Metropolitan Milestone: 40 years of Metropolis Music
IQ learns about the storied history of one of the UK's foremost concert promoters as it celebrates its 40th birthday
Feature By Gordon Masson | 3 November 2025
From modest beginnings, Metropolis Music has become one of the UK’s foremost concert promoters, with a roster of acts that includes some of the biggest names on the planet – Björk, Blur, Coldplay, Eminem, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Raye, Robbie Williams, Teddy Swims, and Tyler, The Creator.
As the company celebrates its 40th birthday, Gordon Masson learns about its storied history, on the back of yet another record-breaking year.
Studying for a degree in chemical physics doesn’t sound like the ideal path to becoming one of the world’s pioneering promoters, but for Bob Angus that’s precisely the higher education route that set him on the road to founding Metropolis Music, which for the past 40 years has been helping artists and bands…
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