All Entries Tagged With: "live music"
Exclusive Q & A: Alexander Will & Henry Erskine Crum – Founders of Bullseyehub.com
TMV sub-editor Chris Hainslin talks to Alexander Will and Henry Erskine Crum about the recent launch of Bullseyehub.com. The founders of Spoonfed are predicting a radical change in the music industry, and are already one step ahead. When was Bullseyehub launched and how long did it take to develop? Bullseyehub launched in June 2010. Our [...]
Event Report – The Great Escape (Brighton, UK)
The Music Void’s Chris McLellan reports from the 5th year of the UK’s Great Escape music Convention and Showcase (Brighton, UK May 13-15), which bills itself as “Europe’s Leading Festival For New Music”. Just a short 50 minute train journey from central London is the Victorian spa town of Brighton. With its famous pebble beach [...]
Is Live Nation Prevented from Bundling Live Performances into Ticket Sales Now?
A meeting of minds between the largest events promoter and the largest digital music retailer means music fans can soon buy downloadable audio or video concert footage at select shows and at 80 venues. Live Nation will provide iTunes with exclusive downloadable videos of select concerts performed at more than 80 venues. The venues are [...]
Event Report – ‘Live & Kicking’ At OpenMusicMedia (London)
The Music Void was rewarded for making the journey across an uncharacteristically cold and snowy London last week in order to attend the monthly digital music pow-wow known as “OpenMusicMedia”. Held at the William IV pub near Old St., conveniently close to the Last FM mothership, some of the UK capital’s most interesting people from [...]
Ticketmaster In Merger Talks With Live Promoters
Ticketmonster is on the warpath. Again. The live music sector is inching ever closer to becoming, erm, how to put this politely, more ‘consolidated’ today with the announcement that ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster is in merger discussions with promotion giants AIG and Live Nation.
HMV UK Acquires Stake In Mama Group
His master’s voice has just got slightly louder in the UK. Music retailer HMV Group has entered the British live music game with its purchase of a 50% stake in the Mama Group. The joint venture includes 11 live music and entertainment venues in the UK, including the Hammersmith Apollo in London, which will be [...]
AMG/Live Nation get Closer with O2 Live Venues Tie Up
O2 today announced it is extending its partnership and interactive services with live music company Live Nation across the UK to a further eleven venues. From 1 January, eleven Live Nation/Academy Music Group (AMG) venues will be renamed as O2 Academies with the operator’s subscribers offered priority access. O2 expects around 3.5m fans to be affected by [...]
Revisit To Can New Up and Coming Artists Afford To Give Away Their Music For Free?
After lecturing a bunch of 14 – 17 year old teenagers on the future of the music industry last Thursday, I have had to revisit some of the opinions I outlined in my previous article focusing on this topic. Compounding this was a number of comments on that particular article and especially one from a high level English Music Promoter forcefully stating that my views were very “old school”. This same industry executive also went on to state that new and upcoming artists should be giving away their music for free in return for collecting fans email addresses.
Live Promoters Driving The Business Model Change?
With recorded music increasingly being given away for free and 360 deals becoming the norm, is copyright enforcement critical to the survival for the recorded music business? Live music promoters are the only companies offering large advances for 360 type deals with artists, so is the 360 model the way of the future? Who are the winners and losers in these deals?
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Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...
