Ed Warner: Sport owners mustn’t forget the loyal and local in rush to go global Sport Business In the frenzied rush to create global franchises and events, the sport business risks forgetting local and loyal fans at their peril, says Ed Warner. Storm Darragh dashed many sporting dreams last weekend, including those of the Australian 15-year-old who spent all his savings on a solo trip from Down Under only for the last [...]
Beatles ’64: Scorsese tackles the band’s Beatlemania moment Life&Style Producer Martin Scorsese and Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films bring to life perhaps the biggest moment in pop music history. Beatles ’64 is the story of John, Paul, George and Ringo arriving in America for the first time for a fortnight of performances and press, a phenomenon that was referred to as Beatlemania. Told mainly through [...]
A$AP Rocky, Rihanna, Tranmere Rovers and football’s ‘celebrification’ Sport Business The deal is just the latest example of football’s “celebrification”.
IPL founder: I wanted Mick Jagger to save English cricket from The Hundred October 8, 2024 Indian Premier League founder Lalit Modi has revealed that he earmarked Mick Jagger as a team owner in a new English cricket competition to replace The Hundred and T20 Blast. Modi says he offered the England and Wales Cricket Board £2.3bn over 20 years to buy the summer window in which The Hundred operates – [...]
Coldplay Moon Music review: Could this be perfect pop? October 8, 2024 Every now and then I find myself considering the fine margins between major and minor success. I remember, for instance, a gig I attended at the turn of the millennium at the Nottingham Arena performed by the band Travis. In those days, like their rivals Coldplay, they could easily fill a stadium of 10,000 people. [...]
What does it take to be the best… at Karaoke? October 7, 2024 Barging past a swarm of small children jostling upwards from the seafront, I arrive at the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre. It is, with the best will in the world, an ugly building, like a bingo hall had sex with a secondary school. Inside is a different story. Its intestines are a marbled maze of tiles and [...]
Competition watchdog to probe Ticketmaster’s ‘dynamic pricing’ for Oasis tickets September 5, 2024 The UK's competition watchdog has launched a probe into Ticketmaster's sale of Oasis concert tickets, including the platform's use of so-called "dynamic pricing".
Oasis ticket prices are none of the government’s business September 4, 2024 Labour’s plans to intervene in the market for Oasis tickets betray a basic ignorance of the principles of supply and demand, says James Price So, Sally can wait – and wait and wait online for Oasis tickets. Or Taylor Swift, or whatever a Charli XCX is. That’s what happens when there is lots of demand [...]
Strange dreams: Lessons from the life of Paul Simon August 29, 2024 An essay on what I have absorbed over a lifetime listening to Paul Simon What do you need to make a musical career? I’d say it comes down to one thing: a talent for immediacy. If you don’t have it, the chances are you’ll lose out to someone who does. I remember when I first [...]
Spread power with words: Asian Dub Foundation interview August 29, 2024 In the wake of the riots, the Asian Dub Foundation shows us the political power of music. Guitarist Steve Chandra Savale speaks to Lucy Kenningham