GOLDSMITH: ‘MORE MUSE OR THE CONCERT BUSINESS WILL DIE IN FIVE YEARS’
Concert mastermind HARVEY GOLDSMITH has called on music executives to fin d more groups like MUSE if they want to put on huge live events and big t ours - or risk another disastrous summer of cancelled shows and poor tick et sales.
The Live Aid promoter admits he’s not surprised that 2010 has been a fl at year for festivals and concert tours - because there are only a handfu l of bands and artists big enough to command sell outs and success.
He tells CelebrityAccess.com, "The only kind of stadium star or arena-p lus star act that has come through recently is Muse. That=E2=80=99s it. B oth here in Britain and in America. We need more of them.
"We need to have, as I have said time and time again, new promoters wit h new ideas, building new acts up so they become the new superstars. With out that, within five years=E2=80=99 time, there will not be a business."
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