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Speeches by Maynard.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

The Guardian says you have 60% of primary concert ticketing. You are saying that is not true.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

It is all on the web.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

It is true.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Except you are a lot bigger than your competitors.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Phil, you say you are a promoter, but Live Nation manages artists, festivals and venues. It sells tickets. It does that more than anybody else in the country. You are saying, “Oh, I am a promoter”, but the reality is that you are part of an enormous corporate group that wraps itself around the consumer in all these dif

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Yes, it seems to be a good analogy for what is going on here.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Again, the words “vampire squid” are going through my head, but maybe “octopus” is better. It is just the wraparound.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

It does not work that way.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Okay, but I have seven here. What is weird about this is that you say you are competitors, but you co-own a whole load of companies together. You cannot really say, “I co-own something together, but we are competing”.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

LN-Gaiety purchased stakes from the founders, including Simon Moran, making them co-owners. That is what I have.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

I will give you a hand. There is DF Concerts. Moran holds a 20% stake. There is a stake in Boomtown festival. You, Gaiety and SJM each hold stakes there. There is Camp Bestival; there is V Festival; there is Academy Music Group.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

You name it, anything.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Any other sides?

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Really?

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

How many companies do you co-own with SJM?

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Are you partners or are you competitors?

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Dealing with another entity, what is your relationship with SJM Concerts?

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

With respect, you are cherry-picking those points. I will park it there.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

There are lots of ways to make money apart from the ticket, are there not? You have all sorts of ways of making money.

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24 Jun 2025Business and Trade Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1073)

Without wanting to take us down that rabbit hole, our point, essentially, is that you are wrapping yourself around the consumer every which way, whether it is ticketing, festivals and venues, management of artists, or event promotions. Essentially, it is the octopus. That is what is going on here, and that is what we a

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