Press Release as received from City of London Police

Action Fraud warning as victims lose average of £365 to ticket fraud

Between 1 April 2018 and 30 April 2019, Action Fraud received 4,755 reports of ticket fraud. The total reported losses to victims was £1,654,888: an average of £365 per victim. With lots of music concerts and sporting events taking place in summer, it is an opportunity for fraudsters to take advantage of unsuspecting fans. New awareness campaign launched with Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers (STAR) to encourage informed purchases from authorised sellers.

Action Fraud is partnering with the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers (STAR) to urge people to avoid fraud by taking more care when buying tickets for live events.

Fraudsters will pose as a website or agent for a music concert or festival, a sporting contest, or a live comedian or performer, meaning victims will purchase tickets that either don’t arrive or turn out to be fake. So, consumers should always check the contact details of the site they’re buying the tickets from.

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EMERGENCE June 30th 2019

NU Sounds are emerging…
13 June 2019

presents…

30TH JUNE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 23RD NOVEMBER
3PM – 10PM
The Cockpit, Gateforth St, NW8 8EH

£8 advance, £10 on door

http://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/emergence

Nu London Jazz all dayer for musicians, sonic artists, producers, cross-arts collaborators and audiences

Produced and Presented by The Cockpit /Jazz In The Round

Presenting: JUNGLE BROWN + CLARA SERRA LOPEZ (LUDI’S EYE) + MA + JACK FOSTER (DJ)

Emergence happens in the round – and with the seats taken out. It offers a time and a space for players, artists and audiences to come together around a standing, dance-friendly all dayer event where we can meet, experiment and make the right mistakes. Come through…

SUNDAY 30TH JUNE – LINE UP
With Jungle Brown, Jack Foster (DJ), Clara Serra López and MA

Jungle Brown – presented by Lyrix Organix

Jungle Brown drop their Tribe Called Quest-esque sound with future rap, adorned with a smooth sax line from UK jazz all-star, Ayo Yung Afrika Pyoneer, and backing vocals from Jungle Brown’s own producer, Tony Bones.

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Empowering a generation of female producers Town Hall Symphony Hall and Cubepresent a FREE six week music production course with Emmavie.

Earlier this year, Town Hall Symphony Hall and CUBE presented a six week music production course designed for female producers from Birmingham.

A recent report titled Inclusion in the Recording Studio – the second annual report from Professor Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to investigate the music industry – highlighted that only 2 percent of producers across 400 songs were female. For producers, this translates into a gender ratio of 47 males to every one female. 

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He is best known as a stargazer but as he prepares to tread the boards in the musical Hairspray, Russell Grant reveals his first love was always the stage.

Theatre-trained Russell, 68, who undergoes a dramatic transformation to play Edna Turnblad, said that acting is “where my heart is, it’s my passion”. 

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Man sentenced for over £500,000 of karaoke copyright offences
This press release is from City of London Police

Steve Mather, 63, of Beaufort Street, Rochdale, Lancashire, has been sentenced to eight months suspended at Manchester Crown Court. He pleaded guilty to copyright offences for illegally creating and distributing karaoke tracks online without permission. Digitop have estimated their loss to be £485,000, while Sunfly Karaoke Ltd’s loss is projected to be £29,593.50

In 2015, the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) received a referral from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) when one of their members, Digitop Ltd, became aware of online accounts called KaraokeRG and Karaokekid. These accounts were making torrented karaoke tracks available to the public without permission from the rights holders, Digitop and Sunfly Karaoke Ltd.

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