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WWW.VIP-BOOKING.coM VIP- News›› ›› PREmiUM VOL. 137 JUNE 2011 McGowan’s Musings: So there I was, crossing a wide and fast collectively known, strangely enough, as flowing river on bridge that looked per- Music Festivals. Encouraged by a Hop Farm fectly solid from the river bank but began sell-out with Prince, extending this year’s to sway from side to side in a strangely edition in July by a day, Power has filed the disturbing fashion when supporting the application for Music Festival’s admission weight of a man in full Scottish highland to Aim, the London Stock Exchange’s inter- dress playing the bagpipes and being national market for smaller growing com- followed by a trail of music industry folk panies, which will raise £6.5m. (See Busi- looking forward to the first drink of the ness News in this issue) Although there are evening. I was however temporarily dis- some worries being expressed about the tracted from concerns about the stability fortunes of many of this season’s events Allan McGowan of the bridge by the sight of the man up to with Reading tickets selling for less than his chest in the centre of this rushing river face value on the secondary market and unconcernedly wielding a very substantial Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, audiences being spread thin by a combi- fishing rod and also wearing a highland Tennessee, temperatures stayed in the 90s nation of a lack on new acts on the bills ‘bunnet’ while he attempted to catch fish (F), 30s (C) for almost the whole four days and increased competition (there were on their way to the one and only Loch Ness. of the event, with reports of about 1,500 715 events last year in the UK alone) other Scottish seagulls were of course hanging of the 80,000 attendees being treated for festivals and businesses have already been around looking for a chance to steal any- heat-related illnesses. Two deaths were marked for Power’s expansion – watch this thing he caught! No, I wasn’t dreaming or reported, whether or not these were as a space! under the influence, I was of course in In- result of the heat was still to be confirmed. verness at this year’s edition of Go North, a Lets hope the rest of the season wherever Talking about making money from music fine event!(See report in this issue) festivals takes place, stays free of such un- - there was a time when lots of people did fortunate casualties, and that the weather you know! – I see that Forbes, the US mag- The Festival season has kicked off with gods are kind. azine that concerns itself with the fortunes the weather again playing its leading part; (literally) of the rich and famous has pro- in the UK the Isle of Wight Festival had a In other festival news the irrepressible duced a new list of the highest earners in sunny Saturday but suffered from heavy Vince Power, the man who set up the Mean the music business (we’ve included the list rain and low temperatures on the Sunday, Fiddler in the 1980s, is going public with just in case you’re interested or might be but by all reports high spirits prevailed, his festival interests; Benicassim in Spain, thinking of calling on someone to borrow with the reformed Pulp scoring a big hit. the Hop Farm Music Festival in Kent and a few dollars, pounds or Euros!). The first At the other end of the meteorological the first Feis Festival in London, (I’m off to thing that is obvious is that, even though scale across the Atlantic at the Bonnaroo see Bob Dylan there tonight - as I write) there have been drop offs in concert ticket The VIP-Booking European Live Entertainment Book Advertising in the VIP Book will make you visible to 10.000 business professionals all over Europe. You will find no better place to expose your company to the whole European Live Entertainment Industry. ›› RESERVE yoUR AD NOW ON WWW.VIP-BOOKING.coM 1 VIP-BOOKING.COM VIP- News - June 2011 buying, these days the best way to make big bucks in the music business is tour- Trade Event ing. The lists of the top earners are very similar to the lists of top grossing tours Roundup - U2, Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga and Michael Allan McGowan [email protected] Bublé are all in the top five. How accurate these figures are is of course in question, Just as the Summer Festival season is but according to Forbes, they represent upon us we find ourselves being regu- pre-tax income earned from May 2010 larly reminded that the round of Confer- to May 2011, before subtracting agent ence and showcase events continues. and manager fees (they’d be interesting We report on VIP’s visit to last week’s to see!). As well as compiling data from Pollstar, RIAA and others, apparently (June 9/10) Scottish event GoNorth, lawyers, managers, concert promoters, and follow up with news on the events agents and, in some cases, the musi- planned for September and October in cians themselves were interviewed – so Germany, France and Finland: the figures must be completely accurate – right?! 68 year old Granddad Paul Mc- Cartney’s in there, but so is that young whippersnapper Justin Bieber – what do you do with those millions when you’re 17? The Americans are as usual ahead of the game with 17 of them in the list - although hang on, one might be Cana- dian… Go North 2011 Well, I’d better bring this to a close and goNORTH 2011was launched in 2001 to let you all get on with making your mil- provide a platform for artists from the lions – but only after you’ve read this is- north of Scotland to showcase for mu- sue of The News! We won’t be here next sic industry and media representatives month, but we’ll be back in August, so seriously I wish you all sunshine and suc- on their own patch. cess in the next few weeks! Originally hosted in several venues on Aberdeen’s Belmont Street, the event Forbes list of the world’s 25 highest- briefly relocated to Dundee, before set- paid musicians tling in Scotland’s most northerly city, Inverness. The event has since widened 1. U2 its remit becoming a Creative Industries COLOPHON ›› 2. Bon Jovi Festivals, covering Screen and Broad- 3. Elton John $100 million VIP-News is published by: cast to Designer Fashion and Publish- VIP-Booking 4. Lady Gaga $90 million 145-157 St John Street 5. Michael Buble ($70 million) ing. goNorth delivers a programme London Ec1V 4PW 6. Paul McCartney ($67 million) of panels, workshops, film screenings, 7. Black Eyed Peas ($61 million) training opportunities, Q&A sessions, Managing Director: 8. Eagles ($60 million) Ronni Didriksen camera equipment and special effects [email protected] 9. Justin Bieber ($53 million) showcases and live music showcases 10. Dave Matthews Band ($51 million) featuring over 50 bands in 9 city ven- General Manager: 11. Toby Keith ($50 million) ues. Alongside the Scottish acts this Peter Briggs 12. Usher ($46 million) [email protected] year’s programme also presented art- 13. Taylor Swift $45 million) ists from England, Ireland, Belgium, Writer and editorial: 14. Katy Perry ($44 million) Allan McGowan 15. Brad Paisley ($40 million) Norway, Latvia and Australia. [email protected] 16. Tom Petty & the Heartbreaks ($38 million) A change this year, after five successful Writer: 17. Jay-Z ($38 million) Manfred Tari years of programming a goNorth stage [email protected] 18. AC/DC ($35 million) at the RockNess Festival, is a return to 18. Sean “Diddy” Combs ($35 million) the event’s roots by supporting emerg- For advertising enquiries pls. contact 18. Beyonce ($35 million) ing talent at five independent festivals Peter Briggs [email protected] 18. Tim McGraw ($35 million) or +44 870 755 0092 18. Muse ($35 million) in Scotland: Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, The Wickerman Festival, Lay-out: 23. Rascal Flatts ($34 million) Pekaye Graphics, Phuket – Thailand 24. Kenny Chesney ($30 million) Loopallu, Summer In The City 2011 [email protected] 25. Rihanna ($29 million) and Wizard Festival. 2 VIP-BOOKING.COM VIP- News - June 2011 All acts selected to showcase at goNORTH 2011 had the opportunity to showcase at one or more of these independent festivals featured on the goNORTH Festival tour. The panels, some of which were organised and chaired by Olaf Furniss of Edinburgh’s Born To Be Wide, featured a high level of panellists and chairmen – including a ses- sion on Modern Management chaired by yours truly. I was impressed, as I have been at Scottish events in the past by the en- thusiastic attendance and involvement of delegates - people seem more prepared to gather information and to ask ques- tions than at some other events. Although I thought I was reasonably aware, I learnt a lot more about the workings of Public Per- formance Ltd – PPL for instance, and I rec- Panel at goNorth ommend artists and managers to find out more as you may well have money waiting Our tenth anniversary last year was partic- and his team for delivering a stellar event! I for you! ularly strong, but I am delighted to say that look forward to Go North 2012. goNORTH 2011 proved our most success- Keynote interviews with Feargal Sharkey of ful event to date. This year’s programme UK Music (who did for a change get to talk was the most ambitious we have delivered »This year’s programme about his Undertones days as well as his and boasted more cross creative industry was the most ambitious we present position as head of UK Music!) and activity than ever before.