Touring
Illenium Will Perform the First-Ever Concert at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium
Allegiant Stadium is home to the NFL’s Raiders and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas football team. The stadium is fully enclosed and climate-controlled with a capacity of up to 65,000. Illenium at Allegiant is being produced by AEG Presents, Life Is Beautiful, Another Planet Entertainment and ASM Global. “If there was ever a venue and a city perfectly matched for this one-night-only performance by this incredible artist, it’s Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas,” said AEG Presents svp Bobby Reynolds. “This will be a performance for the ages.” Garth Brooks was originally slated to play the stadium’s first concert on Aug. 22, 2020, but has been forced to postpone twice due to the pandemic. Brooks is now set to perform on July 10&nbs...
Japan’s Top Concert Promoters Form Alliance to Bring Back International Acts
Promoters in Japan are currently in dire straits due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. Ticket sales lost because of cancellations and postponements from the pandemic totaled approximately $333 million (36.3 billion yen) in 2020. Earlier this month, Japan extended a state of emergency until the end of May for Tokyo and three other areas amid a fourth wave of coronavirus cases, which are hitting Tokyo and Osaka particularly hard. Japan, where more than 12,100 people have died from COVID-19, recorded 216 deaths on May 18, the most since early January, according to Johns Hopkins University. The members of the new IPAJ are Avex Entertainment Inc., Creativeman Production Co., Hanshin Contents Link Co. (Billboard Japan), Hayashi International Promotions Ltd., Kyodo Tokyo, Inc., Live Nation Japa...
Inside Track: UMG’s Potential US Investor, FTC Knocks Back Ticketmaster Probe
Asking around, one name keeps popping up: Liberty Media, the majority owner of satellite radio provider SiriusXM — itself owner of music streamer Pandora — and 33% of concert promoter Live Nation. Liberty also owns 5% of terrestrial broadcaster iHeartMedia and tried to buy 40% while iHeartMedia was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And despite concerns a larger stake would result in anticompetitive behavior, the Department of Justice approved Liberty’s request to increase its stake beyond 5% in July 2020. Liberty Media could take a piece of UMG and add intellectual property to a “full stack,” vertically-integrated media company. On paper at least, Universal could woo artists by offering exposure on Liberty-owned broadcasters and with concerts on Live Nation-run tours and festivals. It ...
Danny Wimmer Presents Files Counterclaim Against AEG in Festival Dispute
AEG’s attorneys claim that Wimmer and company chief executive Danny Hares “relied upon deceit and fraud to achieve its goal” to create duplicate events, saying the 2019 Epicenter festival at Rockingham Festival Grounds was a carbon copy of the Carolina Rebellion festival, while Sonic Temple at MAPRE stadium in Columbus was an alleged knock off of Rock on the Range which had taken place at the same facility. Both Epicenter and Sonic Temple lost money in their launch, and if AEG really believes they have ownership in the events, they should help cover the losses, DWP Attorney Johnny White beginning in 2015 that AEG refused to commit to the event more than a year in advance. But LA-based DWP says they launched the competing events after reaching an impasse with AEG...
After Two COVID-19 Cancelations, Bluesfest Plots October Return
It was the second successive year COVID-19 had sunk Bluesfest’s best-laid plans. The most recent was a gut punch for the wider music industry, and the local businesses that rely on footfall that’s triggered by the five days of festivities. That cancelation “really affected the industry and pulled the last strands of confidence out of everything,” notes veteran concert promoter Michael Chugg. Rather than dwell on the negatives, Noble and his team have locked-in a lineup and new dates, Oct. 1-4, for what will be the first major festival to return since the pandemic struck. “We’re rising,” Bluesfest director Peter Noble told Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Breakfast program Wednesday (May 19), immediately after the announcement of Bluesfest’s return. “We have to do that because the Aust...
Motley Crue/Def Leppard Push North American Stadium Tour to 2022
The reworked tour now includes 30 shows, with the date for a slated Glendale, Arizona gig to be announced soon. Check out the revised list of shows below. 6/16 – Atlanta, GA @ Suntrust Park 6/18 – Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium 6/19 – Orlando, FL @ Camping World Stadium 6/22 – Washington, DC @ Nationals Park 6/24 – Queens, NY @ Citi Field 6/25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park 6/28 – Charlotte, NC @ Bank Of America Stadium 6/30 – Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium 7/2 – Jacksonville, FL @ TIAA Bank Field 7/5 – St. Louis, MO @ Busch Stadium 7/8 – Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field 7/10 – Detroit, MI @ Comerica Park 7/12 – Hershey, PA @ Hershey Park Stadium 7/14 – Cleveland, OH @ First Energy Stadium 7/15 – Cincinnati, OH @ Great American Ballpark 7/17 – Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Field 7/19 ...
Event & Arena Marketing Conference Sets Finalists for First Impact Award
Director of marketing for KLOS-FM Wendy Ellis was nominated for the Impact Award for the creation of meal distribution service California Love Drop. Ellis teamed up with Wahoo’s Fish Tacos co-founder Wing Lam and Blue-C co-founder Eric Morley to deliver nearly 20,000 meals at 61 different locations since April 2020. Another Macon Centreplex nominee, Peyton Jeter stood out among the Impact Award submissions for her pivotal role in the creation of the venue’s Racial Reform and Inclusion Committee. The hard work of the Committee became a standard that Spectra Venue Management rolled out to the entire Management portfolio and led Peyton to be a Regional Champion where other venues can use her as a resource to get their venue’s committee up and ...
Tomorrowland Gets New Life From Belgium’s Goal to Reopen by September
That could prove challenging for Tomorrowland, one of the biggest EDM events in the world, which typically draws about 400,000 attendees to Boom, Belgium. The 2019 edition ran six days over two weekends. After canceling last year, the festival scheduled its annual flagship event, normally held in July, to Aug. 27-29 and Sept. 3-5, because of ongoing COVID-19 flareups in Europe. It’s unclear whether the festival would need to adjust its planned dates or capacity to accommodate Belgium’s rules. Nevertheless, organizers sounded a hopeful note on Tuesday. “We are delighted and grateful to hear that the Belgian Government has given a realistic perspective for large festivals in Belgium towards the end of the summer,” Tomorrowland said in a statement. “We want to study the guidelines and paramet...
Louis Tomlinson Sets 2022 World Tour Dates
The English singer’s jaunt will take him across North America, then head to east for a European leg starting March 23 at Valsheimilio in Reykjavik, Iceland, and wrapping April 23 with a homecoming date at Doncaster Dome. Australasian dates are booked from July 20 at Brisbane’s Fortitude Hall. Fresh tour dates for South America and Asia have yet to be announced. Tomlinson’s first solo world tour was set to run through 2020, in support of his debut solo album Walls. That trek, like so many others, was scuppered by the health crisis. As a member of 1D, which called it a day in 2015, Tomlinson had a hand in over 100 million record sales. Streams of his solo music have blasted past one billion, and Louis isn’t looking back. “I feel like a new artist now,” he says. “It’s taken a while for m...
Old Dominion Singer Matthew Ramsey Hospitalized Ahead of Tour
Old Dominion’s publicist tells Billboard that the band will not postpone any concert dates. The band previously had to postpone three concerts in February 2019 because of the frontman’s leg surgery to deal will an old injury. Old Dominion announced earlier this month that they are scheduled to embark on their 2021 tour, dubbed An Evening With Old Dominion: The Band Behind the Curtain Tour, starting with a two-night run at Choctaw Casino & Resort in Durant, Okla., from May 27-28. Pre-sale starts Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET here, while tickets for the general public will be on sale starting Friday. Learn more about the tour on Old Dominion’s website. See Old Dominion’s upcoming tour dates below. An Evening With Old Dominion: The Band Behind The Curtain tour da...
Dan + Shay Reschedule Arena Headlining Tour, Add New Dates
Openers are three-time Grammy nominee Ingrid Andress and The Band Camino. All previously purchased tickets for the AEG Presents outing will be honored for the rescheduled dates. When it originally kicked off in 2020, the tour marked Dan + Shay’s first headlining arena tour, and included two sold-out shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena before shutting down because of the pandemic. Dan + Shay are up for top duo/group and top country duo/group at the May 23 Billboard Music Awards. Dan + Shay The (Arena) Tour 2021*newly announced dateSept. 9 – Greenville, SC – Bon Secours Wellness ArenaSept. 10 – Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones ArenaSept. 11 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun ArenaSept. 14 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo CenterSept. 16 R...
Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Payments Will Start Arriving Next Week
The amount of funding for the second and third tiers, along with any supplemental funding, will be based on what remains after the SBA awards grants to the first priority group. “This emergency relief can’t come soon enough for those on the precipice of going under. We’ll be very grateful when the money is distributed as Congress intended,” says National Independent Venue Association board member Audrey Fix Schaefer. “It’s been very hard to hold on, but even tougher to plan for reopening without the money to hire back staff, rent venues and secure acts with deposits. It will be incredible when the $16 billion Congress earmarked to save our stages becomes a reality.” As of today, 11,500 SVOG applications have been sub...
