Guy Oldaker Joins Circle Talent, Agency Expands With Big Plans

– Circle Talent Agency
Kevin Gimble and Steve Gordon

Circle Talent Agency continues to expand, with the addition of agent Guy Oldaker, who brings acts including Illenium, Liquid Stranger and Break Science. 

Denver-based Illenium, who will be co-represented by Circle Talent partner Steve Gordon, has been on a tear, with boxoffice reports to Pollstar including selling out Myth in Saint Paul Dec. 22, with 3,300 tickets and $97,350 grossed, Aragon Ballroom in Chicago Dec. 14 (4,825, $120,625) and the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Michigan, which sold out 2,000 tickets and grossed $57,009 Dec. 13.

“I’m really excited to be working with Illenium, it’s such a positive act and the whole thing is great,” Circle Talent Agency Partner Steve Gordon told Pollstar. “He blew out Red Rocks in 24 hours, he’s on Coachella, and he just announced FVDED in The Park.” Illenium is No.  64 on this week’s Pollstar Global Concert Pulse, with an average gross of $68,908 per city based on boxoffice reports submitted within the last three months.

“Liquid Stranger is on the Excision tour and that entire tour of course is selling out again,” Gordon said, adding that Excision, the red-hot producer and brains behind his “50,000-watt Paradox” production setup, this year will roll out a new, three-night camping experience festival to be announced later.

– Steve Gordon
Steve With Circle Talent clients Datsik and Excision at the new Lost Lands Festival in Ohio, which sold 25,000 three-day tickets Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.

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Excision’s Lost Lands Festival, which debuted last year in Ohio and sold out 25,000 tickets over two days, has already sold 15,000 tickets for this year with only Excision announced, according to Gordon.

Recent boxoffice reports from Excision include 11,818 tickets sold over two nights at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colo., which grossed $526,714 in April.

Other notable additions to the growing agency include agent Jon Griffin, who brings Space Jesus and Buku and had been at boutique agency Waveform.