Content 22019019 Members map 2 Dutch Live Music Venues Venues: events and visits 3 and Festivals Venues: work(ers) 4 Facts & Figures Venues: income and expenditure 5 Festivals: events and visits 6 Members list 7 VNPF information 8 This publication provides insight into the facts and figures for the year 2019 of 53 of the 59 music venues, and of all 52 festivals, that are members of the VNPF in October 2020. The year 2019 was a record year for the music venues and music festivals in every respect. Never before did the venues and festivals programme so many events and artist performances, and attracted so much audience, as in 2019. Never before did so many employees work so many hours to make all of this possible. This resulted in both artistic and financial records. At the time of the publication (October 2020) of these 2019 annual figures, we are still in the middle of a pandemic. COVID-19 is perhaps the biggest spoiler in the history of the live music sector in the Netherlands. Mid March 2020, all music venues had to close their doors abruptly. Events and festivals were banned. No activities could be organized by order of the government. The effects of this are still devastating: artists can no longer perform, workers no longer have a job, the audience can enjoy less live music. A great deal of damage is suffered in our experience economy. The Dutch government sees that - especially now - the cultural sector is important and, together with local governments, has generously supported parts of the live music sector during this crisis. The live music sector is very grateful to the government for this. From the summer of 2020, on a limited scale and under all kinds of restrictions, only mostly unprofitable activities are possible. Venue organizations and live music organizers are nevertheless in survival mode. They depend on limited, and otherwise very welcome, financial support from the government and are forced to reorganize and lay off personnel on a large scale. Almost all VNPF music festivals had to reschedule their festival edition 2020 to the, now increasingly uncertain, next year. This leads to an enormous loss of performances, visits, income and therefore damage, for the festivals and the entire ecosystem of suppliers. We can safely say that 2020 is the year of missed opportunities.

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Simplon Stadspark Live members Into The Great Wide Open Vera Welcome to The Village Bevrijdingsfestival Fryslân SPOT / Eurosonic Noorderslag De Oosterpoort Bevrijdingsfestival Groningen Neushoorn 2020 Rockit

Het Bolwerk Iduna Members Data VNPF members in members October 2020 2020 2019

Large music venues (1000 or more) 18 17 Holland International Blues Festival Medium sized music venues (400-999) 25 21

Small music venues (less than 400) 16 15 Manifesto Indian Summer Total music venues 59 53 Hedon Victorie Total music festivals 52 52 PX P3 Strawberry Fields Festival Corneel TOTAL MEMBERS 111 105 Bevrijdingsfestival Overijssel De Flux Lowlands Tolhuistuin Bevrijdingspop Haarlem Bevrijdingsfestival Amsterdam Het Vrije Westen Patronaat De Meester Melkweg C2C: Country to Country Once In A Blue Moon Bevrijdingsfestival Flevoland Burgerweeshuis Paradiso Metropool Duycker De Vorstin P60 Royal Park Haringrock FLUOR Tuckerville Gebr. de Nobel Catch EKKO Gigant Le Guess Who? Bevrijdingsfestival Den Haag TivoliVredenburg De Peppel Parkpop Boerderij De Helling Weekend Paard Bevrijdingsfestival Luxor Live Utrecht Bevrijdingsfestival Rewire So What! Transition Gelderland Bevrijdingsfestival Festival Zuid-Holland Motel Mozaïque Rotterdam Willemeen Unlimited Kroepoekfabriek Oranjepop Capsloc Bevrijdingsfestival

BIRD WORM Nijmegen Rotown Baroeg Bibelot Down The Rabbit Hole Left of the Dial Doornroosje Valkhof Festival Baroeg Open NN North Sea Air Groene Engel Merleyn Jazz festival

Concert at SEA Willem Twee De Pul Mezz 013

De Spot Bevrijdingsfestival Brabant

Hall of Fame Bevrijdingsfestival Roadburn Festival Jera On Air Zeeland Gebouw-T Best Kept Secret ’t Beest Latin Weekender WOO HAH! Effenaar Zomerparkfeest

So What’s Next

Grenswerk

Bevrijdingsfestival Limburg

Bospop

ECI Cultuurfabriek

Volt

Nieuwe Nor Pinkpop

Muziekgieterij

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Private letting 4.5% Private letting 11.1% Non-musical events 7.9 % Concerts in own Concerts in own spaces spaces 37.9 % 44.5%

Non-musical events EVENTS Music events EZOEKEN 23.0% on other locations B 20.6%

Music events on other locations 12.5% Club nights in own spaces 15.4% Club nights in own spaces 22.4%

18,093 events, of which 66% music events. 5,467,628 visits, of which 88% to music events.

28,862 artist performances. Live concerts attract most audience in total. Mostly Dutch acts, especially during club nights: Club nights attract most audience per event. at concerts 61% and at club nights 87%. 84% of the audience pay an admission fee. Non-musical is mainly cinema, theatre and debates. 19% of concerts and 21% of club nights is sold out.

CONCERTS CLUB NIGHTS % Foreign artists Foreign artists Free visits to free accessible events 8.4 39.2% 13.3% Paid visits 83.5% Free visits to events with admission fee 8.1%

Dutch artists Dutch artists % 60.8% 86.7

3 Venues: work(ers) DISTRIBUTION OF WORKING HOURS (FTE) PAID / UNPAID

arge venu L es Unpaid

DISTRIBUTION OF 45.5% 47.1% 15.9% WORKERS PER TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT

l venu m sized ve al es iu nu Sm d e % e s Paid employed 18.9 M

Paid hired 9.5%

Paid freelance 13.4% 84.1% Volunteers 53.5% Paid Trainees 3.8% 54.5% 52.8%

Other 0.9%

In large music venues almost all work is paid. Small and medium sized venues work more often with volunteers. Volunteers work is mostly 8,596 workers in total. done during music events, such as catering and production.

43% is paid worker: employed (19%) hired (10%) and freelance (13%). 22% of all working hours are used for management, programming, marketing and education, 23% for production, 28% for catering, and 54% is volunteer and 4% is trainee. 28% for other work such as box office, cloakroom, security, cleaning and administration. Volunteers work less hours per week in average than paid workers. 74% of all working hours (FTE) is paid. 42% of all workers is female.

DISTRIBUTION MALE/FEMALE WORKERS PER TYPE OF WORK

21% 27% 35% 44% 50% 72%

DISTRIBUTION OF WORKING HOURS (FTE) PER TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT

Paid employed 55.7%

Paid hired 8.1%

Paid freelance 8.7%

Volunteers 16.7%

Trainees 9.5%

Other 1.2% 79% 73% 65% 56% 50% 28%

Production Management Programming Marketing Catering Education

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Other 11.9 % Other 12.6% M E V E N R E V E N C O U E I T U U E I N S D S Marketing 2.8% E N Ticket sales P Private letting 2.5% X Programme 34.7% 35.9% E Sponsoring 1.7%

Accommodation 11.8 %

Subsidy 24.8%

Catering purchase 5.8%

Catering sales 22.4% Personnel 33%

€ 169.9 million total income. € 169.7 million total expenditure. 100% of the music venues is non-profit. Audience capacity has not much influence on the distribution of expenditure. Large music venues do have a higher share of 24.8% of the total income is subsidy, of which 96.1% comes from programme costs. municipalities. 62% of the programme costs concern artist fees. Other programme Large venues have a larger share of audience income. costs include copyright, booking fees, hotel, catering and backline. Smaller venues have a larger share of subsidy. 97% of the total income from ticket sales is spent on programme € 19.48 ticket sales per paid visit. costs. The programme costs are only partly covered by the ticket sales € 9.83 catering sales per visit. at medium sized venues (91%) and small venues (61%).

TO WHAT EXTENT DO TICKET SALES COVER THE PROGRAMME COSTS? 109% DISTRIBUTION INCOME PER AUDIENCE CAPACITY 100% 91%

Subsidy 21.2% Subsidy 36.0% 61% Subsidy 42.4% Other 18.9% Large venues Other 8.7% Medium sized venues % Other 12.9 Catering 21.6% Small venues Catering 26.5% Catering 21.7% horeca 27,8 % Tickets 38.3% Tickets 28.9% % Tickets 22.9% tickets 39,1

Small venues Medium sized venues Large venues

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DISTRIBUTION FESTIVALS DISTRIBUTION INDOOR/OUTDOOR FESTIVALS AND VISITS WITH AND WITHOUT ADMISSION FEE

58% Visits

33% Festivals

Festivals without admission fee

14% 4%

Festivals combination with/without admission fee

63% 71% 27% Festivals 2% 28% Combination Outdoor festival Indoor festival outdoor/indoor festival

Festivals with admission fee 73% of the music festivals is (partly) outdoor.

43% of the music festivals has (partly) free entrance. 363 music stages. These festivals attract 72% of the total audience. 3,210 performing artists. Average 62 music acts per festival. 46% of the music festivals is a multi-day festival. These festivals attract 43% of the total audience. 2.1 million visitors at one-day and multi-day festivals. 3.2 million visits at all festival days. 6 VNPF music venues October 2020 VNPF music festivals October 2020

013 Grenswerk Paradiso Baroeg Open Air Catch Pinkpop Tilburg Venlo Amsterdam Rotterdam Utrecht Landgraaf www.013.nl www.grenswerk.nl www.paradiso.nl www.baroegopenair.nl www.catchfestival.nl www.pinkpop.nl

Baroeg Groene Engel Patronaat Best Kept Secret Concert at SEA Popronde Rotterdam Oss Haarlem Hilvarenbeek Brouwersdam diverse steden www.baroeg.nl www.groene-engel.nl www.patronaat.nl www.bestkeptsecret.nl www.concertatsea.nl www.popronde.nl

Beest, ‘t Hall of Fame Peppel, De Bevrijdingsfestival Amsterdam Down The Rabbit Hole Rewire Goes Tilburg Zeist Het Vrije Westen Beuningen Den Haag www.tbeest.nl www.hall-fame.nl www.peppel-zeist.nl Amsterdam www.downtherabbithole.nl www.rewirefestival.nl www.4en5meiamsterdam.nl Bibelot Hedon Pop- en Cultuurhuis PX Eurosonic Noorderslag Roadburn Festival Dordrecht Zwolle Volendam Bevrijdingsfestival Brabant Groningen Tilburg www.bibelot.net www.hedon-zwolle.nl www.pxvolendam.nl Den Bosch www.noorderslag.nl www.roadburn.com www.bevrijdingsfestivalbrabant.nl BIRD Helling, De Pul, De Haringrock Rockit Rotterdam Utrecht Uden Bevrijdingsfestival Den Haag Katwijk Groningen www.bird-rotterdam.nl www.dehelling.nl www.livepul.com Den Haag www.haringrock.nl www.spotgroningen.nl/events/rockit www.bevrijdingsfestivaldenhaag.nl Boerderij Iduna Rotown Holland International Blues Festival Rotterdam Unlimited Zoetermeer Drachten Rotterdam Bevrijdingsfestival Flevoland Grolloo Rotterdam www.cultuurpodiumboerderij.nl www.iduna.nl www.rotown.nl Almere www.hollandinternationalbluesfestival.com www.rotterdamunlimited.com www.bevrijdingsfestivalflevoland.nl Bolwerk, Het Kroepoekfabriek Simplon Indian Summer Royal Park Sneek Vlaardingen Groningen Bevrijdingsfestival Fryslân Langedijk Baarn www.hetbolwerk.nl www.kroepoekfabriek.nl www.simplon.nl Leeuwarden www.indiansummerfestival.nl www.royalparklive.nl www.bevrijdingsfestivalfryslan.nl Burgerweeshuis Luxor Live So What! Into The Great Wide Open So What’s Next? Deventer Arnhem Gouda Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland Vlieland Eindhoven www.burgerweeshuis.nl www.luxorlive.nl www.so-what.nl Wageningen www.intothegreatwideopen.nl www.sowhatsnext.nl www.bevrijdingsfestivalgelderland.nl Capsloc Manifesto Spot, De Jera On Air Stadspark Live Capelle aan den IJssel Hoorn Middelburg Bevrijdingsfestival Groningen Ysselsteyn Groningen www.capsloc.nl www.manifesto-hoorn.nl www.despotmiddelburg.nl Groningen www.jeraonair.nl www.stadsparklive.nl www.bevrijdingsfestivalgroningen.nl Corneel Meester, De SPOT / De Oosterpoort Latin Weekender Strawberry Fields Festival Lelystad Almere Groningen Bevrijdingsfestival Limburg America Dedemsvaart www.corneel.nl www.demeesteralmere.nl www.spotgroningen.nl Roermond www.latinweekender.com www.strawberryfieldsfestival.eu www.bevrijdingsfestivallimburg.nl Doornroosje Melkweg TivoliVredenburg Le Guess Who? Transition Festival Nijmegen Amsterdam Utrecht Bevrijdingsfestival Nijmegen Utrecht Utrecht www.doornroosje.nl www.melkweg.nl www.tivolivredenburg.nl Nijmegen www.leguesswho.nl www.tivolivredenburg.nl www.4en5mei-nijmegen.nl Duycker Merleyn Tolhuistuin Left of the Dial Tuckerville Hoofddorp Nijmegen Amsterdam Bevrijdingsfestival Overijssel Rotterdam Enschede www.duycker.nl www.doornroosje.nl/merleyn www.tolhuistuin.nl Zwolle www.leftofthedial.nl www.tuckerville.nl www.bevrijdingsfestivaloverijssel.nl ECI Cultuurfabriek Metropool Vera Lowlands Valkhof Festival Roermond Hengelo Groningen Bevrijdingsfestival Utrecht Biddinghuizen Nijmegen www.ecicultuurfabriek.nl www.metropool.nl www.vera-groningen.nl Utrecht www.lowlands.nl www.valkhoffestival.nl www.bevrijdingsfestivalutrecht.nl Effenaar Mezz Victorie Motel Mozaïque Welcome to The Village Eindhoven Breda Alkmaar Bevrijdingsfestival Zeeland Rotterdam Leeuwarden www.effenaar.nl www.mezz.nl www.podiumvictorie.nl Vlissingen www.motelmozaique.nl www.welcometothevillage.nl www.bevrijdingsfestivalzeeland.nl EKKO Muziekgieterij Volt NN North Sea Jazz Festival WOO HAH! Utrecht Maastricht Sittard Bevrijdingsfestival Zuid-Holland Rotterdam Hilvarenbeek www.ekko.nl www.muziekgieterij.nl www.poppodium-volt.nl Rotterdam www.northseajazz.com www.woohahfestival.com www.bevrijdingsfestivalzh.nl FLUOR Neushoorn Vorstin, De Once In A Blue Moon Zomerparkfeest Amersfoort Leeuwarden Hilversum Bevrijdingspop Haarlem Amsterdam Venlo www.fluor033.nl www.neushoorn.nl www.devorstin.nl Haarlem www.onceinabluemoonfestival.nl www.zomerparkfeest.nl www.bevrijdingspop.nl Flux, De Nieuwe Nor Willemeen Oranjepop Zaandam Heerlen Arnhem Bospop Nijmegen www.podiumdeflux.nl www.nieuwenor.nl www.willemeen.nl Weert www.oranjepop-nijmegen.nl www.bospop.nl Gebouw-T P3 Willem Twee Parkpop Weekend Bergen op Zoom Purmerend Den Bosch C2C: Country to Country Den Haag www.gebouw-t.nl www.p3purmerend.nl www.willem-twee.nl Amsterdam www.parkpop.nl www.c2c-countrytocountry.nl Gebr. De Nobel P60 WORM Leiden Amstelveen Rotterdam www.gebrdenobel.nl www.p60.nl www.worm.org

Gigant Paard Apeldoorn Den Haag www.gigant.nl www.paard.nl

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The ‘Vereniging Nederlandse Poppodia en -Festivals’ (VNPF) is

the industry association of music venues and music festivals in Association of Dutch Music Venues and Festivals the Netherlands. In October 2020 the VNPF has 111 members, Vereniging Nederlandse Poppodia en -Festivals (VNPF) Bataviastraat 24, unit 1.13 consisting of 59 venues and 52 festivals. In the interest of 1095 ET Amsterdam The Netherlands its members the VNPF exerts influence on legislation and +31 (0) 20 4215005 [email protected] (government) policy that concern music venues and festivals. www.vnpf.nl

Important topics are, amongst others, cultural policy, working Editor Arne Dee (VNPF) conditions, sustainability, professionalization, safety, diversity and Translation inclusion. Arne Dee (VNPF)

The VNPF optimizes (pre)conditions for members where possible. Data processing music venues Arne Dee (VNPF), Fenke Legerstee (ABF Research) The association develops services for its members to improve their

performances. Thanks to collective agreements with suppliers Data processing music festivals Arne Dee (VNPF), Harry van Vliet (HvA, Festival Atlas) venues may receive discounts on different products and services. Graphic design The VNPF organizes together with partners the annual ‘Congres Helma Timmermans, www.helmatimmermans.nl

Podia | Festivals | Evenementen’, a well-attended and leading Photo credits Cover: 2016 © Jacob Morch conference for the Dutch live music sector. In doing so, it promotes Cover (right corner): 2020 © Helma Timmermans

knowledge exchange and connects people and organizations. In October 2020, 59 music venues and 52 music festivals are member of the VNPF. The information in this publication is based on the figures of 53 of these music venues and 52 For more info see www.vnpf.nl of these music festivals, that were active during 2019 and of which data are collected.

All amounts in this publication are excluded VAT. WNPF In spite of all the care devoted to the editing of this publication, the publisher cannot The VNPF office also runs the secretariat of the sister association accept liability for any damage that is the result of any error in this publication. The VNPF also wants to emphasize that the figures are totals and averages and therefore no ‘Werkgeversvereniging Nederlandse Poppodia en -Festivals’ statements can be made about individual music venues and festivals.

(WNPF), which deals with employment conditions and has ‘Dutch Live Music Venues and Festivals, Facts & Figures 2019’ is a publication of the VNPF, Amsterdam © 2020. All rights reserved. Nothing from this publication may be developed the industry’s own collective bargaining agreement NPF. multiplied, stored in an automated data file or be made public, in any form or in any way, electronically, mechanically, by means of photocopies, recordings or any other method For more info see www.caopoppodia.nl without the publisher’s prior permission.

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