High times in the Lowlands: Netherlands market report
Dutch demand for live entertainment has never been higher, but ticket prices, stage availability, and burnt-out personnel are issues
Feature By Adam Woods | 16 January 2019
The big birthday in the Netherlands this year is, of course, that of Live Nation’s Mojo Concerts: 50 years old and still thoroughly on top. But there’s another birthday, too, of a slightly more approximate kind, and that’s the tenth-ish anniversary of modest but concerted independent competition in the Netherlands.
Almost entirely lacking for many years, as Mojo pioneered the market single-handed through the 70s, 80s, 90s, and the opening years of the new millennium, the Netherlands’ indie…