Glastonbury plans final encore for David Bowie, Prince and Lemmy

Edit The Guardian 05 Jun 2016
Organisers of this year’s festival say hundreds of tributes to the three stars will be staged throughout the event. @townsendmark ... Twitter ... According to the leading rock promoter and manager Harvey Goldsmith, who has worked with most of the western world’s biggest music stars – from the Who to the Rolling Stones and Madonna – the biggest problem is a lack of new bands to succeed the old ones ... Twitter. ....

Kiss musician Gene Simmons says the band try to limit ticket resale

Edit BBC News 26 Apr 2016
Kiss singer Gene Simmons has admitted the band struggle to contain fans buying overinflated prices for their gigs on the secondary ticketing market. He said ... But we do try to limit that sort of shenanigans." ... Senior figures in the music industry have criticised the secondary ticketing market, with concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith calling secondary ticketing websites "a national disgrace" ... Related Topics ... ....

Titanic team to operate museum charting the history of UK music

Edit Belfast Telegraph 22 Apr 2016
The team behind Titanic Belfast has been appointed to operate the British Music Experience in Liverpool - a major museum charting the history of UK music through the decades ... Share Go To ... Harvey Goldsmith, museum chairman and veteran music promoter, said....

BME announces Liverpool operator (Liverpool City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. Liverpool City Council). The British Music Experience, UK's Museum of Popular Music, has selected Titanic Belfast Ltd as Operator of the BME at the Cunard building ... m trade fair and event space ... Chair of The BME, Harvey Goldsmith CBE, said 'The Trustees of the BME are thrilled to partner with the Titanic Belfast team ... The BME is managed by an independent Board of Trustees and chaired by Harvey Goldsmith, CBE ... Original Document....

Parents of man killed in Baku crash call on F1 to improve road safety in city

Edit The Guardian 21 Apr 2016
Micah Maxwell-Milne killed in accident during European Games last year. • ‘More must be done to protect those travelling to Azerbaijan this summer’. @owen_g ... “We have been told that driving licences are for sale on the streets of Baku ... Her 23-year-old son, who had dual British and Australian citizenship, had worked on seven Olympic ceremonies and was also a production co-ordinator for Harvey Goldsmith Productions in the UK ... ....

Preparations for the arrival of the British Music Experience (Liverpool City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Mar 2016
(Source. Liverpool City Council). The arrival of Britain's only museum of popular music is one step closer as the lease and funding is set to be approved next week (Friday 18 March) ... Mayor Joe Anderson, said ... BME chair, Harvey Goldsmith, said 'The BME is delighted the project has reached the Cabinet for approval ... The BME is managed by an independent Board of Trustees and chaired by Harvey Goldsmith, CBE ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Phil Collins returns: ‘I got letters from nurses saying, “That’s it, I’m not buying your records”’

Edit The Guardian 11 Feb 2016
He was one of the planet’s biggest stars, selling 100ms of records. He talks about the madness of fame, that threat to leave the UK and whether he really dumped his wife by fax ... Most professional musicians would have been horrified ... Twitter ... Isn’t there some mistake?’ But no, it kept going.” At the suggestion of promoter Harvey Goldsmith, he played Live Aid in two countries, flying from London to Philadelphia by Concorde and helicopter ... ....

‘He Was A Very Kind Man’

Edit Inquisitr 18 Jan 2016
Bob Geldof first met David Bowie when he was the lead singer of a fledgling rock band, The Boomtown Rats. Bowie was already a rock superstar ... In a new piece for The Georgia Straight, the Vancouver, British Columbia, newspaper where Geldof was music editor in the 1970s, the singer reflected on Bowie ... This was despite objections from Geldof and concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith for Bowie to just stick with the hits ... Impeccable. A laugh....

Music industry calls for action over secondary ticketing sites

Edit BBC News 20 Nov 2015
Published in The Times, the letter says fans are being "ripped-off by touts who anonymously exploit fair ticket prices via online ticket marketplaces" ... Earlier this week concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith told the BBC the issue of secondary ticketing websites was "a national disgrace" ... "We're asking the government to pass a law which says you cannot sell a ticket for more than 10% of its face value," Goldsmith told the BBC ... ....

Harvey Goldsmith: Ticket re-sale websites 'a national disgrace'

Edit BBC News 18 Nov 2015
Concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith has called secondary ticketing websites "a national disgrace". He said tickets to U2's recent London shows were advertised for up to £3,300 on resale sites, despite a face value of £182 ... Goldsmith's comments come a week after rock star Prince postponed the sale of tickets to his European tour over concerns about tickets being resold on third-party websites ... Media captionTicket touts ... ....

Ticket re-sale sites are a 'disgrace'

Edit BBC News 18 Nov 2015
Concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith calls the secondary ticketing market "a national disgrace" and calls on the government to take action ... ....

Peter Asher 'Memoir' show makes sentimental return to Sacramento area

Edit The Examiner 11 Nov 2015
Peter Asher brings his "Musical Memoir of the 60s and Beyond" back to California this week and it will have special meaning, Asher's manager Keith Putney said Tuesday ... 11. It will be Asher's first solo show in the area ... 1 this week ... Harvey Goldsmith has announced new dates for "Hans Zimmer Revealed,” now dubbed "Hans Zimmer Live On Tour", for which Asher will return to his role as musical director of a 70 piece ensemble ... ....

British Music Experience to Rock Liverpool (Liverpool City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Sep 2015
Mayor Joe Anderson and BME Chairman Harvey Goldsmith CBE have joined forces to bring the attraction to Liverpool, which will see more than 600 rare BME music heritage archive items go on display in the former Departure Lounge location ... The BME is managed by an independent Board of Trustees and chaired by Harvey Goldsmith, CBE....
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