This is the eleventh edition of The Delicates' Lounge - a podcast for all us music event tourists who love to be where the action is and occasionally like to grumble about having to queue for our passes or a beer or to get into a venue. You know, all things that we missed for so long during the pandemic (remember that?).

Now and again we’ll get together with a handful of delicate delegates at one of the many events we love to go to.

This time we're joined by: head of Bella Union, Cocteau Twins bassist, & author Simon Raymonde; the busy MD of ESNS Anna van Nunen; Canada's NXNE legend Brian Hetherman; Linnéa Svensson of Greener Events; Pollstar's Brij Gosai; Guna Zučika of Every Little Thing & Riga Music Week; & c/o Pop's Ralph Christoph.

We talked about our experiences at this year's Eurosonic, as it celebrates its 40th year anniversary, as well as all the projects we are working on.

We recorded this conversation during Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen, Netherlands on Thursday 15th & Friday 16th January, 2026.

A huge thank you to the very helpful Eurosonic conference team - especially Frank Janssen & Eveline van der Sijde - for bringing us to their event and providing us with the lovely space to set up our little studio.

For further information about some of the things & people mentioned in this episode:

Linnéa Svensson - Greener Events

Brij Gosai - Pollstar

Simon Raymonde - Bella Union / In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor and Me

Anna van Nunen - ESNS

Brian Hetherman - NXNE

Guna Zučika - Riga Music Week

Ralph Christoph - c/o Pop Convention

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