AEG Europe vice president of sport Gael Caselli says the company’s combined focus on sport and live entertainment means it has played an integral role in the rise of ‘sportainment’. Here, Caselli ...

Legends/ASM Global has signed a five-year naming right deal that will see its new £46 million Becketwell venue named Vaillant Live. The 3,500-capacity venue, which will open on Saturday, 5 April, is ...

Per capita spend on live music hit $281.08 (£213) in the US last year, up 17% from 2023, according to research firm MusicWatch. The company has reported that consumer recorded music spending was up 10 ...

Some 20% of festivals were fully vegetarian or vegan last year, up from 8% in 2023, according to AGF’s (A Greener Future) newly published Annual Festival Sustainability Insights report. Produced from ...

Bill, aka ‘Martyn’s Law’, has today, 3 April, received Royal Assent and has become law. The Home Office has said it expects the implementation phase will last at least two years, during which a ...

Legends/ASM Global has promoted James Harrison to programming VP UK & Europe. Harrison, who has 16 years of experience working across venue operators including LW Theatres, ATG and Live Nation, joined ...

The Irish government has announced it will provide the country’s grassroots venue operators with the opportunity to apply for grants of up to €15,000 towards the cost of programming live music events.

Nordic Wristbands, which recently partnered with industry veterans Graham Brown and Andy Winmill to handle its UK distribution, has added recycled ocean plastic wristbands to its range. The company ...

Studio One has been closed since October. On 27 March, it marked its reopening with a performance by Royal Ballet ...

Festival Republic’s multi-venue Brighton festival The Great Escape (TGE) has announced an additional 175 new acts on this year’s line-up. Due to take place on 14-17 May with more than 700 shows across ...

Oak View Group (OVG) owned Co-op Live (cap. 23,500) arena has announced a partnership with OVO that will see the energy provider’s customers presented with benefits including ticket purchase via the ...

BRITs Week organisers the BPI and AEG Presents have announced that the run of 11 shows raised £650,000 for War Child. The show series, which took place across the UK in February and March, saw all ...