Live UK Music Business Awards 2015

Glastonbury picked up two awards for Best Large Festival and Best Headline performance at a festival (for Lionel Richie) at the Live UK Music Business Awards at London’s Radisson Blu Portman Hotel on Thursday 15th October. Wembley received the award for Best Venue Teamwork – Stadium, Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham, won the Arena category and the Royal Albert Hall was awarded the Theatre Concert prize. United Talent Agency’s Natasha Bent, who represents acts such as Foals and Chvrches, was named Agent of the Year and Wildlife Entertainment’s Murray Curnow and Ian McAndrew won Artist Manager of the Year for their work with Royal Blood.

And those winners are:

Outstanding Contribution -  Status Quo

Best Venue Teamwork – Stadium: Wembley Stadium

Best Venue Teamwork – Arena: Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham

Best Venue Teamwork – Theatre Concert: Royal Albert Hall, London

Best Venue Teamwork – Arts Centre: The Junction, Cambridge

Best Venue Teamwork – Campus: UEA, Norwich

Best Venue Teamwork – Major Club: The Leadmill, Sheffield

Best Venue Teamwork – Club: The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

Artist Manager of the Year: Murray Curnow & Ian McAndrew, Wildlife Entertainment

Agent of the Year -  Natasha Bent, United Talent Agency

Best Festival (cap. 40,000+) -  Glastonbury

Best Festival (cap. 15,000-39,999) - Green Man

Best Festival (cap. under 15,000) - Wickham Festival

National Promoter of the Year -  Kilimanjaro Live

Regional Promoter of the Year -  DF Concerts (Scotland)

Indie Promoter of the Year -  Tom Baker, Eat Your Own Ears (London)

Greatest Brand Impact -  Jack Daniel’s

Best Festival Performance - Lionel Richie, Glastonbury

Breakthrough Artist -  Catfish And The Bottlemen

Spectacle of the Year (Best Production) -  Ed Sheeran tour

Tour Manager of the Year -  Ivan Kushlick, Captain Kush Productions (Kings Of Leon)

Best Record Label Partner -  Claire Coster & Nick Long, Atlantic Records

Unsung Hero: Clare Utting - United Talent Agency

UK Live Music Business Awards - and the winners are ....

Glastonbury walked away with the 'Best Large Festival' prize at the UK Live Music Business Awards in London last night at a fun packed (and fast paced!) ceremony at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel. Other winners on the night included Alex Hardee  who won Agent of the Year, Kwame Kwaten who was named Artist Manager of the Year, DHP Family who won Promoter of The Year, Orchard Events (wales) were worthy winners of Regional Promoter of the Year and Jamie Finn, of No-Wave (Folkestone) was Indie Promoter Of The Year. Best Record Label Partner went to Claire Haffenden from Universal Music

Latitude picked up the best mid-sized festival gong (15,000 - 39,000 capacity) and Bloodstock picked up best smaller festival (capacity under 15,000). Ben Howard won the "Breakthrough Artist award" and Graham Lambert, a Tour Rep, SJM Concerts, won the "Unsung Hero" Award. Tour Manager Of The Year was Glen Rowe (Muse), Spectacle Of The Year (Best Production) was Muse at Emirates Stadium, London and Best Festival Performance was Biffy Clyro at Reading.

Roger Daltry picked up the 'Outstanding Contribution' Award  in recognition of his enduring global success as frontman of The Who, and for being a driving force in the Teenage Cancer Trust and organiser of the charity’s high profile concert series.