channel
approach by established ticket providers
will stay relevant for many more years. But
it is crucial to know about the ticket buyers
and their buying behaviour, where the
ticket price caps are, and which personal
preferences the consumers have.
In my view, a promoter should devise his
ticket distribution policy according to the
target group for an event, as there are no
black or white solutions any more. I can only
advise to try new things and encourage to
take advantage of the latest technology
available on the market. The digitisations is
certainly unstoppable and promoters should
no longer be tools to be used by third
parties, when they are actually able to take
care of their own belongings.
VIP News: At ILMC ’14, Jan Willem
Van der Meer, Managing Director of
Paylogic, raised the topic of, “Social
Ticketing”. How does White Label
eCommerce handle this subject and
how have promoters already adapted
to associated aspects such as altered
online marketing, or data analysis?
Scheffler: While the term might be
confusing, “Social Ticketing” is an integral
part of our service and produces above
average growth. Our clients sell a significant
portion of their tickets using our software on
social networks, whether Facebook, Twitter
or the artist’s own online environments.
Thanks to the analysis tools of our software,
this can be accurately measured and each
new impulse on these platforms causes
additional sales.
What is striking here, is the high percentage
of mobile users who access with smart
phones or tablets. According to a research
report published by the Allensbach Institute
at the end of November 2014, already
44 percent of the German internet using
population, is using a smart phone or
internet-enabled mobile phones. Compared
to the previous year, this number has
increased by over 24 percent. In summary,
this offers new great opportunities for
promoters and artists to develop their
customer base and benefit from much
better fan relationships. Therefore we invest
a lot of time and work in the creation of
features to support these trends.
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VIPNEWS > BUSINESS > JANUARY 2015 MUSIC IN SHARES
CTS Eventim - Some Legal Issues...
CTS Eventim recently experienced a legal hia-
tus. On December 18, the consumer protec-
tion agency of Northrhine-Westphalia filed a
written warning against CTS Eventim regard-
ing ticket sales and the accompanying service
fees for the upcoming AC/DC tour. While the
in house press release announced face value
by the promoter United Promoters for tickets
for the nine shows of the Australian Senior-
Rockers in Germany to be 80 Euro per ticket,
the ticket price finally amounted to more
than 100 Euro.
CTS Eventim offered the tickets with only
two payment options; either by direct debit
or credit card, and charged another payment
service fee on top of this. This is according to
a statement by the consumer watch dogs il-
legal, as at least one payment option is sup-
posed to be free of charges. The organisation
therefore filed a written warning against the
company. But as this is not enough, CTS Even-
tim only offered a so called premium mailing
service, charging for two tickets 19.90, and
for up to four tickets 29.90 Euro, per mail out.
What then caused an additional out cry in so-
cial media networks, was the news that the
so called “premium service” arrived at ticket
buyers in a normal envelope with a normal
post stamp with a face value of 60 Cent on.
On December 23 CTS Eventim issued a state-
ment, apologized for the inconvenience and
explaining that the lack for a cost neutral pay-
ment option was due to a technical mistake
and that ticket buyers would receive refunds.
The question regarding the unlikely expense
of a ticketing fee of more than 25 percent
per ticket and the one regarding “premium”
postal service... remain unsolved until now.
The share price on January 26 was 25.62 Euro.
DEAG - One Legal Issue
Another legal issues for CTS Eventim reltes to
the legal case filed by DEAG against the Berlin
Senate regarding the lack of a call of tenders
for new contract for the management of the
open air location Waldbühne in the German
capitol. The superior court of Berlin decided
on January 22 that the Berlin Senate could
prolong its deal with CTS Evemtim without
putting out a new call for tenders. In 2009
CTS Eventim won a tender for the manage-
ment of this location, previously managed by
DEAG for more than two decades.
The share price for DEAG raise since the begin-
ning of January rose from 6.80 to 7.80 Euro.
Live Nation - In Love With Uber & Thailand
Live Nation has implemented in its app in
the US a function to order the driving service
Uber and create pick-up/drop-off zones at
Live Nation Amphitheatres. The company fur-
thermore announced a joint venture with the
biggest promoter in Thailand BEC-Tero Enter-
tainment Public Co. Ltd to promote events
with international artists in that country. Live
Nation therewith operates now in 10 Asian
countries with local branches. The current
share price now is at $25.55.
SFX Entertainment Appoints Greg Con-
siglio As President & Chief Operating
Officer
It sounds like a big revamp. SFX Entertain-
ment mingles with Viggle, an entertainment
marketing and rewards platform with more
than 7 million users and undertook significant
restructuring measures within the board and
the management of the company. Besides
Consiglio the move comes along with various
new appointments and departures:
Kevin Arrix joins SFX as EVP and Chief Revenue
Officer. He holds the same position at Viggle
and will continue to do so. Tim Crowhurst will
move from SFX’s President to SFX’s President
and Head of Strategic Development. Ritty van
Straalen will move from SFX’s COO to SFX’s
President and CEO of Live Entertainment. Joe
Rascoff will step down from his position as
SFX’s Chairman of Live Entertainment. He will
continue to serve as Vice Chairman of SFX’s
Board of Directors. Chris Stephenson will
leave his position as SFX’s Chief Marketing
Officer to form an entertainment marketing
agency that will be affiliated with SFX.
Well, the share price of SFX Entertainment
meanwhile reaches with $3.40 a new all time
low....
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VIPNEWS > MISC > JANUARY 2015
8:58 PAUL HARTNOLL FROM ORBITALTerritory: World excl USAPeriod: May 2015 onwardsAgency: Value Added TalentAgent: Dan SilverPhone: +44 20 7704 9720E-mail: [email protected]: [email protected]
Orquesta Buena Vista Social ClubTerritory: Scandinavia, Eastern EU, UK, IrelandPeriod: June - JulyAgency: Sasa MusicAgent: David FlowerPhone: +44 20 7359 9232E-mail: [email protected]: www.sasamusic.com
Tinariwen Territory: Scandinavia, Netherlands, Eastern EU, UK, IrelandPeriod: May - September 2015Agency: Sasa MusicAgent: George PrincePhone: +44 20 7359 9232E-mail: [email protected]: www.sasamusic.com
THE ORCHESTRA starring ELO former members Territory: WorldwidePeriod: 2015Agency: World Entertainment Associates of AmericaAgent: John Regna - Artist Agent/ManagerPhone: +1 407 993 4000E-mail: [email protected]: www.THEORCHESTRAonline.com
SYSTEM 7 FEATURING STEVE HILLAGE Territory: World incl USAPeriod: May 2015 onwardsAgency: Walue Added TalentAgent: Dan SilverPhone: +44 20 7704 9720E-mail: [email protected]: [email protected]
Bo Kaspers Orkester Territory: World widePeriod: By requestAgency: Lifeline EntertainmentAgent: Michael HenrikssonE-mail: [email protected]: wwwlifeline.se
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such as Pretty Maids, Mike Tramp and more.
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