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PREMIUM ›› VOL. 86 ›› NOVEMBER 2006
Music & Media
Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com
McGowan’s Musings:
At this moment of writing I’m not even sure
that this Newsletter will ever get read by any
of you as I cannot send or receive emails, two
bloody machines, and as we say not a dickey
bird out of either of them in terms of communication with the outside world! So hopefully my friend Jon, he who ‘knows about these
things’ will get me back on line. Of course if
you’re reading this he has, if you’re not it’s all
academic and I may as well continue talking
to myself!
I have recently been dwelling on things to do
with the access and the new worlds offered,
and in my case often denied, by computers, as
I seem to be hearing a lot about Second Life.
This as most of you will know is a computer
world where new identities and lifestyles can
be indulged in; it is all taken very seriously by
individuals and corporations alike. Concerts
are to be staged in Second Life, and much as
we have all been comforted by the maxim
‘You can’t recreate the live experience’ it
seems that the ‘avatars’ that will attend these
shows will although on their own in the real
world, enjoy one aspect of the live concert,
and that is the company of other members
of an audience in the computer generated
concert venue. Is this just the beginning, and
is technology about to try us as it has the recording industry? Just a thought.
Allan McGowan
On the theme of the radical changes brought
about by the new technologies and media, I
attended the Beyond the Soundbytes Conference, developed to facilitate debate in
response to Peter Jenner’s recent report of
the same name, and arranged by the excellent Music Tank organisation in London last
week. This day long conference brought
together professionals from all aspects of
the business, ranging from Billy Bragg representing the artists, to managers, record
companies, rights organisations, multimedia companies etc to confront the present
growing crisis and to seek possible solutions
and viable business models for the future
I would encourage anybody interested in
this, bearing in mind that there may well
be knock on effects for the live business to
check: www.musictank.co.uk for a report
on the conference and to order a copy of the
report.
So – if you’re still with me.... Here is the
News.
Heeding the warning from Ville
Kilpeläinen of Musexpo to bring a
warm coat I traveled to Tampere ‘the Manchester of Finland’ for Music & Media on the last weekend of
October. I’m glad I took the advice,
it snowed – a bit – and hit minus 5
– one morning, otherwise the welcome was warm, the vodka cold,
and, in the main, the showcasing
talent - hot!
The Conference is definitely developing year on year and this 17th edition attracted the largest gathering
of international music executives
so far with professionals from 12
different countries in attendance.
The growth of Music & Media appears to directly parallel the development of Finnish music in export
terms. At one time not so very long
ago this event was attended only
by the Finnish business, now the
international involvement reflects
the success of Finnish acts in other
territories, Germany and Scandinavia are the main markets, but there
is significant breakthrough now in
the US. As is now traditional the
Friday morning of the Conference
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began with Paulina Ahokas, Director of the
Finnish Music Export Office delivering the
export facts and figures for the year 2005:
These put the put the total value of Finnish music exports at €28.89m, an increase
of 33% over the previous year. Overall
since 1999 the industry has experienced
an annual growth rate of 40%. Also more
international acts are now playing Finland
on the way to concert dates in Russia and
Eastern Europe.
Panels were delivered in either Finnish or
English, my Finnish being a little rusty I
opted for the ones I understood. These
included a presentation by music ‘futurist’ Gerd Leonhard, on how to prepare for
the new music business. A very interesting
interview with David Fricke, the editor of
Rolling Stone, recalling 5 hour interviews
with Keith Richard, and a more recent
evening with Patti Smith at the last night
of CBGB’s. A panel of extremely influential US radio and record professionals plus
the UK’s Laurence Bell of Domino Records
(Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys) chaired
by Sat Bisla of A&R Worldwide which discussed breaking into the Us, and an interview with David Dorrell, manager of The
Pet Shop Boys, conducted by my old friend
Tapio Korjus.
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So the daytime schedules were well taken
care of, and as usual Finnish hospitality was
generous, we internationals were wined
and dined at a reception and the Finnish
Music Awards Dinner on Friday. Then came
the showcases, mainly, thankfully in view
of the weather, at venues within walking
distance of each other. I was impressed by
several of the acts, Firstly Rubik, who will
also appear at Eurosonic in Groningen, and
will I’m sure pick up Festival dates this year
as a result, the optimistically named Eternal Erection (should be on Stiff Records!),
basically a very good funk band,. I’m not
normally a Doom Metal fan, but there was
something about Swallow The Sun, who I
Callisto
Poets of the Fall
watched with David Fricke, who was highly
impressed by all the Finnish acts that he
saw , (He also impressed me by telling me
that his next assignment was picking Robert Plant up in Memphis to travel down
to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to investigate
Plant’s blues roots). I also really enjoyed 22Pistepirkko (apparently this means 22 spot
ladybird..?), the band have been around for
25 years and play a very interesting mix of
everything. Von Hertzen Brothers could
definitely do a stadium tour with U2, and
maybe give them a run for their money,
and Poets of The Fall have gone platinum
in Finland, and could do elsewhere.
Obviously I didn’t get to see everything,
but it seems that the Finnish export business will continue to grow, firstly because
it has to, as the home market is too small
to produce the necessary returns, secondly
because this realization is backed up by a
continual and hard working export drive –
evident at every major international trade
show, and thirdly and most importantly
because they have the talent to back it up.
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T in The Park Wins Best Festival at
UK Festival Awards 2006
Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com
Scotland’s T in the Park Festival won
the ‘Best Major Festival’ award for the
second consecutive year at the first live
UK Festival Awards, which took place
in London’s Islington. The Awards were
based purely on votes from the public
who were asked to register their votes
over a three week period at:
www.festivalawards.com
Festival organisers Big Day Out and
founding partners Tennent’s Lager stated that they were thrilled by the overwhelming support shown by the Festival’s dedicated fans and felt that their
votes underlined T in the Park’s status as
a key event in not only the UK, but also
the global music calendar.
T in the Park 2006 sold out in under an
hour in February making the festival the
UK’s fastest selling. This year’s 75,000
strong crowd watched 170 artists including
Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Pharrell,
Editors, Sigur Ros, Paul Weller, Richard
Ashcroft, Arctic Monkeys and Editors
perform on 11 stages, from the Main
Stage to the new 8,000 capacity Pet
Sound Arena and the first stage in Europe to be dedicated to homegrown
talent – the T Break Stage. Red Hot Chili
Peppers and The Who headlined Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th respectively.
Two days after the fireworks finale of
the 2006 edition a third of the tickets for
next year’s event, on Saturday 7th and
Sunday 8th July sold in under 70 minutes.
Geoff Ellis, CEO of Big Day Out Ltd commented: “We are so proud to have won
the Best Festival Award for the second
time running and particularly in a year
when the event went Carbon Neutral. We
always work hard to ensure that as T in
the Park grows year on year we don’t rest
on our previous achievements or take our
loyal fans for granted and it is extremely
gratifying to see that the fans appreciate
this and have voted T number one! We are
already planning T in the Park 2007 and
we will strive to make sure that we remain
worthy of this title for another year!”
More Information at:
www.tinthepark.com
Geoff Ellis
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Annual Noorderslagweekend
Confirms First Acts for 2007
Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com
The Noorderslag Weekend, consisting of
the EuroSonic and Noorderslag festivals
and the Noorderslag Seminar business
conference will again take place in Groningen, The Netherlands from 11 - 13 January
2007. The first of over 240 bands and acts
scheduled to perform at the Showcases
have been confirmed. 2000 music industry
professionals are expected to attend the
event, which is dedicated to new bands
and new music from Europe. Italy will be
the featured country for this edition and
will present a significant number of showcases.
Visions will take over venues at EuroSonic,
and Spain’s Mondo Sonoro and NME.com
(UK) will present showcases at the festival.
Over fifteen EBU radio stations throughout Europe will broadcast the Noorderslag
Weekend live, so far confirmed are 3fm
(nl), Studio Brussels (b), Eins Live (g), Rai
Due (i) and DR (dk). Also a number of the
stations will produce special shows at the
festival. The German magazines Intro and
‘We are focussing on more and more
networking facilities for the industry at
the Seminar’, says creative director Peter
Smidt: ‘More and more companies are using the festival to bring new talent to the
attention of festivals, media and other
business peers.’
Ono (DK), Voltaire (PL), Johnossi (S), Lunik
(CH), James Yorkston (UK), Textures (NL),
La Caution (F), Mumm-ra (UK), The Je Ne
Sais Quoi (S), Disco Drive (I), Tying Tiffany
(I), Linea 77 (I), Tunng (UK), El Perro Del Mar
(S), Datarock (N), Goose (B), William White
(CH), Dead Combo (P), Neo (H), Montevideo (B), Standard (E), Hot Club de Paris
(UK), Velojet (A), Dúné (DK), Ivo Bič (SLO),
Poni Hoax (F), House of Games (EST), Duke
Special (IRL), Tomte (D) and Sunshine Underground (UK).
Groningen, with an all-Dutch program.
Confirmed now are El Pino and the Vol-
unteers, Dennis, DiceCream, Delain and
Room Eleven.
EuroSonic
EuroSonic takes place on 11 and 12 January in 30 venues in Groningen city centre.
So far confirmed are: Salem al Fakir (S), Islaja (FIN), Julie Feeney (IRL), Rubik (FIN), LoFi-Fnk (S), Alternosfera (MOL), Lapko (FIN),
D2 (BG), Air Traffic (UK), Metro (L), Oh No
Noorderslag
Noorderslag takes place on 13 January on
seven stages in De Oosterpoort venue in
Noorderslag Seminar
The Noorderslag Seminar takes place
from 11 - 13 January in De Oosterpoort:
The business conference will feature panels on conducting business in Italy and a
presentation of the Italian music industry,
the seminar also has around 30 Dutch language panels and meetings. Themes cov-
ered in the seminar’s international meetings are health & safety at festivals, touring
in Europe, new marketing possibilities and
the role of new media. A special meeting
will be set up for festival marketing and
print press marketing professionals. Also,
the IMMF (International Music Managers
Forum) will have it’s annual meeting at
Noorderslag Seminar, while Yourope (the
European festival platform) and Network
Europe (the European conglomerate of
independent live music bookers, promoters and agents) will again convene at
Noorderslag Seminar.
ETEP: European Talent Exchange Program
Aimed at stimulating the careers of European artists, the European Talent Exchange Program (ETEP) is a unique cooperation between 51 festivals, 24 EBU
national radio stations, the European
Music Office (EMO) and the international
festival organisation Yourope.
Between 2003 and 2006, ETEP has been
instrumental in staging close to 400 festival shows by 110 artists from 15 countries.
The ETEP festivals booking teams make
their selections for ETEP from the artists performing during the Noorderslag
Weekend.
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Acts booked at EuroSonic that appeared
at the ETEP festivals in 2006 include Disco
Ensemble (fin), Editors (uk), Infadels (uk),
GEM (nl), Jose Gonzales (s), Rhesus (f), The
Kooks (uk), Wir Sind Helden (g), Within
Temptation (nl).
VIP- News - N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 6
Nokia New Years Eve 2007
– A Global Multi Mega Event
Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com
With what can only be described as a logistical and marketing extravaganza, Nokia plans to take its concert activities to another level. On New Years Eve 2007, at the
Ocean Terminal in Hong Kong, the mobile
phone manufacturers kick off a concert
and event series that will celebrate the
coming year..
Besides Hong Kong further events are
scheduled in chronological sequence
with world time at the Andheri Stadium
in Mumbai, followed by the Brandenburg
Gate in Berlin, the Ipanema Beach in Rio
de Janeiro and a final happening in New
York.
The Black Eyed Peas and the Scissor Sisters
are the first acts announced for New York.
For live music industry veteran Harvey
Goldsmith, the Nokia New Year’s Eve may
retain a touch of Christmas. Goldsmith has
been hired by Nokia to oversee the event
and is quoted in a press release as saying:
“This is an exciting and ambitious project
and the first time that New Year’s Eve will
be celebrated as a global music event.
Nokia New Year’s Eve will feature international and local artists with live broadcasts
on New Year’s Eve as well as a New Year’s
Day TV special to be aired globally. I am
delighted to be on board.”
sic activities as a substantial part of its
marketing measures.
This comment reveals a little of the dimensions of this undertaking, but as Jo Harlow,
Senior Vice President of Marketing at Nokia further describes the event the picture
becomes even clearer: “Living up to our
promise of ‘Connecting People’, Nokia
New Year’s Eve aims to connect millions
of people from around the world through
music and mobility. Nokia New Year’s Eve
leverages the power of television, the internet, live events and the world’s most exciting music artists to get people talking,
sharing and celebrating on one incredible
night.”
“Connecting People” is one of the key
slogans of the company and over the last
decade Nokia is one of the very big brands
that has continuously integrated live mu-
Nokia expects 1.3 million visitors world
wide to attend the free events, with 150
million expected to watch via TV and Internet broadcasts.
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Currently the company is negotiating with
various TV stations in key territories to
broadcast live and is booking headliners
to enrich the global line up for the shows.
It goes without saying that all involved in
this event will have an extraordinarily busy
rest of 2006!
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VIP-News Talks with Kristina Bohlmann
of Nokia
Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com
VIP-News: Nokia is one of the very few
global brands that regularly use live music for their marketing activities. Please
tell us what makes events and concerts
so interesting for Nokia?
Kristina Bohlmann: Nokia has a long
tradition in sponsoring music events and
concerts. We connect people to music, to
their favourite artists through events and
venues around the world, such as Nokia
Trends, Live8 and now through Nokia New
Year’s Eve. For a decade now we have also
sponsoried the famous Nokia Night of the
Proms in Germany. As the world’s largest
manufacturer of digital music players, in
fact, we expect to sell 80 million musicenabled devices this year, the connection
between the Nokia brand, our range of
music products and outstanding music
events is a natural fit. Especially at live
music events people are able to “feel the
music”. This experience is a very emotional one. But you have to make sure to
choose the appropriate events. For us it
is essential to focus always on the proper
target groups and the most important
thing is to be credible. Nokia Trends for example, which is all about music in unique
places, is addressed to a young people
listening to Hip-Hop and electronic music. However the Nokia Night of the Proms
does have a completely different focus, a
focus on classical music. Nokia New Year’s
Eve is the next step. With this event we approach people all over the world simultaneously. People are celebrating on four
different continents, across five different
time zones.
VIP-News: Big brands uses research
quite intensively to find out how their
Marketing measures are accepted by
customers and individual target groups.
How meaningful are research results
that lead to the decision of promoting
an event such as “Nokianewyearseve”?
Or is it the case that there is a common
consensus among responsible decision
takers at Nokia that believe in an idea
like this?
requires a lot of manpower. For a project
like Nokia New Year’s Eve many departments on a global and local level are
working cross-functionally together. And
of cause we are also working with external
partners to guarantee that we have the
right expertise in place.
Bohlmann: The idea of Nokia New year’s
Eve wasn’t the decision of a single person
at Nokia. Of course also at Nokia market
research is playing a major role - not only
when it comes to Music or sponsoring. The
results definitely slip into the decisions as
to which approach Nokia takes when it
comes to sponsoring. But it needs more
then only believing in research results. At
Nokia there are dedicated people dealing
with these kinds of topics. At the end the
decision to promote an event like Nokia
New Year’s Eve is a combination of many
parameters. However, the most important
thing is to be credible - what ever we do
have to fit to the brand. Even if you might
have a great, unique idea - if it does not
fit to the brand, people out side will not
believe you.
VIP-News: T-Mobile just announced
downloads of concerts via their various
platforms. Can we expect similar services from Nokia?
VIP-News: Please tell us how “nokianewyearseve” has been developed internally
and was the idea for this event invented
within Nokia itself or was raised externally?
Bohlmann: Both. The idea to promote the
Nokia New Year’s Eve event was invented
by internal as well as by external experts.
VIP-News: How many departments and
people of Nokia are involved in such a
mega event?
Bohlmann: By nature such an event across
four continents and five different countries
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Bohlmann: Nowadays mobility gets more
and more important. Convergence is the
keyword. With the Nokia N series, we already account for this. With the Nokia N
series consumers can already use a single
device to do everything from snapping
print-quality images, reading e-mail, listening to music browsing the Web, watching TV on the move and much more. To
offer a comprehensive mobile music experience to consumers Nokia has acquired
Loudeye Corp. With this acquisition Nokia
aims to be a global leader in mobile music
- offering people ease-of-use and the best
possible music experience. We can achieve
this by offering an integrated solution for
people to listen, discover and purchase
music, anywhere, anytime. Our vision is
for people to be able to access all the music they want, anywhere, anytime and at a
reasonable cost.
VIP-News: How did the collaboration
with Harvey Goldsmith come about?
Bohlmann: In 2005 we already worked
together very successfuly with Harvey
Goldsmith in regard to the Live8 concerts.
The very positive experiences we made together led to the close collaboration again
for Nokias New Year’s Eve party.
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T-Online – Concerts As Downloads
Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com
For the first time T-Online, a subsidiary
of the German telco Telekom will include
concert recordings as part of its product
range for its Video On Demand library.
As an initial appetiser the company is offering a free download of the concert video “Live at Slaine Castle 2000” with Bryan
Adams.
The 56 minute recording is available in
High Definition resolution for PCs and
mobile devices. The play out is accessed
via the Windows Media Player (WMA) only
and, as is typical with many Microsoft
products, protected by several data safety features that are great for Microsoft but
not necessarily for users.
A data management application restricts
the viewable time to 24 hours, within
which it can be watched as often as possible. At present 21 different recordings
are available.
Consumers can choose between live recordings of The Hives - Tussles in Brussles,
length 49 min., Franz Ferdinand - Live
from Edinburgh 2005 (71 min.), Hard Fi
- Live at the Astoria 2005 (56 min.), Cher
- Living Proof Tour 2002 (60 min.), Avril
Lavigne - Live from Buffalo 2003 ( 77 min)
and, from the series London Live - Volume
1, Sugarbabes, The Rifles, Delays, Editors,
through to Volume 10 with Boy Kill Boy
The Pipettes, Graham Coxon and Dirty
Pretty Things (28 min.). Each video download is charged at 1.99 Euro per day.
In a higher price category videos are available for 2.99 Euro per day. In this section
are INXS - Live from Wembley 1991 (92
min) and Gorillaz - Live from the Apollo
2006 (69 min). Classical music also costs
2.99 Euro per download, even though
there is a limited choice of only two recordings, BBC Glyndebourne 2002 Carmen (172 min) and BBC Proms 2004: Anna
Netrebko with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (101 min).
Bryan Adams - Live at Slaine Castle 2000
This video on demand library has been
online for three years now and currently
offers 1300 videos, the majority of this
content being a variety of Hollywood
movies, cartoons, documentaries and TV
series.
T-Online and MTV – Research For Talents
Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com
Online competition offers newcomer acts
a slot at the Hurricane festival 2007
The MTV Web Award is sponsored by TOnline. The award is divided into seven
categories, including best song, best artist web site, best community web site,
best fan site or best newcomer web site.
T-Online offers all artists that apply to
take part in this competition and do not
yet have a web site, a basic online set
to create their own for one year, free of
charge. The normal price for the service is
9.95 Euro per month and includes 500 MB
web space, 100 email address and three
domains.
opportunity to play at the upcoming Hurricane Festival 2007 to be held in Scheessel on June 22 to 24.
The winner of the category “Best Song”
receives the opportunity to play at the
Hurricane-Festival 2007. To take part in
this category acts have to post an MP3 file
on their web site and submit their details
to www.mtv.de/webaward.
Visitors to the web award site then vote
online for their favourite song. As the
main prize the winning artists receive the
MTV Web Awards
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CTS Eventim - A Surprising Turnaround
Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com
Slightly unexpectedly the share of CTS
Eventim dropped by about nine percent
on the day before CTS Eventim reported
the results for the third quarter.
While on first view the results appear to
be in line with previous business reports
where CTS Eventim, almost as the norm,
declared improved results, on closer inspection something appears to be different. CTS Eventim is and remains to be the
most successful German concert company by far. The undisputed market leader
in the business segments Live Entertainment and Ticketing once again is on its
way to archive another record breaking
business year.
At the end Q3- 2006 the company turnover
rose by 41% to 258 million Euro. In the same
period in 2005 the turnover was 183 million
Euro. The Earnings Before Taxes and Interest (EBIT) jumped about 51% up to 34 million Euro (Q3-2005 22.4 Million. Euro). The
overall results were positively stimulated
by the World Cup 2006 which also led to a
higher acceptance of buying tickets online
among consumers in general.
The Company mention in their business
report that from July 1 until September 30
thatticket sales via the internet rose significantly. Until September 30, excluding
World Cup Tickets, 3.1 million tickets were
sold online. This is an increase of about
52.5 % compared to last years figures.
a growth of 64.2% compared to the 10,3
million Euros in the previous year.
The Live Entertainment division did extremely well, even with the competition
from the world cup, reporting a turnover
of 187.1 m. Euro. In the entire business
year 2005 this department gained revenue of 194.7 m. Euro. That means that
chances are good that CTS Eventim will
again upgrade its results in their core
business.
The EBIT for this division is declared with
13.5 m Euro rising from 10.4 m. the EBITDA increased from 10.7 m Euro in Q3-2005
to 13.9 m which is a plus of 29.7 %.
For the EBITDA (Earnings before Interests,
Taxes, Depreciation and Amortisation)
CTS Eventim declared 38.6 Million Euros
an increase of about 50% compared to
last year’s result of 25.8 million. Euros.
Group earnings were 16.9 million Euro,
The ultimate profit gainer for CTS Eventim
remains it’s ticketing division. With a turnover of 73.3 million Euro (Q3-2005/43,6
million Euro) CTS gained an EBIT result
of 20.4 million Euro compared with 12 m
the year before. The EBITDA climbed from
15.1 million up to 24.8 million euro.
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The business report was released on November 15, but the CTS share dropped
on November 14. The reason was mainly
because two analyst reports that came
to the conclusion that the profit results in
the third quarter are not as good as expected.
The writer of the overall positive portrait
about the success story of the entrepreneur meant with his headline everything
else than “to return”. However, the share
price dropped but nevertheless CTS
Eventim seems to already be again on its
way to another record breaking year. The
complete business report for the first nine
months will be published on the web site
of the company on November 21.
DZ Bank recommended a short term sell
of the share, while Cheuvreux recommended to underweight the share. On
November 14 the share went down from
28.49 to 26,50, on November 15 from
26.50 to 26.00 and until the Friday, November 17 down to 25.
50 Euro.
Without any doubt this is certainly something Klaus Peter Schulenberg, CEO of
CTS Eventim neither expected nor aimed
for as the financial market immediately.
reacted to these reports. On November 15
the German financial paper Handelsblatt
carried a feature story with the headline
“Rhythm and Return” about Schulenberg.
Klaus Peter Schulenberg
DEAG – Outlook For Prosperity
Manfred Tari mt@vip-booking.com
The current published nine-month business report didn’t lead to any positive impulses for the DEAG share price. In fact the
opposite was the case.
From November 8 to November 17 the
share went down from 1.78 euro to 1.63.
Nothing spectacular but also a sign that
investors demand better results than
DEAG just reported. Nevertheless according to the company DEAG “has managed
to continue the positive trend of the past
quarters.”
The reported figures are significantly
smaller than the ones of CTS Eventim.
As the turnover for the past nine-month
DEAG declared 60.4 million Euro. The EBIT
went from minus 0.1 million Euro in the
same period in 2005 up to 4 million Euro
this year.
with 1.5 million Euro for this period. For
the next year DEAG expects that these
expenses will be significantly lower due
to the expiring of the DEAG convertible
bonds of about 4.5 million Euro on November 29, the discontinuation of a repurchase agreement and furthermore the
scheduled redemptions of other loans.
Even if the numbers are smaller the results
of DEAG also reveal an upward movement
in its two core businesses. In the past nine
months until September 30 The Live Touring division gained a turnover of about
23.7 million Euro and EBIT of 1.6 million
Euro. In the same period in 2005 the turnover in this segment was 14.3 million Euro
while the EBIT was 0.5 million Euro.
DEAG still suffers from the burden of
high costs of capital which are indicated
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Within the division Entertainment Services the turnover is indicated with 37.2 million Euro compare to 30.3 million Euro the
year before. As EBIT results DEAG reported for this part of the company 4.9 million
Euro instead of 3.3 million Euro in 2005.
The group earnings currently at 53.000
Euro may explain why the share the “positive trend” the company declares itself
isn’t mirrored in a better price of the
share.
In an additional press release the Company announced that new business fields
are expected to grow above average. As
potential growth gainers the company
sees concerts with classical music, comedy and DEAG Music. For DEAG Classics
the company forecast in 2007 a turnover
of about 12 million Euro alone. DEAG Classics is filed under the Live Touring Division
while DEAG Music belongs to the Entertainment Services.
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King Tut’s:
Award Winning Venue with Record Label
Allan McGowan am@vip-booking.com
Owned and managed by Scotland’s leading music promoters DF Concerts, Glasgow’s wonderfully named King Tut’s Wah
Wah Hut has become a legendary live
music venue, not just in the City, but also
throughout Scotland, in England and beyond.
In 1990 DF Concerts’ former boss Stuart
Clumpas saw the need to promote bands
at club level and to present them seven
days a week in Glasgow, unable to find
suitable venues in the city centre he decided to start one himself. Borrowing the
name from a venue in New York, Clumpas
opened King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, in February of that year in basement premises
in Glasgow’s St Vincent Street. The initial
aim was to offer Scotland’s best line up of
new and established bands, and to provide a relaxing place to enjoy good food
and drink. Audience and bands appreciated the club’s approach, and very quickly the venue came to the notice of agents
and managers beyond the city and the
Scottish borders.
The list of bands that played King Tut’s
on their way to stardom is to say the least
impressive, it includes: Radiohead, Manic
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Street Preachers, Coldplay, The Strokes,
The Killers, The Darkness and more recently Razorlight, Magic Numbers, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys and Maximo Park.
The venue is perhaps best known for
being the place where Oasis were discovered by Alan McGee in 1993. Further
recognition of the fact that playing at
the club was an important step in the
careers of an ever increasing number of
bands came earlier this year when King
Tut’s beat off stiff competition including
London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire and
The Royal Albert Hall to be named Best
UK Venue at The Music Week Awards in
March 2006. Quite an achievement for
a 300 capacity venue, although they do
present some 330 gigs a year!
BBC Radio One have also nominated King
Tut’s as the ‘Best Launch Pad Venue’ and
the ‘UK’s Best Live Venue’. More recently,
the venue also picked up the ‘Best Venue’
title at the Radio Clyde awards as well as
being named by New York magazine as
number seven on their list of the top fifty
places to visit in the world.
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Commitment to New Talent:
Dave McGeachin has worked as a promoter for DF Concerts and alongside
Ross Morrison, booked the artists for King
Tut’s for the past 8 years. Previous to this
he promoted local shows from ’89 to ’94,
working with acts like the Manic Street
Preachers and Suede, before going into
tour managing. Dave told us about new
initiatives that were introduced into their
operation as part of its commitment to
unsigned bands, “ Tut’s has always been
a launch platform for live acts and we had
incredibly talented unsigned acts coming
through the doors on a daily basis. Over
the years Geoff Ellis and myself and the
others in the office had discussed ways of
extending that aspect, a label seemed an
obvious idea.”
The launch of the label was announced
on June 8, King Tut’s Recordings mission
statement is to take the ‘Your Sound’ concept a stage further in order to discover
and sign new bands at the venue - much
like when the then little known Oasis
were signed by Alan McGee at King Tut’s
in 1993. Dave McGeachin says, “ The label
will operate in a similar way to the venue
itself, as a launch pad for exciting new
acts, to attract attention from labels interested in long term involvements with the
bands. The Dykeenies double a-side single was released in July, it sold very well,
and as a result the band are now signed
to major label Lavolta. They won’t release
another single on King Tut’s Recordings
but KTR will be releasing singles by other
bands in the very near future.”
Other acts that have come to the fore as a
result of the ‘Your Sound’ events include
The Physics and The Yellow Bentines who
will appear on the Tennents sponsored
VERSAcoustic tour, which will take place
across six Scottish towns and cities in early 2007. Next January Tut’s will present a
showcase of all the bands that have benefitted from ‘Your Sound’.
Day to day business continues at King Tut’s,
Dave McGeachin concludes, “We’ve been
updating and installing new pieces of production, we’ve had some great shows over
past few months with the likes of Mumm-Ra,
Enter Shikari, Little Man Tate, Sparklehorse
and Howling Bells, and I for one am very
much looking forward to unearthing some
more of the fantastic new talent out there!”
In November ’05 Tut’s introduced ‘Your
Sound’, a networking project to give local
bands a place where they could network
with each other, get free advice on how
to succeed in the industry as well as get
their demo played to an audience of music lovers and industry professionals.
At the very first of these events Dave was
given a 6-track demo by a band that had
only been together for three months, and
had never played a gig, called The Dykeenies. He continues, “ I thought it was
amazing and I called them up. They were
extremely self motivated and had great
talent. They played the club in January
and through their use of the My Space
thing they sold out. Since then they have
played numerous gigs, including a spot
on the Tea Break stage at T-in the-Park,
and of course they were the first signing
to King Tut’s Recordings.”
Dave McGeachin
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Dear Reader,
Below a very recent request (first in English,
then in Dutch) from family and friends of
Louis Sévèke, who was murdered nearly a
year ago in my hometown Nijmegen, The
Netherlands. I personally knew Louis and
valued him as a very active, knowledgeable
and socially motivated person. So far, one
year on, no suspect has been arrested and
the police investigation continues (albeit
with a smaller team).
Please read the text below, please have
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witnesses immediately after the shooting),
and please do not hesitate to forward this
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killer could very well be from outside of
Holland or could very well currently reside
outside of Holland.
For information leading to the arrest or
identification of the perpetrator(s), the
Dutch District Attorney has made a reward
available of 25.000 EUR.
Police sketch suspect murder LS
Thank you so much for your help!
Rob Berends
Who killed Louis Sévèke?
Do you know more?
Last year, on November 15, 9:05 pm, Dutch
in his work: we will be relentless in our atplease do come forward nevertheless. First
political activist Louis Sévèke was murtempts to find out the truth. People with
reason is that often it shows, in a conversadered in the city center of Nijmegen, The
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