Mimi covers the companies that own the stages and the places where they meet. On the business side that means promoter results, ticketing and resale, private equity in festival ownership, and the regulators and courts now writing rules for all of it.
The same people do their deals on two circuits that overlap more than either admits: electronic music's own festival economy, from Amsterdam Dance Event to Tomorrowland, and the showcase and conference calendar where bookers, agents and export offices decide a year in advance who will be on next summer's posters: MaMA in Paris, Reeperbahn in Hamburg, BIME in Bilbao, ESNS in Groningen.
She works from filings, regulator documents and trade data as well as French, Dutch, German and Spanish language press, gives every figure with its period and its source, and prefers a number that can be checked to an adjective that cannot.
Write to Mimi at press@musictosee.com.
