Day: January 10, 2025

Viagogo and StubHub platforms to be hit by cap of face value plus 30% or less

The price at which tickets for live events can be resold is to be capped under “gamechanging” proposals put forward by the government to crack down on touting in the sector.

In a move hailed by music industry figures, the culture minister, Lisa Nandy, has launched a consultation that she said would end the “misery” of fans being exploited by touts, some of whom have made huge profits by selling hundreds of tickets a year. Continue reading…
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From a spectacular theatrical opening to Afrobeat brass bands via David Hockney and Wallace and Gromit, the city has big plans

* Bradford city of culture: five events to look out for in 2025

Below-zero temperatures are forecast at City Park on Friday evening but the warmth radiating from Bradford’s mighty UK city of culture opening will undoubtedly put everyone in the mood to celebrate.

The city was right in the centre of a badly timed amber weather warning this week and suffered a deluge of snow that the council has “been proper grafting” to clear, said the show’s dramaturg, Kirsty Taylor. Continue reading…
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