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The Scotsman
He has been at the heart of efforts to bring some of the world's biggest sporting and cultural extravaganzas to Scotland — now the country' events supremo is warning that Scotland must take more risks in future if it is remain a key global player.
Paul Bush, who has spearheaded the EventScotland agency for the last decade, has warned "more of the same is not an option" following a decade which saw the Ryder Cup, Commonwealth Games, the MTV Europe Music Awards and The Turner Prize lured to Scotland.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Organizers of festivals in San Francisco have long complained they are hostage to the whims of the Police Department. The department has final say on whether they can get a permit to sell alcohol and also dictates how many off-duty officers the festival must hire — a number the organizers say is arbitrary and comes late in the process.
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Quartz
This past weekend in Hong Kong, over 60,000 people attended the Clockenflap Music Festival, a three-day event featuring live musicians from around the world. Tickets cost anywhere from HK$980 to HK$1,940 (US$126 to US$250), and could be purchased with cash at the door.
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New Zealand Herald
The summer festival season in New Zealand has got off to a bumpy start with the cancellation of two major festivals. Lydia Jenkin investigates the state of the industry and what it takes to succeed in the current climate. Back in October, it was announced that SoulFest had been cancelled. Low ticket sales in Australia forced cancellation of the entire run of dates, both in Oz and in Auckland.
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IFEA
From Website Audits; Event Marketing and Weather ... to Sponsorship Retention; Media Relations; Food & Beverage Programs; Volunteers; Mobile Gamification and more ... there's a little something for everyone in the 2016 IFEA Live Webinar Schedule! Check out the schedule now!
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The city has canceled its agreement with a Los Angeles talent agency to produce concerts after the company failed to pull off either of its promised events this year. Los Angeles-based ICM Partners, which represents some of the biggest names in music, last year was granted exclusive access to the Gateway Mall over Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends to produce "world-class outdoor high-quality music festivals" under the "Summer Rocks" moniker.
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Complete Music Update
After Chancellor Of The Exchequer George Osborne confirmed last week that the government’s review of business rates would now not report until next March, the live community has again expressed concern about that way the Valuation Office Agency — which advises the tax man on the taxable value of property – has been recommending business rates be applied to festival sites where previously no such payments were required.
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Reuters
Electronic music festival organizer SFX Entertainment Inc, which puts on days-long dance extravaganzas including New York's "Electric Zoo," is exploring a debt restructuring, a spokesman for its chief executive told Reuters.
SFX has asked investment bank Moelis & Co to propose ways of slashing the company's debt pile, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, cautioning that no decision about a particular course of action has been taken.
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Al Jazeera
High on the plateau of Myanmar's Shan State — a region rife with insurgency and rich in ethnic diversity, located in the country that is the world's second largest producer of opium — the sky explodes in a galactic display of handmade fireworks as they are launched clinging to the base of paper hot-air balloons.
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