07/11/2023
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Who are we? What are we?
Intevco (International Event Consultants) are a team of 6 that work from
Manilva on international music concerts, festivals and events. The office is headed up by Zane
who has been in the event and music business for 35 years. Starting at 18 in the box office in
London’s West End Theatre in the 80’s he worked his way up to theatre management and then
transversed to music tour management, festival management and concert promoting. During
this time he has held director positions at AEG Presents, the 2nd largest global music promoter
and Robomagic Live, a smaller more independent outfit that focuses on the carrerr needs of
the artists, not just the commercial results.
On behalf of various companies Zane has promoted and managed 100’s of events and tours,
including:
Justin Timberlake UK and Europe, Destinys Child UK and Europe, Beyonce UK Tour, Kanye West,
Usher, 50 Cent, Britney Spears, Leonard Cohen – Global, Justin Bieber, Duran Duran, Bon Jovi –
Global.... The list goes on!
Festivals worked include ; Glastonbury – head of ticketing and gate, which included the
creation of the first ever tout proof ticket. Reading and Leeds Festival. Latitude Festival.
Creamfields plus many more.
This last Summer 2023 Zane and the team in Manilva were involved as promoters for:
Burna Boy - London Stadium 60,000 sell out
The Who – 15 date tour
Rod Stewart - 8 date tour
Duran Duran - 8 arena shows
Kiss - 6 Arean shows
A R Rahman - The 02
And most recently a one off gig with Robert Plant and Andy Taylor at Soho Farmhouse.
Roles that Zane and team cover include:
Tour planning including; budgeting, tour routing, sell offs to local promoters, preparation of
business plans for artist management, venue negotiation and contracting, artist contracting,
launch and PR plans, management of ticketing managers and departments , management of
production department, analysis of sales against business plans, review of distressed shows
and the implementation of solutions, preparation and presentation of settlements to artist and
venues.
For independent festivals and one-off events we will also cover event management
(advancement and on site), site planning, health and safety, staff training, licensing, artist
liasion and security implementation.
Next year we are already planning tours for Jennifer Lopez and Burna Boy.
TicketingTom.com is a branded department within Intevco that offers Ticket
Consultation services to promoters and producers. This is the most important department for
events - it brings in 90% of the money! Yet given its importance it is often overlooked with
post-grads preferring careers in marketing or production.
Ticketing at international tour level is multi layered and is not a simple case of calling
Ticketmaster and asking them to put 1000 tickets on sale. The ticket manager researches
pricing and current market trends to create acceptable price scales in line with the grosses
required by the artist. They need to ‘manifest’ the venue, and when you are talking 90,000 seat
stadiums this is no easy task!
In the UK up to 10 ticket agents can be selling one gig and each agent will have their own deal
to be dealt. It is us the ticket managers that supervise all these agents ensuring the inventory is
despatch and moved to where the demand dictates and that the agents are selling efficiently
and within the terms of the event detail and contract. In essence we are the managers of
Ticketmaster.
With every seat / ticket being worth up to £100,’s tight audits need to be established and sold
and unsold tickets have to be proven to the artist managers on the night of the event. Setting
up an event for on-sale has to be carried out scientifically, with accurate information. When
you are dealing with the most famous singers on the planet everything must be approved and
agreed.
The robustness of the agents tech must be monitored – think Taylor Swift and Ticketmaster
and the disaster when Ticketmaster could not cope and collapsed. An agent that collapses at
on-sale can cost a promoter millions of ££’s!
If tickets don’t sell immediately then the ticketing department need to ensure that every angle
of promotion and ticket marketing is covered, that distribution of tickets to retailers is as wide
as possible and that the venue looks great even when only half sold.
For international tours we also manage the local promoters in other countries and ensure that
accurate sales reports are provided and manifests are accurate and auditable.
Then on the event day we work with each venue box office to ensure that people can enter the
building as smoothly as possible and that the tech of those 10 agents are able to talk to each
other and produce accurate auditable reports whilst talking to the scanners on the gates.
Post event we ensure money is accounted for against absolutely every ticket sold, and prepare
box office settlement reports which are provided to the promtoer and the band management /
artist.
Ticketingtom.com is lead by Tom McNeil here in Manilva, and supported by Cat, Sonia
and Debbie. We are highly regarded by promoters in the music industry and last year we were
requested to travel to LA to Ticket Manage Kanye West at Los Angeles Stadium, (which was
announced just 2 weeks before the event, a real white knuckle ride), we travelled to NY to
ticket manage Harry Styles arena show, and to Luke Combes in North Caroline... plus many
other trips far and wide.
On the agenda for next year is Queen – Global Dates, Metallica – Global dates, and WWE
European dates. We also provide our services to Blast gaming events around the world and we
manage the ticketing for the BBC David Attenborough Earth show in London.
So ... Why Manilva?
Our work is UK / USA centric, in that most of our clients are based there, or USA. A point to
note is that we actualy do very few Spanish shows!
Zane tried to semi-retire 7 years ago and moved to his holiday home here. Then what started
out as helping out from home on a few international projects became a full time business
needing the assistance of 5 others. Our office is a 3 bedroomed town house that we rent in
Manilva.
What are we looking for?
A person that is hungry to build a career in the business side of event management. Who
understand that commitment and self investment is required to get ahead in this
oversubscribed industry. They need to understand that the event world does not close at 6pm
each evening. This person needs to be dedicated to work up from the ground, training in
ticketing, tour preparation, budgeting, event management, contracting, tour marketing and PR,
artist liaison.
Internship Details
tbc
Research
Our website Ticketingtom.com
We are currently building a website for Intevco. Up until now noen was needed as all work
goes to Zane simply via reference, relationship and reputation.
Client research
Rob Hallet of Robomagic
Live Nation UK
AEG Presents
Festival Republic
BBC Earth
Blast
The Concert Platform
Apple Live
SIS Alumni, if you are interested contact [email protected]
