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By: Gideon Gottfried LIVE.The UK's first industry-overarching federation.Some of the UK's most experienced live entertainment professionals have formed the UK's first dedicated live music body to face "unprecedented challenges from COVID-19, Brexit and beyond." LIVE, which stands for Live Music Industry, Venue And Entertainment, aims to be "the voice of the UK’s live music ecosystem including artists, managers, venues, festivals, promoters, agents, production and ticketing," according to the announcement. Membership is made up of the 13 principal ...

Jan. 12, 2021 4:55 pm ET After a week of unsuccessful attempts to book an appointment for a Covid-19 vaccine, Katie Solovey’s parents turned to her for help. The 34-year-old’s parents spend their winters in Siesta Key, Fla., part of Sarasota County, which is using Eventbrite Inc.’s ticketing platform to schedule vaccine appointments. The platform is familiar to Ms. Solovey, but not to some older people including her parents, who are in their 70s, she said. Her father was also using a first-generation iPad on a shaky wireless connection, making it hard to ente...

More than a dozen MPs and over 100 event industry executives have signed a letter to the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak, copying in prime minister Boris Johnson, calling for him to implement a Government-backed insurance scheme for festival, live music and events or face them disappearing from our fields and cities for good. The letter, written by DCMS Committee chair Julian Knight MP, follows the 5 January opening hearing of the Committee’s inquiry into the future of UK music festivals, during which festival operators emphasised the urgent need for Government support. At a cruci...

Calls for insurance scheme intensify in industry letter Thursday, 7 January 2021 A number of MPs and live event specialists have signed an open letter to Rishi Sunak in a bid to save summer events and more (Photo: Hanny Naibaho) UK - The live events industry has launched a fresh appeal for a government-backed COVID-19 insurance scheme with a letter signed by 120 sector representatives and MPs. In the letter, written by the chair of the DCMS committee Julian Knight and addressed to the chancellor Rishi Sunak, the sector - which has largely been shut down since March 2020 - warns that “[w]...

Day. talk about the crowded skies, mike. >> so what areas are getting hit the worse, anita? >> let's start on the east coast in ft. lauderdale at the airport. it's flooded from overnight rains. passengers woke up to this tweet that the airport was closed for a short period of time. imagine getting that in the morning. and then an update that it was back open but with 113 flight delays. in sacramento, the internet at the airport was down causing delays and forcing ticket agents to go back to the old fashioned ways of verifying passengers over the phone and writing out tickets and boarding passe...