Talks by topic · 12 picks · Wed to Sat · Pro pass
The business of rooms, tours and tickets.
For promoters, bookers, venue and festival people. Pollstar's numbers, how bookings really get made, ticketing that doesn't fall over, and what the next generation of club promoters is doing differently.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Industry pass needed for most sessions.
A room full of people who book festivals.
World Club Dome's David Wyrich, Audio Obscura's Jeroen Fontein, festival producer Jo Vidler and about a dozen more promoters, in a structured meet-up. Bring a one-line pitch and a link.
With David Wyrich, Emanuel Iliev, Jeroen Fontein, Jo Vidler, Kieran Ratcliffe, Matt Brockman
Clubs are closing. Resist it or move with it?
A round-table on why nightclubs go dark in most cities while a few boom, and who is responsible for what happens next. For venue people, promoters and city policy folk.
Touring pays the bills now. Here's what it costs to run.
Night Department's Kathi Longinus, BLK Matter's Elise Milani and business manager Daniel Berrocal on the infrastructure behind a touring artist, with Pollstar's Brij Gosai. For managers and agents.
With Brij Gosai, Daniel Berrocal, Elise Milani, Kathi Longinus, Scott Campbell
Five things changing how people go out.
Ticketing and events people from Ancienne Belgique, Fourvenues and Amsterdam's Chasing the Hihat on what the data shows about audiences right now. For promoters planning next season.
With Inés Martinez Llinas, Jasmijn Stenzler, Lara Decrae, Rob Simon
The numbers behind electronic music's live boom.
Pollstar's Brij Gosai on what the box-office data says about dance music's growth, and where it doesn't add up. Speakers still to be announced when we checked.
With Brij Gosai
Everything between the door and the dancefloor.
Weeztix on event operations without queues or cash: entry, payments and the moments where nights go wrong. For production and ops people.
Why we still need to dance together.
Eris Drew, whose sets are built on the idea of the dancefloor as shared ecstasy, with Club RAUM's Sven Bijma and Leeds professor Alice O'Grady, who studies what dancing together does to people. The most human panel of the week.
With Alice O'Grady, Eris Drew, Sven Bijma
From first party to a business that lasts.
AVA founder Sarah McBriar, Encode's Aurelia Sarah Ortiz and Gashouder programmer Raaf Verhoef, chaired by AFEM's Finlay Johnson. For promoters a few parties in and wondering what comes next.
With Aurelia Sarah Ortiz, Finlay Johnson, Raaf Verhoef, Sarah McBriar
Twenty years backstage in Brazil's live boom.
Tour manager Cuca Pimentel and Sete Rosas' Marcela Moura, who have worked directly with artists through Brazil's growth, on how shows there actually run.
With Cuca Pimentel, Marcela Moura
The art of the after-hours, from the people who run them.
Breakfast Club's Brent Roozendaal, Club RAUM's Sven Bijma and DJ Doudou MD, with DJ Mag's Rob McCallum, on parties that run into the next week. ADE's after-hours culture, explained by its keepers.
With Brent Roozendaal, Doudou MD, Rob McCallum, Sven Bijma
Old MCs, new MCs, one cypher.
House of Knowledge brings generations together: Rotjoch, Latifah, Nosa, Alee Rock and 4SHOBANGERS talk, then rhyme. Generational exchange is how MC culture works; this is it in practice.
With 4SHOBANGERS, Alee Rock, Latifah, Nosa, Randall Spann, Rotjoch
Bring your track. Joseph Capriati and BT will listen.
Demolition is the long-running session where producers' demos get played and critiqued in public: this year by Joseph Capriati, BT, Pooja B and Louisahhh, with Dave Clarke. Brave, useful and often funny.
With BT, Dave Clarke, Ivan Markovic, Joseph Capriati, Louisahhh, Pooja B
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