Live Nation’s mission is to maximize the live concert experience.  Their core business is producing, marketing and selling live concerts for artists via a global music platform.

Live Nation is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually producing over 22,000 concerts for 1,600 artists in 33 countries.  During 2008, the company sold over 50 million concert tickets and drove over 70 million unique visitors to LiveNation.com. 

Live Nation is transforming the concert business by expanding its concert platform into ticketing and building the industry’s first artist-to-fan vertically integrated concert platform.  

The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LYV.

SJM Concerts have worked with a range of artists over the years including Oasis, Take That, Radiohead, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Robbie Williams, The Killers, Stereophonics, Scissor Sisters, Keane, Faithless, Spice Girls, Sugababes, Foo Fighters and Muse.

In 1996, SJM initiated the "V" Festival with a consortium of three other promoters. The award winning event has consistently been voted the best festival in end of year polls, leading to the two-side format being widely imitated by competitors. More recently, in 2006, SJM promoted Take That's comeback shows selling over 550,000 tickets in the process.

1996 was also the year that the company initiated the “V” Festival with a consortium of three other promoters. The award winning event has consistently been voted the best festival in end of year polls, leading to the two-side format being widely imitated by competitors.

SJM Concerts is one of the leading promoters in the UK and has since been voted ‘Promoter Of The Year’ several times by industry magazine “Live”. Simon Moran, Managing Director of SJM Concerts sits on the Academy Music Group Board of Directors.

Metropolis Music was founded in 1985 by Bob Angus. Fellow director Paul Hutton joined the company in 1987 and Glyn Smith became Financial Director in 2004. The business has grown in stature and reputation over the years and is now recognised as one of the country’s leading independent concert promotion companies. Bob Angus also sits on the executive committee of the Concert Promoters Association. There are currently twenty five plus full time employees at Metropolis Music. 

The company promotes some five hundred concerts per year in clubs, ballrooms, city halls, arenas and stadiums across the UK. They have promoted many of the most significant acts today and among their many current clients are Robbie Williams, Eminem, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Kings Of Leon, Razorlight, Foo Fighters, Rammstein, System Of A Down, Blur, Basement Jaxx, Bjork, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, The Specials, Lily Allen, Elbow, Scissor Sisters and Nick Cave.

They are committed to working with acts from their inception, helping to build their careers as touring artistes from their first small concerts to huge arenas and green field sites.  Significant events have included - 3 record breaking nights of Robbie Williams at Knebworth Park, 5 nights at Milton Keynes Bowl and 2 nights at Cardiff Millennium Stadium; Coldplay at Crystal Palace and Wembley Stadium; Oasis at Wembley Stadium, Milton Keynes Bowl, Coventry Ricoh Stadium and Cardiff Millennium Stadium; Eminem at Milton Keynes Bowl; Blur at Mile End Stadium and Hyde Park.

Metropolis Music is also a partner in the “V Festival”, sponsored by the Virgin Group, a dual site event and consistent winner of Live Magazine’s European Festival Of The Year. Metropolis Music currently work with a number of media partners and sponsors to produce events such as the NME Awards Shows, T4 on the Beach (as consultant), BBC Electric Proms, and Summer Series at Somerset House. 

In June 2008 Metropolis Music Management was created with Director Raye Cosbert; the company currently manages the Brits 2007 Best Female Artist and 5 Grammy Award winning Amy Winehouse, and has an ever expanding roster of new and exciting artistes, including Sam Sparro, Dionne Bromfield and GLC.

MCD Productions is Ireland’s leading talent buying and concert promotions company. Established in 1980 and headquartered in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, MCD is responsible for the broadest range of entertainments events in Ireland and the UK that range from hosting U2 before 240,0000 at Croke Park  to securing David Bowie for an intimate one-off special event in front of 200 people in Dublin.
 

Other MCD promoted events include Kings of Leon, Madonna, Prince, Oasis, Celine Dion, Bon Jovi, Take That, Neil Diamond, The Killers, Disney On Ice, Robbie Williams, Rolling Stones, Westlife, Fleetwood Mac, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rod Stewart, Special Olympics, MTV European Music Awards to name a few.

MCD Productions develops, manages and promotes some of the biggest and best outdoor festivals in Europe including Oxegen (Ireland), T In The Park (Scotland) and “V” Festival (England) in association with SJM and Metropolis Music.

MCD Productions also owns and operates a number of venues including The Olympia Theatre, The Gaiety Theatre, The Ambassador Theatre and the Academy, Dublin.  MCD Productions enjoys an unrivalled industry reputation selling over 1,000,000 tickets annually in the Irish market.