Live Nation Hires New Promoter Team in France

Live Nation Hires New Promoter Team in France

LONDON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Live Nation, the world's largest live music company, today announced that it has significantly expanded its promoter team in France, the 6th largest music market in the World.

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Angelo Goppe, formerly with Nous Productions, will join Live Nation as Senior Vice President Promotions and will focus on growing Live Nation's volume of international and local concerts in France. He will be joined by Armel Campagna and Damien Chombard-Boudet, both formerly with Gerard Drouot Productions, and Jonathan Miltat, formerly with Deluxe Productions.

Alan Ridgeway, Live Nation CEO of International Music, commented, "It is a pleasure to welcome this exciting young team of promoters to Live Nation. Since we entered France in 2007 through our partnership with Jackie Lombard, we have seen a huge opportunity to bring more international and local concerts to music fans in Paris and the rest of France. This great team of promoters, under the leadership of Isabelle Gamsohn, Managing Director for France, ensures that we are now well positioned to take full advantage of these opportunities."

Angelo Goppe added, "I am looking forward to working alongside Isabelle and the international and global touring teams at Live Nation to become the leading concert promoter in France."

Live Nation's other activities in France currently include partnerships with promoter Jackie Lombard, with France Leduc and Herman Schueremans in Main Square Festival and with Vega SA for the management of the Nikaia arena in Nice.

Upcoming events promoted by Live Nation France include Paul McCartney (10 December), Depeche Mode (17-20 January 2010) and Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco (21 January - 5 February 2010). Full details of these and all other shows can be found on www.livenation.fr

ABOUT LIVE NATION

Live Nation's mission is to maximize the live concert experience. Our core business is producing, marketing and selling live concerts for artists via our global concert pipe. 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. For additional information about the company, please visit www.livenation.com/investors.

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CONTACT: John Vlautin of Live Nation, +1-310-867-7127,
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Web Site: http://www.livenation.com/

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