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When the equipment of keyboardist Roger O'Donnell stops functioning during The Cure's appearance at The BBK Festival Bilbao, Spain, Europe, leader Robert Smith takes the stage and plays a short three-song acoustic set while repairs are effected. The full band then delivers a hit-strewn 38-song set, including The Lovecats, Just Like Heaven and Why Can't I Be You?.
Nanci Griffith plays at the Vilar Performing Arts Center (VPAC), in Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA.
On their Fallen Empires tour, Snow Patrol play at Bilbao BBK Live, Kobetamendi, Bilbao, Spain, Europe.On her World Tour 2012, Madonna plays at The Stade Roi-Baudouin, Brussels, Belgium, Europe.
Ed Sheeran plays to 8,000 fans at High Lodge, Thetford Forest, England, UK, Europe.
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Canada's Supreme Court ends the collection [by Canada's performing rights society SOCAN] of fees for music downloaded via the internet. The court rules that downloading is merely a delivery mechanism, much like a courier, and does not justify a performance fee. The court states, however, that music streamed from a website constitutes a performance and therefore fees must continue to be paid.UK singer Tulisa Contostavlos wins an action in the High Court, London, UK, against her former boyfriend MC Ultra [real name Justin Edwards] and receives a full apology from him for his part in making a six-minute-long sex tape of the couple available on the internet.