Live Nation Australia & New Zealand president and CEO – and a respected promoter in his own right – Michael Coppel is cautious about re-entering the festival market after his split with V Festival in 2009. 

Coppel worked with Virgin on V Festival under his own company Michael Coppel Presents and later became head of Live Nation’s Australasian operation when the US live company bought his firm.

Coppel has since showed some interest in working the festival scene himself again ...