These new claims mainly centred on a former Crowdsurge employee who had subsequently joined Ticketmaster. The additions were mainly new allegations made by Songkick that staff at Ticketmaster stole trade secrets from the start-up and used them to develop its own rival service. The original lawsuit has since been both streamlined and extended.

The key allegation was Live Nation – as a concert promoter, venue operator, artist manager and Ticketmaster owner – was exploiting its market dominance to stop artists from working with Songkick on ticket pre-sales to fan club members.

So that’s fun.Īs much previously reported, the Songkick company – which combined the original Songkick gig recommendations service and the Crowdsurge direct-to-fan ticketing platform – sued Live Nation in 2015 accusing the live music major of anti-competitive behaviour. In the absence of full-on fisticuffs (well, courtroom action), Ticket News has unearthed some emails among the evidence amassed in the case where Live Nation execs call Adele’s team “pigs”. Those of you wondering what had happened to the big Songkick v Live Nation fist fight that was due to get going in the US courts this month, well, the judge overseeing the case seemingly agreed to push the proceedings back into the new year because of delays in the discovery process meaning both sides wanted more time to prepare. Business News Legal Live Business Emails in Songkick case see Live Nation dissing Team Adele By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 14 November 2017

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