Concert Biz Set Up To Screw YouThe Newark Star-Ledger reports that the Izod Center at the Meadowlands has been kicking back money to concert promoters in order to land top acts; for instance, the concert promoter Live Nation received a $4-$6 rebate for all its concerts and thus granted “priority scheduling rights†to the Izod Centerâ€"the rebates reflected in higher ticket prices. Thousands of contracts between music acts’ promoters and the Izod Center append the articleâ€"happy reading!
Perhaps the most startling detail to the piece’s author is that “even the circus†manipulated the Izod Centerâ€"Ringling Bros. insisted upon a cut of the Sno-Cone business. (We were intrigued by the detail that Christina Aguilera insisted upon the venue providing a doctor on-call, until we remembered that it would have come out of our pockets, were we ever to go to New Jersey to see a Christina Aguilera concert.)
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