Tag: Live Nation
Live Nation’s Hyde Park Festivals are a huge success
Live Nation’s annual series of Hyde Park festivals and concerts were a huge success this year, with a record nine gigs in thirteen days from 22 June – 3 July. The concerts included two Kings of Leon nights, Hard Rock Calling festival, with headliners including The Killers, Bon Jovi and Rod Stewart, an Arcade Fire [...]
Arena Seating support Hyde Park concerts
Arena Seating returned to Hyde Park after a two year absence, providing a temporary spectator grandstand for the Hard Rock Calling and Wireless Festivals during June and July, 2011. Welcoming half a million people over nine days of music, which included headliners Pulp, Bon Jovi, Kings of Leon and Rod Stewart, Arena Seating worked closely [...]
Steward 836 Strikes a Chord at Download
Showsec has managed the safety of the Download audience for over a decade, and we like to think we’re prepared for every eventuality . . . but we didn’t see this one coming! The online social media legend that is security professional 836 rose to instant stardom and is already receiving national press coverage. 836 [...]
Live Nation partner with Groupon to launch discount ticket site
GrouponLive, expected to launch in June, is aimed at easing both the perennial problem of filling empty seats at concerts and sporting events. Hoping to boost concert attendance in a hobbled economy, Ticketmaster parent Live Nation Entertainment Inc., is joining with the popular online deals site Groupon to launch a discount ticket site for live [...]
Showsec help to make rock history at Download 2010
Showsec successfully implemented a comprehensive security and crowd management operation at the largest ever Download this June, where 95,000 rock fans gathered for the festival’s historic 30th year. Showsec Operations Director Simon Battersby was appointed as the festival’s Head of Security, prior to seven months strategic planning that led into coordinating 1300 security professionals and [...]
TicketDisaster.org Coalition Statement on Competition Commission Approval of Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger
In response to the approval of the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger by British regulators, the public interest and live event industry members of the TicketDisaster.org coalition today urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to consider the profound differences between Ticketmaster’s and Live Nation’s dominance of the U.S. live event market and their market position in [...]
Live Nation Outlines ‘Legal Flaws’ On U.K. Merger Ruling
Live Nation has submitted a document detailing what it describes as “key legal flaws” in the provisional Competition Commission (CC) ruling that the proposed Live Nation and Ticketmaster merger will hinder competition in the market for live music ticket retailing. The CC issued its provisional ruling on Oct. 8. It has now published various submissions [...]
SHOWSEC COOL IN HYDE PARK HEAT
Showsec played a pivotal role in maintaining a relaxed summer festival vibe in Hyde Park this summer, as audiences, artists and productions enjoyed great music in sweltering weather over ten show-days. Three days of Hard Rock Calling were headlined by Neil Young, The Killers and Bruce Springsteen, with some smaller shows on stage two preceding [...]
Festivals bowing to fan pressure
The organisers of the Download and Wireless music festivals say they are giving fans more say in how the events are being run. Live Nation is to introduce a range of new measures at this year’s Download, set for Donington Park on 12-14 June, after feedback from online forums. They include cutting the distance between [...]
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