Stuart Galbraith on UK’s huge live music summer
The Kilimanjaro Live chief ponders how Covid has changed the business and discusses whether the UK's stacked 2022 calendar is a one-off
News By James Hanley | 22 July 2022
Kilimanjaro Live chief Stuart Galbraith has given his verdict on the UK’s huge summer of live music in a new interview with IQ.
DEAG-owned Kili is coming off a spectacular summer in which it sold 1.5 million tickets for shows including stadium dates with Ed Sheeran and Stereophonics, alongside its annual Kew the Music and Live at Chelsea outdoor concert series and a raft of other tours.
More than one million people in the UK attended concerts in a single weekend in late June, while the past few weeks have been similarly jam-packed. But Galbraith does not expect the level of touring seen in 2022 to become the norm once the huge backlog of rescheduled gigs from 2020/21 clears up.
“Next summer will be busy, but I…
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