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McGowan’s Musings:
Well here we are in the year of James
Bond - 007, licensed to – what? Improve,
be happier, clean up the mess in Iraq and
elsewhere, or thrill even?! Let’s see shall
we, but whatever happens Happy New
Year to you all. I’m writing this on a train to
Groningen on my way to Noorderslag/Eurosonic, a fine event of which you will hear
more further on in this Newsletter. Anyway
I thought it was only us Brits that had slow
running overcrowded trains – apparently
not! It could be the weather though, on the
flight into Amsterdam the winds took us
– just after the serving of drinks– the mayhem of spilling and splashing of beverages
was not particularly calmed by the matter
tasteless) BA coffee! I hope she’s managed
to resume her tap dancing career!
Anyway I digress, and here I am on the train
back from Groningen, the sun is shining
and the Dutch countryside is picturesque
and very – flat! Manfred Tari will give you
the full report of this year’s very successful
event, as I was more concerned with the
presentation of two panels. In the first we
continued the adventures of The Hypotheticals, our imaginary (for now!) European band striving for stardom. The roles of
manager, record company, agent, promot-
What’s the betting that with The Rolling
Stones off the road the top grossing box
office figures will feature two, not quite
so old, but definitely vintage names, with
Genesis, and now it appears The Police
back on the road – now just who else can
we think of that may jump – or in some
cases, be helped, onto the reformation
bandwagon? Suggestions on a postcard
please!
Allan McGowan
er and financial advisor were humorously
and more than impressively acted out
by Frank Ströbele, Marcel Albers, Tobbe
Lorentz, Christophe (Doudou) Davy and
Dick Molenaar. There is now much interest
in the career of The Hypotheticals and who
knows what successes await them in 2007!
Laughter was also a mainstay of the second session, ‘Off the Record with a Smile’,
this was more of a chat show, and I had the
privilege of asking Tapio Korjus, Claudio
Trotta and Dan de Vita to present on the
road anecdotes from their long careers.
An hour was not enough for both those on
stage and off, hilarious, sometimes scary
and often dangerous stories flowed, and
the session could well have run on and on
– still there’s always next year!
Since the last Newsletter, we have lost another legend with the unexpected death
of James Brown; I think it’ll be a long time
till we see a live performer quite like him
again, RIP.
On Sunday the VIP team will be seeking
some blue sky in Cannes, South of France
for the longest established international
music trade market MIDEM. The event will
be focussing much more on the live business than ever before and VIP News will be
directly involved as media partners for the
event. We will report on the goings on in
the next issue.
So, Ladies and Gentlemen, have a great
year, and for the first time in 2007 – here
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End of Year Figures
Allan McGowan [email protected]
This is of course the time of year when we
consider the state of the business as reflected in whatever figures are available from
the previous year. In Europe we’re not too
good on compiling statistics from the live
industry, and perhaps this is something that
we should concern ourselves with this year.
However it is worth paying attention to the
following from the US and the UK, although
these concern themselves with the recording industry they do of course have a bearing and influence on the live industry.
2006:
U.S. album sales continued to decrease, and
were down nearly 5 percent from
the previous year, but due to a huge increase
in digital downloads, total music sales increased According to year-end sales figures
released by Nielsen SoundScan, 588.2
million albums were sold in 2006 - a 4.9
percent decline from 2005. Digital sales
were up 65 percent over the previous year,
with582 million tracks sold, and digital album sales more than doubled, with nearly
33 million sold last year.
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New music had a great year in the UK, according to a BPI press release; with fourteen
UK debut albums reaching the Top 100 and
home-grown acts claiming a 61.9% share
of best-selling albums, the best performance since 1997.The biggest-selling album
of 2006 was Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open, which
sold more than 1.5m copies. Another four
UK acts sold over 1m copies of their albums
- Take That, Arctic Monkeys, Kooks and Razorlight - and seven of theTop 10 albums of
the year were by British acts. New acts coming through included singer-songwriters
such as Paolo Nutini and James Morrison,
rock acts Arctic Monkeys and The Fratellis
and soul from Corinne Bailey Rae.
The Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say
I Am, That’s What I’m Not holds the record
for the fastest selling debut album of all
time, with 363,812 sales in the first seven
days of its release. It went on to be the best
selling debut of the year. The Kooks’ and hit
singles Naive and She Moves In Her Own
Way backed up by extensive touring helped
their album Inside In/Inside Out into second
place on the debut chart.
The beginnings of the digital albums market saw 2.2m units sold between April and
December 2006; digital sales now comprise
1.4% of the overall album market.
Two UK-signed acts featured in the American year end Top 10 singles chart; James
Blunt’s ‘You’re Beautiful’ at number four
and Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten was
at number six. Blunt appeared in the album
charts also, where he joined fellow new UK
acts KT Tunstall and Corinne Bailey Rae with
debut platinum album success.
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2007: One Band Makes History!
This year has not kicked off too well
though. EMI have sacked their top management and are desperately trying to
regroup in the face of declining returns,
HMV has reported losses and sacked its
MD and Music Zone has gone into administration. Sales for December ’06 into
January ’07, normally a peak sales period
were not good in the UK and there is speculation that the decline of the CD will give
retail more problems over the year.
the Mean Fiddler in London last summer.
Singer and bassist Joe Murphy told the
BBC News website it was all down to their
manager and “awesome” fans.” Without
them we would not have done it,” he said.”
Just four days ago nobody had heard of us,
now it seems like everyone has. I can’t get
my head around it.” The band has since
been contacted by a number of big record
labels, so look out for the name this year!
But the year could not have started off any
better for one as yet unsigned band, who
have been together for seven years in various forms, Koopa, from Colchester in the
UK have made chart history by becoming
the first unsigned band to land a UK top 40
hit. A change to Chart rules was instigated
at the start of the and digital single sales
now count towards a chart position even
if there is no CD version, as a result their
download-only single Blag, Steal & Borrow
debuted at number 31.
Koopa have built up a fanbase on the internet and, I’m glad to see, on the live circuit.
having played almost 500 gigs in the past
three years, including a headline show at
Koopa
Guitar Sales Boom in the UK
Allan McGowan [email protected]
According to figures released by the Music Industries Association, the era of the DJ
in Britain at least may be coming to a close
if the continuing boom in guitar sales
is anything to judge by. Sales to young
people, and it seems their parents who
are having another attempt at the instrument of the guitar heroes of their youth,
are booming.
to £150. The guitar is now the most popular instrument to learn in school, inspired
by a wave of guitar bands such as Arctic
Monkeys and The Kooks.
Nearly a million guitars were sold in 2006,
470,000 electric and bass guitars and
520,000 acoustic instruments. This is twice
the number sold in 1999 and the value of
guitar sales is now put at £110 million.
A drop in price of 25 per cent over the past
two years has encouraged sales by lowering the average cost of an electric guitar
Guitar sales boom
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WOMEX Director Steps Down
Allan McGowan [email protected]
The 2007 edition of WOMEX will take
place from 24-28 Oct 07 in Seville, Spain,
but this year there will be a different pair
of hands directing the team responsible
for this leading worldwide music expo
and global market event, which covers
world music, folk, roots, traditional and
future sounds.
Having taken over from founding Director Ben Mandelson in 1997, Christoph
Borkowsky Akbar is stepping down as
day-to-day director of WOMEX. Gerald
Seligman will assume the new role of
WOMEX General Director. While he will
still maintain close contact with the team
in an advisory role, Christoph felt that it
was time to devote more attention to his
other activities.
Christoph told VIP News, “When I became
WOMEX director in 1997 I committed myself for 7 years. It became 3 years more
because we were waiting for the right successor to take over. Now I will have hopefully more of the time i need for my 2 other
companies, Piranha Records and Piranha
Events, my family and some new adventures too. Particularly Piranha Events looks
very challenging with more events outside
of Berlin in the pipeline, organising and
programming in connection with the German leadership in the European union,
the Olympic games in Peking and the next
soccer world championship in South Africa
are very promising aims indeed.”
This year the WOMEX offspring project
PORTO MUSICAL will take place from
Christoph Borkowsky
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Brazil, and will be joining forces with the
Brazilian Ministry of Culture under Gilberto Gil. Hugely expanded, this one-off
partnership will be held under the name
Feira Música Brasil. Extended projects like
this and others have meant that the overall
conditions for WOMEX have become much
more complex . Christoph continues, “Each
football team needs a new coach from time
to time, WOMEX as well. I’m most happy that
Gerald is taking over. He’s got the right skills,
experience -- and respect in the community
that the job requires. But I think he is in for a
much harder ride than I had a decade ago.
Both the whole operation itself as well as the
surrounding field for WOMEX are more challenging now.”
Gerald Seligman came to WOMEX in January 2006 after over 20 years in the music
business. He began his career as a journalist and radio programmer based in New
York, before turning to freelance production. After moving to Brazil in 1990, he
worked first for Polygram (now Universal),
then EMI, which soon moved him to London to take over international direction
of its 43-country strategic marketing division. While there he created Hemisphere,
the well-respected world music label that
saw over 2 million sales during his tenure.
As a Grammy-nominated producer and
compiler, he has delivered over 120 CDs
and is a frequent international conference
speaker and consultant.
Gerald says, “A new director brings new
ideas, of course, but he should always tread
carefully,” he says. WOMEX grew from 250
to 2,500 delegates in only a dozen years.
It’s remarkable how much foresight Christoph and Ben had when they developed
the overall WOMEX philosophy and structure, amazing how durable it was. But
a new Director will inevitably have new
ideas about how an event and company
can adapt to a changing marketplace. And
the challenges that come with adapting to
WOMEX’s growth mean special effort has
to be expended to stay true to the event’s
original aims. “There is always room for
some evolution.
As part of a general restructuring, WOMEX
announces other additions and changes.
Evelyn Bardow is now Director of Production & Special Projects and will be working
with Gerald on WOMEX Offspring projects.
To complete the team, Christine Semba,
WOMEX’s tireless Director of Content &
Programmes, will be joined by Alex Walter as Content & Programmes Manager,
Software Engineer Alexander VIPach now
works fulltime with WOMEX IT Director
Stephan Siedler, and Anna Pötzsch, Media & Communications Manager, will be
taking a maternity leave in Feburary with
Nisha Anders replacing her temporarily for
the months to come.
Two new stages at Roskilde ‘07
Allan McGowan [email protected]
Astoria and Cosmopol. These are the
names of two brand-new stages at Roskilde Festival 2007. They share the idea of
housing musical fusions in special stage
designs. At the same time the festival
waves goodbye to the stages Ballroom
and Metropol after many years of faithful
service
Each year Roskilde Festival makes big and
small adjustments on the music stages.
Last year the big sound tower in front of
the Orange Stage was removed, and this
year it is time to freshen up the contents
and designs on two of the festival’s other
stages.
tributed to changing the audience’s view
on world music. But now the time has
come for trying new things.
Roskilde Astoria has room for new forms of
expression and display – both in the range
of music and in the design of the stage tent.
‘Delicate’ and intimate acts play in the daytime, while the late hours present a club
stage with energetic parties in the closed
tent. Roskilde Astoria makes room for intimacy between artists and the audience.
Naturally, this does not mean goodbye to
world music – it can still be heard as rich
and surprising as it comes on all the festival’s stages.
Intimacy in Roskilde Astoria
After 10 successful years, the festival says
goodbye to Roskilde Ballroom. Since 1997
the stage has offered some of the biggest
surprises at Roskilde Festival and has con-
Roskilde Cosmopol – music from the big
city and the underground
Electronic music has fused with other
forms of expression. Therefore, the festival
is looking forward to presenting Roskilde
Cosmopol, a new hot spot for the underground urban genres. Here the audience
can hear hip hop, dancehall, grime, R&B,
urban world music, neo soul and music
from the more organic electronic scene.
It all takes place in a new stage design with
room for bands, DJs, breakdance and rap
battles, visuals and much more. Of course,
the decoration has to match the music, so
expect a cosmopolitical urban environment with inspiration from the pulsating
beat of the big city. Roskilde Cosmopol has
capacity for 6,000 people so there will also
be plenty of space for dancing in the tent.
Roskilde Festival
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Glastonbury Again Attempts to Beat the Touts
Allan McGowan [email protected]
In a further bid to defeat the ticket touts
who target the Festival every year, tickets
for this year’s Glastonbury festival will feature a photo of the buyer. Tickets will be
non-exchangeable and if ticket holders do
not match the picture they will be
will be denied entry to the event..
Those wanting to attend will have to preregister during February to be able to buy
the £150 tickets that go on sale on 1 April.
An extra 25,000 tickets will be available
this year.
Organiser Michael Eavis is determined to
wipe out ticket touts, and according to the
BBC, said, “Hopefully this ploy will be successful - it could really put the ticket touts
out of business. At the last festival, official
tickets were on sale for £125 but there were
instances of them changing hands for up to
£700. This is just not fair for the people who
want to come along and enjoy the music.
Technology has improved so much that we
can now include a picture of the purchaser
on the ticket and if you don’t match the picture at the gate you won’t get in.”
This year’s line up, following last year’s
break to allow the farmlands to recover, is
still a matter of speculation. According to
Music Week magazine, Chumbawamba,
are the first band to be confirmed, and acts
including the Chemical Brothers, Kasabian,
Razorlight, Scissor Sisters and The Who are
all rumoured to have been approached.
News that The Police are to reform to play
dates this year have added the band to the
possibilities.
This year’s event is due to be held from 2224 June at Eavis’ Worthy Farm in Somerset,
subject to licence.
Glastonbury Organiser Michael Eavis
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Surprise
Appearance
at the Zodiac
DF CONCERTS CELEBRATES
ANOTHER GREAT YEAR OF LIVE
MUSIC
Allan McGowan [email protected]
Allan McGowan [email protected]
Patrons at the Zodiac, the 450 capacity club recently acquired by
the Academy Group in the UK University town of Oxford were surprised with an unexpected New
Year gift on Sunday 7th January.
DF Concerts, one of Europe’s leading concert promoters, is gearing up for a phenomenal year in 2007 with the addition of
a brand new festival to its already successful calendar of events.
When the evening’s attraction Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 returned to the stage for an encore
they were accompanied by REM
vocalist Michael Stipe and bassist Mike Mills and performed two
tracks, one being the 1997 classic
‘Electrolite’ and a brand new, as
yet, unreleased track.
Robyn Hitchcock has been a key
influence in England’s alternative
pop for some 30 years now, both
solo and with the Soft Boys. The
Venus 3 is his new group and features REM and Minus 5 members
Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey &
Bill Rieflin.
Michael Stipe and Robyn Hitchcock
at the Zodiac
Early bird tickets for 2007’s Connect festival, went on sale on Saturday (16th December) as a special early Christmas present
for music fans. Connect will take place in
the grounds of the stunning Inveraray Castle in Argyll, from Friday 31st August until
Sunday 2nd September. The three day
event will be full to bursting with an eclectic mix of bands, artists, DJ’s, performers,
cabaret, visual artists and installations.
2006 has been DF Concerts’ busiest year
to date with 776 shows by artists including
Morrissey, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, Hot
Chip, Guillemots, Paolo Nutini, Muse, Kasabian, The Fratellis, The Killers, The Kooks,
My Chemical Romance, Snow Patrol and
Razorlight taking place over 62 venues.
Due to demand from fans, Take That, The
Zutons, McFly, Robbie Williams, Paolo
Nutini and The Magic Numbers all performed multiple shows and the number of
gigs promoted by the company between
2000 and 2006 rose by 48%. Over the
space of one week (w/b 16th November)
DF Concerts put on six sold out shows in a
row at The Glasgow Barrowland, promoted seven shows in one night and put ten
new shows on sale on one day.
The company’s own venue, King Tut’s Wah
Wah Hut has hosted over 330 gigs this year
from some of the hottest bands around
including The Dykeenies, Jim Noir, Paulo
Nutini, Wolfmother and Arctic Monkeys.
King Tut’s was also named ‘Best UK Venue’
at the Music Week Awards in March as well
as being included in New York Magazine’s
‘Follow Your Bliss List’ as one of the top 50
places to visit in the world.
October saw T in the Park being crowned
‘Best Major Festival’ at the UK Festival
Awards for a second consecutive year as
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well as being named ‘Music Festival of
the Year’ in the List Magazine end of year
reader’s poll. T in the Park fans showed
their dedication to the festival when they
snapped up over a third of the tickets for
the 2007 event, in under 70 minutes.
On top of the awards and faithful fans, a
study conducted after the 2005 event revealed that the overall impact of T in the
Park to Scotland’s economy was £18 million using a strigent research model developed by EventScotland not yet adopted
by other events.
Taking place during the Edinburgh International Festival in August, T on the Fringe
also enjoyed its most fruitful year to date
with 57 shows (an increase of 380% from
2000), including more outdoor shows
than ever before and the media evaluation for the event being valued at almost
£2 million alone.
Ticket sales for the month totalled 120,000
making it one of the biggest music festivals in the UK and the line up was one of
the most exciting yet with outstanding
performances the likes of Muse, Kasabian,
Belle & Sebastian, Scritti Politti, Regina
Spektor and Snow Patrol.
2007 is shaping up to be another fantastic
year for live music in Scotland with shows
already announced by some of the biggest artists in the world including The Killers, Faithless, Snoop Dogg, P.Diddy and
Il Divo plus a record breaking four shows
in a row from Paolo Nutini at the Glasgow
Academy and over 10,500 tickets sold for
break-through band, The Fratellis.
T in the Park will return to Balado on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July while Connect while make its debut at Inveraray
Castle on Friday 31st August until Sunday
2nd September.
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Mangels Moves On To FKP Scorpio
Manfred Tari [email protected]
Yan Mangels has left Wir Kümmern Uns.
Mangels who founded the agency 7 years
ago previously worked for MZEE-Booking and has been booking since the early
nineties. He has been in Hamburg for 8
years and decided to take on a new post as
a booking agent at FKP Scorpio.
VIP-News: What was the reason for the
change from Wir Kümmern Uns (WKU) to
FKP Scorpio?
FKP Scorpio or not. This depends whether the
name could be integrated. Otherwise I will
hold on to it.
VIP-News: What will happen to the WKU
personnel?
Mangels: My assistant Steffi Jaspers will go
with me. The rest I will unfortunately have to
dismiss because there are no jobs for them at
FKP Scorpio.
Yan Mangels
Yan Mangels: This isn’t so much of a change
after all. I will take most of my acts from WKU
and continue to work with them at FKP Scorpio, but this will be supplemented by further
activities. How it came to this is relatively simple: Apart from some fair achievements, especially with Fettes Brot, WKU has stagnated
throughout the last years. I’m sorry to say so,
but this is the case. As a result I was searching
for new prospects. One opportunity resulted
from a conversation I had with Folkert Koopmanns, with whom I had worked very happily
with at a lot of festivals, the result was that in
the future I will work for FKP Scorpio.
VIP-News: How does your agenda look for
2007?
VIP-News: Will you take a lot of acts along
to FKP Scorpio?
VIP-News: Have you noticed differences
between the work in a small firm in comparison to a big company?
Mangels: At the moment I can’t really say
how many acts. But the proposition to
change to FKP was made to most of the artists at WKU. Naturally this is a good opportunity for most of them and as such I should be
representing more of them in the future.
Mangels: I expect 2007 to be come an exciting year, because I am now in a much bigger
company. I’m keen to see how fast I can transcribe my way of working to the new company and what will fit in or what will change. It
is all about reorientation and of course some
new activities will supplement the old ones.
I hope that I can prove myself quickly at FKP
Scorpio following on from what I have done
over the years and that some of this will work
well in the new position..
VIP-News: What will happen to WKU?
Mangels: In my first days at FKP Scorpio I
had to familiarise myself with the software
and the company details and so on, so as I’ve
only been working here for two weeks this
has been taking up the time. But what I am
able to say is that this is definitely another
dimension of doing business.
Mangels: It is not fully clear whether I will use
the name for this specific booking section at
VIP-News: When will you have your first
FKP Scorpio tours taking place?
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Mangels: The tours that were already
booked in the last year will certainly proceed.
We had a Jahcoustix tour start last week,
Dendemann this week and in February Epo555 will start their tour. Beside this we have
some single events, too. The aspiration is
that all will continue without big breaks.
VIP-News: What was the trigger for your
decision?
Mangels: WKU was a small firm in which
you depended on searching for the acts on
your own in a very early stage of their career.
You have to build the artists up on your own,
too, because established acts more often
work together with big agencies. Moreover
the time you need to establish a new act has
expanded in the last years. Of course there
are some exceptions that have been successful right from the beginning, but otherwise
you have to undertake huge efforts. I have
put in these efforts but there came a point
when I had to realise that it couldn’t go on
this way. I came to a crossroad: Do I want to
keep on keeping on by myself or do I want to
try something new? FKP Scorpio offered such
a chance.
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Noorderslag/Eurosonic In Figures
Manfred Tari [email protected]
Let the numbers speak for themselves
Visitors: 15050
Nationalities: 36
Professionals: 2400
Acts: 240
Radio stations: 28
ETEP festivals: 53
Stages EuroSonic: 27
Stages Noorderslag: 9
The Players at Noorderslag/Eurosonic 2007
There were 2400 professionals at Noorderslag/Eurosonic, but we were of course only
able to talk to a handful of them. So the
following are some representatives quotes
that give an overall impression for this incomparable business event:
Claudio Trotta - Barley Arts
Steve Strange - X Ray Touring
Claudio Trotta
Steve Strange
VIP-News: What is your opinion of
Noorderslag?
Steve Strange: I think it is great. I was here
four years ago and it has grown so much
since then. I really like it. Good topics, good
bands, nice venues and a great city.
VIP-News: Any favourite bands already
discovered yet?
Strange: I saw Oh No Ono from Denmark
last night and I think they were really good. I
really loved them.
VIP-News: Are you happy that there are
not so many English booking agencies
around?
Strange: This doesn’t affect me really. I’m
not here on a competition trip. It is just a
model to get my business done. It is good
to close some festivals quite early on before ILMC, before they are all gone. Getting
ahead of the game, that´s what I call it.
VIP-News: First impression
Noorderslag Weekend 2007?
about
Claudio Trotta: It is fantastic as always. First
of all I love this little town of Groningen, very
nice, always bicycles around and the people. You know living in a town like Milan
you have to be scared of the car riders here
you have to be scared of the bicycle drivers!
Anyway it is great because I mean there are
a lot of people around from all over Europe,
a lot of good music. Yesterday I saw very
interesting acts like Juli Finlay, Oh No Ono
from Denmark, Shitgo from Glasgow and a
French act, I can’t remember the name now.
It all seems very well organised. I think it is
worthwhile, yes.
VIP-News: Italy was the guest country of
Noorderslag this year. Are you satisfied
with the choice of the acts that appeared
here?
Trotta: Mauro Valenti is a good friend of
mine. Having said this I would say that if
I was involved I would maybe add some
different styles or some different act. As a
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matter of fact, they did a great job anyway.
Malenko is a very good band; Sud Sound
System is a very good band. Some of the Italian bands that are here I have to say I don’t
know, but in general terms it is great that
there is a focus on Italy. It is not easy because
when Italian music is too typical, too close to
the Italian roots, maybe it is not easy to cross
the border. If Italian music is copying an Anglo-American style then, as a matter of fact,
probably the Anglo-American bands do it
better than all the others. But I think some
Italian acts are really interesting because
they mix the genres. I think in general what
is interesting to me, is that it doesn’t make
any difference whether it is Italian, Spanish, American or whatever, trying to cross
over with the music, going outside of the
proper roots. It is not easy for Italian music
to go outside of Italy. There are so many very
interesting European bands that I have to
say that they are probably better than ours,
than the Italian acts. But some Italian acts
are very good, even outside of Italy. Maybe
we will see some new alternative Italian
acts.
VIP-News: In most European countries, including Italy domestic talents have really
gained market share over the last couple
of years. Do you think that there is a better awareness for European acts since
Noorderslag has been following a very
European approach towards the support
of talent?
Trotta: First of all I may have to correct what
you said. In Italy the domestic music was
stronger than in the rest of Europe, especially in northern Europe. Ten, fifteen years
ago, we always had a strong Italian domestic scene, like it was in Spain, in Germany, in
France. The rest of Europe started in the last
four or five years. Yes I think there is space for
European Music outside every single country and as a matter of fact new technology
and also new possibilities like MySpace or
YouTube and this type of conference is help-
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ing to spread the music. The only concern is
that if this LiveNation monopoly in so many
countries will reduce the chances for domestic acts. I think that most, if not all, multi
national companies are the same; it makes
no difference if they sell bubblegum or live
music or records, they want to sell the same
products all over the world. One of my concerns for the future years is that I hope that
the independent scene will get stronger and
stronger in live and in media and the record
business. Because we need independent
sources and we need local resources to live
in a global world and to succeed in a global
world.
Guisi Nibbi – FAWI
Fondazione Arezzo Wave Italia (FAWI) with
others were responsible for putting Italy
on the Eurosonic/Nooderslag Agenda.
VIP-News spoke with Giusi Nibbi who was
involved in the organisation of delivering
acts, arts and artists to Groningen.
VIP-News: What is your opinion about
Noorderslag 2007 from an Italian point
of view?
Giusi Nibbi: Yes, it was a great year because
for the first time 19 Bands were presented in
the heart of Europe and it is a great festival.
I think we had the opportunity of showing
the diversity and the many genres of Italian
music from electronic to folk to pop to rock
music. The attendance of these acts was a
really good thing. And also thanks to the
European Talent Exchange Program (ETEP),
we had some positive feedbacks for these
bands. FAWI Foundation of Italy, which is
the Italian export office, intends to organize a big festival, also we had the occasion
to see very good bands. We have heard that
these kinds of European festivals will grow
and grow and will have much more impact
in the music industry and we think as festivals, that we work the hardest
which we thank a lot, was the first step to
have further investment for the exportation
and importation of European music.
VIP-News: Who funded you in this case?
Nibbi: Actually apart from our usual local
public investors and some private banks
that give funding to the foundation, there
weren’t specific other partners, except for
the two I mentioned before. Some of the
agencies that back the artists that came
here invested money and we did the coordination altogether, to bring money together,
to do the compilation, to do the flyers, to do
all the publicity and advertisement, which I
hope will bring some good feedback.
VIP-News: Did you have to raise a huge
investment?
VIP-News: Noorderslag is very much focused on the live music side. Did you have
any support from the record labels?
Nibbi: I mean the most important investment was the hard work everybody had to
do in order to have these yet unknown bands
in Europe, to have them here. I think that the
involvement from Italian institutions like the
embassy or the Italian institute of culture,
Nibbi: No, there was just a little support for
our compilation from MEI (Meeting delle
eticheti Indipendenti), but other record
companies or other organisation didn’t really support us. In Italy what we are doing
as a foundation is that we are working a lot
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on gathering all the different association of
category in the music field in order to have
a common regulation from the government
that can support many activities. But it is
also about bringing together the various organisations to support Italian music. It is not
a real thing yet, unfortunately.
VIP-News: And your final comment is?
Nibbi: I would like to than Buma Cultuur, of
course, and I would like also to say that Italy
I think is a great market. We hope that you
gotsome clue about what happens in the
Italian scene. Thanks to the Italian Foundations, Public Radio RAI Uno of course and
the many talented journalists of top magazines and TV channels, magazines like radio
publica. I think this is another very important aspect of this event. I think it will bring
further knowledge of the European scene
of Noorderslag Seminar and it will give the
Italians the chance to explore further what
we are doing with these European programs
and with Eurosonic.
VIP-News: To which conventions you are
going next?
Nibbi: We certainly do Midem and South
By South-West. There will be a focus on two
Italian bands, maybe an Italian talents show
at SXSW.
Peter Smidt –
Creative Director Noorderslag
introduced the separate entrances for audience and professionals. I think we have to
improve it again, but I think we made a start
and there was better circulation for professionals than last year. I still think we can improve it more next year. Amongst the panels
there were a lot of live music professionals at
the session with Dick Molenaar and Harald
Grams regarding the fact that Holland has
stopped the artist tax,. I have never seen a
panel that busy. I think this is an example
that should be followed by Germany and
other countries. And I think everyone is now
aware that they should put their pressure on
tax ministers to do this as Holland did.
VIP-News: Are you already able to foresee
which acts are going to be hot?
VIP-News: Could it be the case that you
have to give the lobbyists in the other
European countries some lessons? Could
they learn something from the Netherlands? Were there any meetings going on
with politicians this year?
VIP-News: The financial backing by the European Commission for ETEP in 2007 isn’t
confirmed yet?
Peter Smidt: Yes, there was one debate
about pop and politics at the seminar on
a Dutch level and there were several informal meetings. At this specific moment we
weren’t aware of a lot of common problems
that we should address right now. So it was
on the national level.
VIP-News: Do you have anything to say
about the future of Noorderslag in 2008?
Peter Smidt: Well, we have the new date
and the basic settings will remain the same.
We are going ahead. We are very happy with
the changes we made regarding the festival
lounge and the network lounge. We also going to evaluate and see how we can continue improving facilities for participants.
Ruud Berends –
Musicxport Netherlands
Peter Smidt
VIP-News: Are you happy with Noorderslag 2007?
Peter Smidt: Yes, Im very happy. We just had
the first selection of acts meeting and the
selections are from 128 shows, which is very
good. I think it’s going to be a very good ETEP
year. I think the program was pretty o.k. We
VIP-News: How did the ETEP selections for
2007 go?
Ruud Berends: Oh, we had a new record.
We just had a first selection meeting. It
was very interesting to see this year that
53 of the 54 ETEP festivals took part in at
the Noorderslag weekend 2007. And the
amount of bands being mentioned at the
first selection meeting is once again promising a new record for 2007.
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Berends: I think The Magic Numbers made
a wise decision to restart their career by performing for all the festivals that are present
at the Noorderslag weekend because their
name was mentioned quite a lot amongst
others.
VIP-News: Other names?
Berends: Goose for example, but I don �t
remember them all. The View, Oh No Ono
those were the ones mentioned most.
Berends: The EU-part is not confirmed yet,
but together with the European music platform members, the European export offices,
Buma Cultuur we managed to have a limited budget for one year to keep the program running on a decent level. And all the
involved festivals understand this situation
and nobody is leaving the program. In fact
on the contrary, I have 25 festivals who have
entered the program. We hope for a positive
decision from the EU somewhere in 2007 for
2008 and onwards.
VIP-News: What is the general mood of the
involved parties such as Europe and the
EBU, are they interested in continuing with
the program? Is it possible that even without
the support of the EU it may still succeed?
Berends: I like to think in many possible scenarios, from the most negative to the most
positive. The most negative one is that we
wouldn’t have enough funding to invest in
paying the festivals. Basically I don’t think
that the bonuses are the deciding factor for
ETEP festivals to say yes or no or to stay or
to leave the program. I think they like the
cooperation of partners and ETEP is a visibility program and I think this is strongest
point and the main reason for everybody to
be involved.
According to latest news, out of 49 ETEP
Bands the following were the first to pick
up bookings for the ETEP festival season
2007: The View (UK/11 bookings), Magic
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Numbers (UK/ 9), Goose (B/8), O No Ono
(DK/ 6) and Peter Bjorn & John (SW/ 6).
Robert Meijerink –
Artistic Director Eurosonic
VIP-News: What are your first summaries
and conclusions?
Robert Meijerink: This was my second year
actually but the first year in full charge. I saw
the ETEP results this afternoon, which was
more or less, I will call it, successful. People
were quite positive or really positive. There
are always a few people who are complaining about the fact that there are too many
UK-bands, that it’s too commercial.. But if
you have 170 acts, there are always a few
weak players you know? It’s not only quality,
you can’t guarantee quality, it’s about music from other regions, from other countries.
Not even all the English bands are good.
Still, it doesn’t matter where it comes from,
Belgium or Czechoslovakia, it´s about the
quality and about the music.
VIP-News: How long does it take you, do
to all the research and the booking itself.
Meijerink: A whole year, seven days a week.
It’s not a nine to five job, I’m always looking
for new acts, fresh acts, talking to people
from New York, booking festivals, running
labels. Even if there is a tour manager and
I see there’s good support during their tour
in Italy and he gives his contact to me, I visit
him. The European market is still growing
really strong. The Scandinavian part is getting stronger and stronger during the last
year, but now there are more countries that
are still growing and growing on a musical
level. Like the Belgian band “Goose”, I saw
“Dead Trombone“ from Portugal yesterday;
I thought it was really amazing. Portugal
has quite a good reputation on the musical
level, but on another level, not on the Pop/
Rock-music level, but from my point of view,
it’s becoming stronger.
VIP-News: Is there anything, you would
like to change on the infrastructure settings for Eursonic/Noorderslag. Will you
keep all the same venues?
Meijerink: No, we are trying to avoid the
student theatre. We’ve been using it for two
years and we’ll use it again, but we are trying to keep it fresh in a way. If you are visiting the event each year, you must have the
feeling that something new is going on. It’s
not good to have the same thing every year,
and of course, it’s also really important, that
the people know the way to the venues, that
they find the venues.
VIP-News: In the “Dag Blad van het
Noordens” I’ve seen a little article this
morning, reporting about the “Voordringer”. It looks like that the people, the true
passionate music lovers who pay en-
trance, are feeling a little bit upset about
the numbers of professionals getting into
town now and getting in to the gigs.
Meijerink: I think we could at least explain
to the people, what kind of event we organise. Of course, they have the point, but it’s
also really, really important, that the people notice the importance of a showcase
festival. People are investing in the event,
there’s radio involved, people from Sweden
or France are coming with their radio and
trucks to Groningen. It’s really important to
let the people know what the event is about,
but it’s always hard to make a difference between the audience and the professionals
relevance. I think it’s good that they write
about it, but it’s more important to make
sure, that everybody knows, what the event
is about.
VIP-News: Which acts have been your favourites and are they the same as those
that appear in the first selection of the
ETEP-members?
Meijerink: Well, not really. A few like Leningrad from Russia are winners. People like
the show and I saw the band live before but
I didn’t know the public reactions. I didn’t
know what to expect, but it was packed
inside and everybody loved the show. So it
always surprising. If an act is playing very
well and convinced the audience, then it’s
the start of a success. Leningrad is a winner, “Goose” from Belgium is a winner, “The
View” from England is a winner. “Oh No
Ono”, I think it’s number two or three; I loved
the band and they’re winners too.
VIP-News: Tell me a little bit about your
history.
Meijerink: I started to work in a U-Centre
when I was 15 years old and I started to organise the festival ‘Those were the days.’
Then I became a student of culture and
psychology. I kept working on with bands: I
was tour manager, light producer, manager,
booker. Then I was organising a festival in
Nijmegen called Valkof Affair. That’s a free
festival with 5000 visitors during mid-July,
I’m still doing that. Then I became a promoter of Doornrosje in Nijmegen, the venue and
I’m still doing that. Last year I was asked to
become the booker of Eurosonic.
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Territory:
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Agent:
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Phone:
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E-mail:
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Homepage: www.entershikari.com
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Period:
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Agency:
Opus GmbH
Agent:
Elke Balzer
Phone:
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E-mail:
[email protected]
Homepage: www.opus-stuttgart.de
Happy Mondays
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Period:
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Agent:
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VIP-Booking’s core product is the Internet’s oldest and largest database for the European Live Entertainment Industry www.vip-booking.com developed as a tool for industry professionals. Since it’s
launch in the year 2000, we have consistently offered our subscribers the very best in database services and now boast subscribers in
over 30 countries.
Today VIP-Booking offers a range of tools for the industry – including VIP-News, VIP-Booking, VIP-Book and VIP-Contract.
Please visit vip-booking.com for further information.
How To Contact Us
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