4 MusicWeek 28.06.13 NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF
THE O2 ARENA: The O2 Arena London has reported a record £63 million in revenue and two million tickets to venue events sold in the last calendar year. The positive financial figures for the Greenwich-based venue - now the world's most popular arena - are set to benefit tax payers as the state owns a 15% stake in net profits. In FY 2012/13 that equated to £15.5 million - up 35% for the year ending last December. SECRETLY: A new ‘supergroup’ of North American independent labels has been announced, as Numero, Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian combine under the banner of Secretly Label Group. Ben Swanson, Chris Swanson and Darius Van Arman, all partners in the Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian labels, are joining Numero Group as partners. DYBALL: Warner/Chappell’s legal and business affairs international SVP Jane Dyball is leaving the publisher after more than two decades. Dyball will exit at the end of this month having joined the company in the role of legal and business affairs manager in 1992. MPA: Music Publishers Association chairman Chris Butler has revealed he is expecting to announce a successor to exiting chief executive Stephen Navin in the next fortnight. Navin effectively signed off as chief executive at the organisation’s AGM in London today (Tuesday) ahead of going to Oxford University this October to read history. AMAZONMP3: Amazon has managed to dodge Apple’s in-app purchase tax by making its MP3 Store available to iPhone users via open web browser Safari. By optimising the site for Safari on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon customers with Apple mobile devices can browse and purchase any of the 22 million-plus songs in the company’s online web store. iTUNES RADIO: The boss of Merlin has confirmed that the organisation is not involved in negotiations with Apple for the licensing of its iTunes Radio platform. Merlin CEO Charles Caldas told
Evolver.fm: "The licensing of the iTunes Music Store pre-dated the formation of Merlin by some years and therefore our members all had existing deals with Apple.”
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Annie Lennox to collect MITS Award in November this year
EVENTS BY TIM INGHAM
A
nnie Lennox is to be honoured with the 22nd Music Industry Trusts
Award (MITS). The prestigious gong will be
presented to Lennox in recognition of her outstanding contribution to British music and her tireless charity work. The Award will be presented on Monday, November 4 at a gala dinner in aid of Nordoff Robbins and the BRIT Trust. David Munns OBE, chairman of the MITS Award committee, said: “This is very much an award from the wider British music business to honour Annie Lennox’s unique contributions to our industry. Every year - and this is our 22nd year - the British music industry comes together to honour and salute one person’s special contribution. This year the MITS Award is being presented to Annie in recognition of her universally acclaimed status as artist, songwriter, HIV/Aids Activist and social activist who
Made Of This) in 1983 to become the musical phenomenon we know today. Eurythmics went on to sell
indefatigably supports and raises awareness for HIV charities in Africa, and champions humanitarian causes. One of Britain’s most successful songwriters, the recipient of eight BRIT Awards, four Ivor Awards and four Grammys and the most successful female British/Scottish artist in UK music history with over 80 million records sold worldwide: Annie Lennox we salute and celebrate you.” Lennox’s career began in 1971
when, at the age of 17, she left her native Scotland to take up a
place at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After a chance encounter with Dave Stewart in the early seventies, the pair went on to form The Tourists, who ultimately achieved significant success in the UK, Europe and Australia. It was not until the break-up of the band in 1979 however, that they formed duo Eurythmics. They released their first
album, In the Garden in 1981, but had to wait until the worldwide success of their second album, Sweet Dreams (Are
over 75 million albums, and achieved over 20 hits across the world. In 1990, Lennox released her debut solo album, entitled Diva. Entering the charts at No.1 in the UK, Diva sold around six million copies worldwide (including 2.5 million in the US). Diva included the Top 10 singles Why, Walking On Broken Glass and Little Bird. Lennox said: “I'm incredibly touched and honoured to be considered as a recipient of the 22nd Music Industry Trusts Award. Music has given me a lifetime of experiences and opportunities that I never would have dreamed possible, and I feel very privileged to have become an artist and communicator, especially as a woman." The Music Industry Trusts
Award, now in its 22nd year, has raised over £4.3m for Nordoff
Robbins and the BRIT Trust. Tickets are available from:
mitsadmin@nrfr.co.uk. Telephone: 020 7428 9908
AIF turns 5: Indie fests contributed £213m to the British economy in 2012
The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) is celebrating its fifth birthday by unveiling new consumer research that shows its 44 member festivals contributed over £213m to the UK economy in 2012. This average spend is a drop per capita from the last two years (2011 was £461.58), but 69% of consumers felt the recession affected their spending on general entertainment in 2012, as opposed to the 72% surveyed in 2011. The total AIF audience
capacity reached 557,000 in 2012, with an average festival spend at £382.49 per person. 54% of those surveyed were female and 46% were male.
AIF is continuing its
partnership with BBC Introducing. The collaboration has now gone national; giving the UK's top emerging acts an opportunity to perform at some of the UK’s largest and most diverse festivals. Currently 16 performances at leading independent festivals over the summer have been generated from the partnership - see the full scheduled below. There was a big independent
festival casualty this week as the Isle Of Man Festival was cancelled due to poor ticket sales. Primal Scream and Paloma Faith were due to play at the event next month.
BBC INTRODUCING / AIF 2013 BOOKINGS FESTIVAL
ACT 1 BESTIVAL
2 CAMP BESTIVAL 3 BROWNSTOCK
4 STOCKTON WEEKENDER 5 6
LARMER TREE Y-NOT FESTIVAL
7 KENDAL CALLING 8 TRUCK
9 WAKESTOCK 10 NOZSTOCK: THE HIDDEN VALLEY
Ady Sulieman Ady Sulieman Arthur Walwin Collectors Club Cymbals Dexters Dexters
Dingus Khan Esco Williams George Ezra
11 BELLADRUM: TARTAN HEART FESTIVAL Gingus Khan 12 SECRET GARDEN PARTY 13 SWN FESTIVAL 14 TRAMLINES 15 SWN FESTIVAL 16 LEEFEST
Indiana
Masters in France Masters in France Story Books Story Books
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Sunday 1st September Sunday 28th July Thursday 18th July Friday 2nd August TBC
Friday 19th July Sunday 14th July Saturday 27th July Friday 2nd August Saturday 27th July
Saturday 19th October Saturday 20th July
Saturday 19th October Friday 12th July
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