Sunday Interview: This industry is like the Hotel California: you can check out, but you can never leave

Almost 50 years ago, Tommy Higgins opened his first record store in Galway. His love for music has taken him from vinyl to Spotify with everything in between, and he’s still going strong

CV: Tommy Higgins

Role: chairman, Accent Media

Age: 67

Family: wife Eileen, two daughters

Hobbies: skiing, walking

The entertainment business has not really changed much over the past two millennia, at least according to Tommy Higgins, the founder of Ticketmaster in Ireland.

Higgins came to this conclusion as he found himself contemplating the future of the music industry at an opera in Verona. “The venue is 2,000 years old, it was only rebuilt ...