ILMC Sells Out

This year’s 25th anniversary International Live Music Conference sold out three days before the event was due to open.
More than 1,000 delegates are expected to be at London’s Royal Gardens Hotel March 7-10.

Two of the gathering’s feature events, the Roaring 20s Anniversary Dinner & Arthur Awards and the Temporal Texas Hold’em Poker Tourney, are also full.

The various panels include “The Open Forum: A Time Experiment” hosted by former IQ editor Greg Parmley, with contributions from Marcel Avram (European Concert Agency), Pino Sagliocco ( Live Nation Spain), Michael Chugg (Chugg Entertainment), Ted Kurland (Ted Kurland Associates) and Barry Dickins (ITB).

“The Dragons’ Den” has Thomas Johansson and Leon Ramakers comparing notes and imparting a few tips from two people who have decades of experience between them.

This year’s Emerging Markets session will be chaired by Juri Makarov, head of Estonia’s Makarov Music, who also handled the original panel in 1988.

He’ll be joined by two pioneer promoters from the old Eastern Bloc, Nadia Solovieva of Russia’s SAV Entertainment and Lazslo Hegedus from Hungary’s Multimedia Organisation.

Although not hosting the opening Friday afternoon session anymore, Carl Leighton-Pope will no doubt attract a full house for the second Dragon’s Den session.

The conference’s marketing blurb says “expect lessons and road stories covering a lifetime in the agency business,” which sounds very similar to the session he used to host.