(Left to Right) Emma Bownes Senior Vice President, Venue Programming at AEG Europe, Mark Davyd, CEO of Music Venue Trust and Jane Beese, Director of Music, Factory International and Music Venue Trust ...

Academy Music Group (AMG), one of the U.K.'s leading chains of live-music venues and clubs, is renaming and rebranding its 11 facilities from Jan. 1 when they will each be called the O2 Academy. By ...

The O2 and Music Venue Trust have announced a commitment formally recognising the role of grassroots music venues in creating future headliners within the UK’s live music scene. The three-year ...

The O2 has delivered another consecutive record-breaking year, hosting 239 arena performances in 2025, a 19% increase on 2024. The live entertainment venue, owned and operated by AEG, reported that ...

Donations will be made each time a grassroots performer headlines the O2 for the first time (Picture: Getty) Grassroots music in London just got a major boost, as the O2 announced direct donations to ...

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London’s O2 Arena has pledged to donate to Music Venue Trust (MVT) each time a new artist headlines the venue in an effort to support grassroots music. The initiative was announced over the weekend, ...

Rebecca Kane, gm of London’s O2, confesses she’s amused and surprised – not that the entertainment complex she runs on the Greenwich peninsula has rewritten the live-music record book, but that… By ...