Vince Power Posts Statement In Response To Live Music Ban
Friday, 01 August 2014
Written by Huw Baines
Vince Power has released a statement in response to news that he has been banned from staging live music events.
Representatives for the promoter, responsible for founding the Hop Farm festival, took to Facebook to offer a reply to this morning’s BBC report on the decision.
The BBC noted that Power’s ban, brought about by a High Court judgement following a claim from the Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS) that Power did not have the correct licence in place for events between 2009 and 2012, will be enforced until he updates his licence, while he has also been ordered to pay £7,987 in costs.
The statement reads:
On Friday 1st August BBC news published a news piece detailing that Vince Power is banned from staging live music events due to outstanding licence costs for PRS.
Vince would like to state that he has not had any correspondence from PRS regarding this situation and was surprised to read about these supposed outstanding fees of £7,987, this is miniscule compared to the amount of money paid to PRS over the years by Vince Power and companies.
If there was any money outstanding to PRS, this would have been dealt with by the administrators for Music Festivals PLC which went into administration in October 2012; PRS were notified.
We would also like to say, that the most recent Hop Farm had nothing to do with Vince Power, or any of his companies. This was hijacked by another promoter, which used all previous Hop Farm logos and databases, Vince had no responsibility or involvement in this 2014 event.
Speaking to Vince he explained “I am angry and disappointed that PRS have not contacted me by post, email or telephone. To say that I am banned from staging live music events for the sake of 7k, is damaging to my career. In light of the long strained relationship I have with them, I can only see this as PRS being vindictive and a means of deflection for what I see as the real problem within PRS; They have a long list of artists that are owed money which they do not pay. I am very happy for any Artists who have been chasing PRS unsuccessfully to contact me to see if there is a way we can group together and get the money they are owed.”
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