A Cornwall music venue that has staged performances by artists including Paul Weller, Fatboy Slim and McFly is taking part of Live Nation to the High Court in a claim for more than £1 million.
The Wyldes near Bude, which is run by WV Leisure, alleges the company did not put on enough concerts at the site.
According to High Court documents, it signed a deal with Live Nation Music UK, which is part of Live Nation Entertainment, in 2023.
Under the agreement, Live Nation Music UK was to produce at least eight concerts a year at the site for five years from 2024.
In return, the company was to receive a £250,000 fee and commission on ticket sales.
The firm's lawyers claim Live Nation produced only six concerts in 2024, including shows by Simple Minds, Anne-Marie and James Arthur, before ending the deal last year.
WV Leisure is now seeking at least £1,007,789.97 in damages for breach of contract.
Live Nation has been approached for comment. A defence to the claim has yet to be filed by the company.
Barrister Oliver Phillips, for WV Leisure, said that as well as failing to produce the number of concerts required under the deal, Live Nation also failed to produce and promote them with “reasonable care and skill”.
He said that this included booking Simple Minds and Anne-Marie on consecutive nights in June 2024, despite it being “necessary to select and book artists with similar fanbases for sequential nights in order to attract audience members who would wish to attend both concerts”.
Live Nation also booked Jess Glynne and James Arthur back to back in the same month “despite there being little or no overlap between the target audience for those two artists”, the barrister continued.
Mr Phillips added that Live Nation “failed to run any sufficient national marketing campaign in respect of the site alongside the promotion of the individual music concerts” and allowed “insufficient time” for them to be promoted.
He said: “As a result, ticket sales on launch, which is the time of the highest ticket sales, were lower than they would have been if the launch had been handled properly, and it was more difficult thereafter to sell tickets to make up for the slow start.”
Mr Phillips continued that the concerts made a “substantial loss” of around £850,000 but “would have been profitable overall” if Live Nation had “performed its obligations”.
A hearing in the claim has not yet taken place.
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