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Arcade Fire were presented with special plaques to commemorate their three sold-out dates in the round at The SSE Arena, Wembley. Pictured (l to r): James Harrison (arena bookings manager), Win Butler, John Drury (arena general manager), Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Will Butler, and promoter Toby Leighton-Pope (AEG Presents).
Pohoda Festival booker Monika Satková married Andrej Matiašovský on 14 April at a ceremony in St. Sebastian’s Cathedral, Bratislava in Slovakia. Čižmičky!!
X-ray Touring’s Beckie Sugden was beaming with pride when she met her sister Louise, fresh off the plane from the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. Former wheelchair basketball player Louise came home with a heavyweight Para Powerlifting silver medal, despite only taking up the sport nine months previously.
IQ news editor Jon Chapple took cover from the inclement weather in Andalusia, Spain, to moderate the obligatory Touring in the Post-Brexit Era panel at the Granada Experience conference with Charly Beedell-Tuck (Solo Agency), Sam Perl (Gracia Live) and Barnaby Harrod (Mercury Wheels/Live Nation).
As one of the board members and founders of the Phuket Has Been Good To Us Foundation, Michael Chugg accepts a cheque on behalf of the charity from Chutimon Coffee & Art, Cherngtalay-Laguna. The children’s charity was established on the back of the Wave Aid concert in 2005 to raise funds following the devastating 2004 tsunami, and funds teachers from all over the world to teach English to children across six Thai schools. Allan McGowan (IQ/ILMC) was on hand for the keynote interview with veteran French promoter Alain Lahana at MIL – Lisbon International Music Network.
Delegates at the second Palestinian Music Expo took time out of their schedule to tour parts of the West Bank, including a visit to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, where pictured are (l to r): Sian Evans, Genia Davey, Lucie Caswell, Sarah Williams, Jasmin Albash, Roz Mansfield, Beckie Sugden, Luisa Röbbelen, Isla Angus, and Saskia O’Hara.
Vanessa Reed (PRS For Music Foundation) makes a point during the 50/50 Festivals panel at Wide Days in Edinburgh, where she was joined by Stuart Fleming (PRS), Bev Burton (Killer B Music), Sarah Kiely (Open House Festival), Runa Strindin (Midgardsblot Festival), Nick Roberts (Electric Fields), and Nicola Meighan (BBC Radio Scotland). Wide Days attracted 350 music industry delegates from across Europe – around 100 more than its 2017 edition.
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IQ Magazine May 2018