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. 1 VNPF 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 2 Venues: events and visits 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 4 Venues: income and expenditure 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 5 Festivals: events and visits 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