[excerpt from Otago Daily Times article about promoters] 4/11/2015
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/33...full-attention
The sound of silence was eventually broken by Paul Simon and Aerosmith in 2013, but not before DVML found itself in a legal dispute with another promoter, McManus Entertainment.
The company had planned to follow up Aerosmith's show with
Fleetwood Mac later the same year, as part of a two-show deal signed with DVML.
The deal collapsed when Fleetwood Mac committed to Live Nation instead.
McManus Entertainment managing director Andrew McManus slammed DVML's decision to try to charge a $50,000 cancellation fee.
''I guarantee you I will never, ever bring another show to Dunedin while those people are in charge,'' he said at the time.
The fee was eventually reduced to $15,000, but the dispute added up to a seemingly fractious relationship between the company tasked with securing big concerts for the stadium and the promoters capable of delivering them.