EMI Music launches a new live music recording and production service through Abbey Road
EMI Music is launching a new live music recording and instant production service, Abbey Road Live, enabling live music fans the opportunity to instantly purchase high quality live recordings of shows they have just attended. Mixed and mastered on site by a dedicated crew of experts, the recordings will be made available in a range of formats including CD, DVD and USBs or via secure digital delivery to home computers or mobile handsets as streams or downloads.
The service is going to now be offered through Abbey Road and expands upon the success of Live Here Now which was established in 2004 by Mute Records, an EMI label. Live Here Now has produced and sold instant live recordings for artists such as Blur and their highly acclaimed reunion concerts in London’s Hyde Park in July; for Depeche Mode on both its current and 2006 global tours; Franz Ferdinand, for several UK dates this summer; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live at Royal Albert Hall; The Pixies for their recent European tour; as well as for Goldfrapp, Moby, Status Quo and The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Simon Miller, Senior Vice President of New Product Development and Live at EMI, said: “We’re offering fans the ultimate encore. Being able to take home high quality recordings of a show they’ve just seen is something we’re seeing great demand for from music lovers and it’s also a service that artists and labels are very interested in. Abbey Road Live takes the excellent standards, technology and expertise of the legendary Abbey Road Studios and brings them to the live music arena to offer a compelling new proposition for fans and an excellent service for artists, promoters and venues. For Abbey Road Live, we have set the same high benchmark for quality and innovation as the Studios have consistently delivered over the years.”
