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Live music conference set to address crowd safety issues.

Music Week

| March 03, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 UBM Information Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The issue of crowd safety will take centre stage at the 13th gathering of the International Live Music Conference (ILMC) following recent fatalities at a number of large rock festivals.

The live music industry talking shop, which takes place between March 9-11 at London's Royal Garden Hotel, will set aside the main forum on the Saturday afternoon to discuss how further deaths and injuries at rock festivals can be avoided after the recent disasters at the Danish Roskilde and Australian Big Day Out events.

A focus group set up to address safety issues following Roskilde will report during that afternoon session, co-chaired by Star Hire's Roger Barrett.

Contributions to the debate are also expected from Roskilde's promoter Lief Skov and a representative from Glastonbury, which has ...

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