Facing a challenging economic climate across The Gulf States is both helped and hindered by increasing live music activity with western artistes in Saudi Arabia – more act coming to the wider region is good, but vital equipment is being sucked over the border to support big productions raises issues…

That’s what the 400-year-old poem by the UK’s John Donne suggests, but the location of his headquarters and Carsten Svoldgaard’s company name, CSB Island Entertainment, comes close to it in a literal sense, which is ironic considering CSB is a 25-year-old business that works on a global scale. Christopher Barrett…

A NEW boutique electronic and dance music festival is to be launched in the coastal town of Dhermi next year. The 3,000-capacity ION festival is being organised by UK-based London Warehouse Event (LWE), the company behind the country’s Junction 2 (cap. 12,000) festival and scheduled to take place on 2–9…

NOT ONLY has AEG secured a new naming rights partner for its 65,000-capacity series of summer concerts in central London, but its given the event a name change too. American Express has replaced Barclaycard as the headline sponsor and British Summer Time has been renamed American Express presents BST Hyde…

A late 20th century science fiction and video games provided the visual inspiration for Muse’s Simulation Theory tour, with the theme of the show taking on its own character as the story unfolds, according to artistic director Jesse Lee Stout. He invited Sooner Routhier of Nashville, USA-based SRae Productions to…

The Cry Pretty Tour 360 by Carrie Underwood, an in-the-round production based its look on the eye logo featured on her album Cry Pretty. Tour dates include New York’s Madison Square Garden (cap. 18,600), Los Angeles’ Staples Center (20,000) and Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena (20,000). With a walkway stage in the…