Live industry leaders on 2024’s ‘best bits’
IQ has been speaking with a number of touring executives around the world to gather their highlights from the past 12 months
Feature By IQ | 2 January 2025
While parts of the festival business took a hammering, and touring mid-tier and club-level shows proved tricky, contributors to IQ‘s end-of-year issue have cited numerous highlights from the past 12 months.
Detailing the evolution at DEAG, CEO Detlef Kornett points to different areas of expansion. “We’ve seen significant development in spoken word – in particular, literary and personality events,” he says. “Spoken word and literary events got ‘entertainment-ified’; they became a production with lights, sounds, and video, and they have…
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