Indie Champions 2024:
Alter Art

Alter Art is the largest independent promoter of festivals and concerts in Poland, with a history that dates back over 25 years when it was launched by Mikołaj Ziółkowski.

By IQ | 9 June 2025

Alter Art is the largest independent promoter of festivals and concerts in Poland, with a history that dates back over 25 years when it was launched by Mikołaj Ziółkowski.

Emerging from the world of alternative and punk music, Ziółkowski has helped shape today’s live music business in Poland, driven by his profound passion and love for music, coupled with a desire to foster new phenomena.

Alter Art promotes a swathe of international and local acts across a portfolio of events from small clubs to stadium shows, while it also runs some of the biggest festivals in Poland, including Orange Warsaw (40,000) and its flagship event, Open’er, which in 2024 attracted more than 130,000 festivalgoers. This year’s highlights include co-promoting Taylor Swift’s Eras…

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INDIE CHAMPIONS 2024:

One Fiinix Live

The coronavirus pandemic was the driver behind Jon Ollier creating agency One Fiinix Live. The company launched in November 2020, and for the first few months, its sole employees were Ollier and Emma Davis.

evenko

One of Canada’s largest independent promoters, evenko produces nearly 1,600 music, family, and sports events throughout Quebec, the Atlantic provinces, and the eastern United States on an annual basis.

Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion

The company was officially founded in 1962 by Karsten Jahnke, who finally turned his hobby of promoting concerts into a business.

Mercury Concerts

After the Mercury relaunch in 2014, the first tour saw Guns N’ Roses playing 14 dates across South America. Other acts promoted by the company include KISS, Aerosmith, Rush, Ozzy Osbourne and Bon Jovi.

MCT Agentur

MCT was formed in 1984 by Die Toten Hosen manager Jochen Hülder, Rough Trade Booking Germany chief Dietrich Eggert, and tour manager Scumeck Sabottka.

Cap-Cap Produccions

Xavi Manresa established Cap-Cap Produccions in 1988, driven by his passion for bringing punk, hardcore, and alternative music to the forefront of the Iberian peninsula’s live music scene.

Toutpartout

Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, Toutpartout began life in the bedroom of Steve Thomassen when he was in his final year of a visual arts degree at university, with his mother acting as his secretary.

Bird On The Wire

Bird On The Wire was conceived by Clémence Godard and Tim Palmer in 2009, who met at a concert at the now closed Bardens Boudoir in London.

Primary Talent International

Celebrating its 34th year in the agency business, Primary Talent International boasts an eclectic roster of over 450 clients spanning all genres.

Destroy All Lines

Destroy All Lines was formed 20 years ago, but up until 2016 was primarily a nightclub promoter that actively toured around ten artists a year.

Runway Artists

Having been made redundant by ATC Live early on in the pandemic, Matt Hanner persuaded a handful of his clients to take a punt on him going solo.

Untitled Group

Identifying a gap in the market, music entrepreneurs Michael Christidis, Christian Serrao, Filippo Palermo, and Nicholas Greco self-funded the first Beyond The Valley festival in 2014.

Move Concerts

Move Concerts was formed ten years ago in what was essentially a rebranding and restructuring of promoter Phil Rodriguez’s various enterprises, Water Brother Productions, Evenpro Group, and XYZ.

Marauder

Rev. Moose and his partners formed Marauder in 2015 “to work with people in music who fell between the cracks of the existing American industry.”

Gérard Drouot Productions

Founded by Gérard Drouot in 1986, Gérard Drouot Productions (GDP) has become a pillar of concert production in the French music industry.

Fource

Anthony Jouet founded Fource in 2011, after finding himself working in Prague as a consultant in-house promoter at the city’s O2 Arena.

Greenhouse Talent

Founded by Pascal Van De Velde in 2005, Greenhouse Talent has become the largest indie concert promoter in Benelux, with 50 employees across Belgium and The Netherlands organising around 1,500 events annually.

Crosstown Concerts

With 19 full-time staff across Bristol, London, Cardiff, and Oxford, and dozens of freelancers, Crosstown has organised around 600 shows this year.

LS Events

Launched in 2004 by Jim King and later joined by Dave Grindle, Loud Sound made its name in the UK festival industry.

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