Brent Eccles: Rock Stardom, Ruthless Deals & the Truth About the Concert Business

Brent Eccles has spent more than 50 years in the music business, both on and off stage.

He played drums in the iconic Australian rock band, The Angels. Then at 45 years old he came home to New Zealand and became one of our most successful and respected concert promoters.

Brent has played drums onstage with Guns N’ Roses, lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on concerts, sold 50,000 tickets to SIX60 in minutes and, during Covid, was officially ranked the number one concert promoter in the world. We talk about all this stuff in the podcast- the good the bad and the ugly.

He also has a reputation for being quite intimidating. We address that as well! 

But underneath all that is a bloke who absolutely loves music, loves New Zealand and, more than anything, loves and wants to protect his family.

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