Today’s live sector is where it all happens. Everywhere venues and festivals experience an increasing interest from the audience, as well as bands and artists struggle to please audiences, with increasingly intense and spectacular live shows as results. This four-step seminar bring you presentations of festivals’ aim of sharpen their profile these years, the role that public and private funding plays – and why live music apparently has become so hot, that whole towns now brand themselves as Music Cities.

This seminar will focus on some of the many challenges the European venues are facing and will discuss topics such as public funding – or no funding at all – the “promotion gap” and the “eternal tour bus”.

Meet: Isabelle von Walterskirchen/PETZI, Verband Schweizer, Musikclubs & Festivals (CH), Jakob Brixvold/Dansk Live (DK), Marc Steens/Clubcircuit (BE), Joppe Pihlgren/Livemusik Sverige (SE). Moderator: Andy Inglis/5000 MGMT (UK).

Presented by Live DMA, Dansk Live, Promus & SPO