Live Nation has sold the Foxwoods Theatre in New York to Lyric Theatre, LLC, a subsidiary of Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG). The Foxwoods Theatre will become the 40th theatre in the ATG portfolio and the UK company’s first theatre in the United States. Ticketing for the Foxwoods Theatre will continue to be provided by Ticketmaster
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Live Nation sells Foxwoods Theatre to UK’s ATG
SoundCloud is set to open an office in New York City and has appointed former Pandora exec Dan Gerber to its team. Gerber formerly held the position of national director of Strategic Partnerships at the internet radio company and is SoundCloud’s first NYC-based hire
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SoundCloud hires Pandora director, set to open New York office
In what it’s called a “first for the music industry”, Kobalt has unveiled a new client-facing technology portal that allows rights-holders to see usage data and royalties earned on YouTube user-generated content.
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Kobalt unmasks new portal, accounts for YouTube user-generated content
Live Nation saw revenues grow 6.4% in Q1 2013 while cutting its net losses by just under $6 million year-on-year. While revenues for the live giant stood at $923.7 million in the first quarter, the company’s net loss came in at $63.2 million compared to $69.2 million in the same period last year
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Live Nation Q1 revenue up 6.4% as net losses narrow
The venue formerly known as The Masque and The Barfly has now re-opened as East Village Arts Club under its new owners MAMA Group. EVAC opened its doors on April 19 after undergoing a £1.5m makeover – it had previously been empty since it closed over a year ago when the previous owners decided it was no longer financially viable to run.
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MAMA-acquired East Village Arts Club opens
Culture Secretary Maria Miller has told executives in the arts that they must “hammer home the value of culture to our economy”. The call comes two months ahead of the Government’s spending review, which will detail the departments that need to reduce their spending and by how much
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Arts execs must ‘hammer home economic value of culture,’ says Maria Miller
Organisers of The Great Escape 2013 have announced a further 100 artists that now complete its line up of over 350 bands.
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The Great Escape 2013 completes festival line-up
PRS for Music collected more money from online services than UK radio for the first time last year, marking another significant shift in the society’s financial make-up.
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PRS for Music’s digital income in 2012: Full analysis
A petition has been launched to save London venue Earls Court from demolition. The venue – located in Kensington and Chelsea – is known for hosting events such as The BRIT Awards (until they moved to the O2 Arena in 2011), the Olympic Games and concerts from the likes of Pink Floyd
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Save Earls Court: Petition calls for help to rescue venue from closure
Glasgow arena venues SECC and Hydro have appointed John Langford as director, Concerts, Events & Ticketing. In the newly-created role, Langford will be responsible for overseeing and developing the sales activity within the concerts, events and ticketing sector and to position forthcoming new venue The Hydro (and wider SECC campus) alongside the best premier live entertainment venues internationally.
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Hydro and SECC Glasgow appoint new concerts, events and ticketing director
Attitude Is Everything has appointed UK Music’s head of campaigns and communications Dorothy Levine to its board of trustees. Levine has been brought into the charity to raise its profile amongst senior executives within the music business and other decision makers
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UK Music’s Dot Levine joins Attitude Is Everything board
After a near 50 years in the live music business, Barry Dickins has seen it all: from hassling The Who as a 17-year-old agent, to witnessing a young Jim Morrison take full advantage of a Californian strip club. It’s been an eventful five decades. Dickins’ career in the music business is of course, no accident – the Ilford-born Dickins family are music industry stalwarts
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Barry Dickins: ‘I’d hate to become a stale old fart’
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