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Mean Fiddler eyes more overseas festivals. (Talent).
Mean Fiddler Group is planning to follow its strongest ticket sales yet for the Bank Holiday weekend Reading and Leeds Festivals by extending its international expansion into Ireland.
Managing director Melvin Benn says it aims to create a completely new festival in Ireland next year, while the group is expected to make an announcement at the end of this month about moving into the festival market in Spain. In July, it took a 25% stake in the key German festival Bizarre.
Its planned international endeavours come as Benn points to "solid line-ups" led by headliners Foo Fighters, The Strokes and Guns 'N Roses and a "strong brand" to the fastest sell-out yet of its Reading Festival. All 55,000 tickets were sold out in six weeks, while the sister Leeds event sold out for the first time this year.
He is confident the future of the Leeds event will remain secure despite riots breaking out at the Temple Newsam site last Monday. "The reality is that if people look at what was achieved in ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) September 2, 2004 700+ words
...brains and brawn behind Reading's owner Mean Fiddler Group. Last weekend's music festival...this year's Glastonbury, in which Mean Fiddler also has a stake. Not surprisingly...he quips. Workaholism has turned the Mean Fiddler Group from an 1980s country and western...
- NME and Mean Fiddler launch webcast venue.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire January 26, 2000 700+ words
...PRESSWIRE-26 January 2000-NME: NME and Mean Fiddler launch webcast venue (C)1994-2000...flagship music website nme.com and the Mean Fiddler organisation. nme.com, Europe...installing permanent cameras into The Mean Fiddler in Harlesden with a view to hosting...
- Mama Group buys Mean Fiddler music venues for 6m [pounds sterling].(News:...
- Magazine article from: Leisure Report September 1, 2007 700+ words
...entire issued share capital of MFH from Mean Fiddler Music Group. The businesses owned by...Borderline, the Garage and the former Mean Fiddler, all of which are live music venues...Under the terms of the agreement, Mean Fiddler will continue to be entitled to operate...
- MEAN FIDDLER MUSIC GROUP PLC - Carling Sponsorship Renewal.
- Newspaper article from: PR Newswire UK Disclose March 29, 2005 700+ words
Immediate Release: 29 March 2005 Mean Fiddler Music Group Plc ("Mean Fiddler" or the "Company") Carling Signs Three-Year Festival Sponsorship Renewal With Mean Fiddler Mean Fiddler is pleased to announce that it has...
- Mean Fiddler calls tune.
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) Kar-Gupta, Sudip May 13, 2000 700+ words
...com is the Internet offshoot of his Mean Fiddler Group, which runs music venues in London...around the country. He set up the first Mean Fiddler venue in Harlesden, north London...prevalent in Nashville. Thus was born the Mean Fiddler in 1982. The opening night saw a crowd...
- Mean Fiddler tuning in to expansion after windfalls.(Business)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) September 16, 2003 700+ words
MUSIC promoter Mean Fiddler yesterday pledged to expand its core...with Islington Council in London. Mean Fiddler, which promotes leading music festivals...bars,have also been sold off. Mean Fiddler's interim results, which will...
- POWER TO YOUR ELBOW; Mean Fiddler boss steps in to save Glastonbury.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) March 3, 2002 700+ words
...businessman, who heads up the London-based Mean Fiddler organisation, has ensured that Glastonbury...back on the music calendar since the Mean Fiddler organisation stuck a deal with promoter...running the event since its conception. Mean Fiddler will handle the security and general...
- New owners call the tune for 38m [pounds sterling] Mean Fiddler.(Cinema &...
- Magazine article from: Leisure Report May 1, 2005 700+ words
Mean Fiddler, the UK music promoter, has accepted...which is still subject to approval by Mean Fiddler shareholders, will see Power pocket...top venues under common ownership. Mean Fiddler owns the London Astoria, the Reading...