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CMU’s One Liners: Merlin, Attitude Is Everything, Chugg Entertainment, more
By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 9 February 2016
Other notable announcements and developments today…
• Roll up! Roll up! Get down to Merlin for low, low prices on administration fees. Now just 2%, down from 2.5% last year. “It is hugely satisfying to announce today’s 20% reduction in administration fees”, said Charles Caldas, CEO at the indie label digital rights agency.
• Attitude Is Everything will launch its new State Of Access report at Bush Hall in London on 22 Feb. There will be a presentation about the report, followed by a discussion of its key findings. Free tickets here.
• The CEO of Australian live firm Chugg Entertainment, Matthew Lazarus-Hall, is standing down to start his own consultancy business, though he will continue to be involved in some projects with his former employer.
• The European Arenas Association, which is my favourite of all the arena associations, has a new General Manager in the form of Nancy Skipper, most recently Administrator at the UK’s National Arenas Association, my second favourite of all the arena associations.
• Rivers Cuomo covered ‘Trap Queen’ by Fetty Wap. Here’s fifteen seconds of it.
• Mat Zo will release his second album, ‘Self Assemble’, on 1 Apr. From it, this is ‘Soul Food’.
• Death Grips have released a new track, ‘Hot Head’, from their forthcoming ‘Bottomless Pit’ album.
• Here’s Femme’s new single ‘Light Me Up’. Her debut album, ‘Debutante’, is out on 15 Apr. There’s an album launch party at Corsica Studios in London on 13 Apr.
