Ticketmaster Conducts Premium Ticket Auction for Ricky Gervais Benefiting Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy

Ticketmaster Conducts Premium Ticket Auction for Ricky Gervais Benefiting Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy

LONDON, June 12/PRNewswire/ --

- Fans may now bid for Front row Seats for Ricky Gervais on the 26th
August at Edinburgh Castle

Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and Ticketmaster, the world's
leading ticketing company, are working together to offer online Ticket
Auctions with a portion of the proceeds of the sale benefiting the charity.
The first auction is for Ricky Gervais at Edinburgh Castle on 26th August.
Fans of Ricky Gervais now have the chance to bid for front row seats at
Ticketmaster.co.uk until the auction closes on Monday 25th June at 4pm.

Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy is the UK's largest specialist
music therapy charity, providing over 30,000 therapy sessions a year through
its centre in London and 50 outreach projects nationwide. Nordoff-Robbins
Music Therapy uses live musical improvisation to help improve the quality of
life for children and adults isolated by conditions such as learning
disabilities, autism, mental health problems, neurological damage or serious
and terminal illness. It receives no statutory funding and needs to raise
almost GBP3m a year to operate. Of this, 85p in every GBP1 raised goes to
music therapy.

Audrey Hoare, Director of Fundraising for Nordoff-Robbins
Music Therapy said, "Participating in this Ticketmaster Auction is a great
way for people to support Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. The auction winners
will enjoy great tickets to this event, whilst helping support the valuable
work of the charity. We are delighted to be working with Ticketmaster on this
project as we believe it is a great way for more people to find out about our
work. We look forward to announcing more ticket auctions across the rest of
the year".

Ticketmaster has been conducting auctions on behalf of its
venue, promoter and sports team clients in the UK since May 2006.
Ticketmaster auctions provide opportunities for performers and venues to
connect with their fans, in a secure purchasing environment, fully integrated
with Ticketmaster's state-of-the-art ticketing system. By enabling consumers
to select the price he or she is willing to pay for a ticket in a specified
seat location for a specific event, Ticketmaster auctions help Ticketmaster's
clients retain their ticket sales revenue that otherwise may go to
un-authorised resellers. Ticketmaster clients may also use online auctions to
direct proceeds to a charity of their choice. Ticketmaster auctions also
offer consumers the security of knowing they have purchased a valid ticket.

Chris Edmonds, Managing Director, Ticketmaster UK added, "I am
a great admirer of the work of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. Through this
alliance, we aim to help raise funds that will benefit the charity and
increase awareness of their amazing work across the UK. Event-authorised
ticket auctions conducted through Ticketmaster.co.uk are beneficial for fans,
charitable causes and also a great advert for the event industry. We look
forward to the support of our clients to enable us to provide our ticket
auction service across other great events for this worthy charity".

About Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company,
operating in 20 global markets, providing ticket sales, ticket resale
services, marketing and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com, one of the
largest e-commerce sites on the Internet, and international Web sites
including Ticketmaster.co.uk; approximately 6,500 retail outlets; and 20
worldwide call centres. Ticketmaster celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006
and currently serves more than 9,000 clients worldwide across multiple event
categories, providing exclusive ticketing services for hundreds of leading
arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, museums, and theatres. In 2006, the
company sold more than 128 million tickets valued at over US$7 billion on
behalf of its clients. Ticketmaster is headquartered in West Hollywood,
California and is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).

About Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy

Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy is the UK's largest specialist
music therapy charity, providing over 30,000 therapy sessions a year through
its National Centre in London and over 40 outreach projects nationwide. It
also runs postgraduate training programmes in music therapy and a research
programme with regular public courses and conferences. Nordoff-Robbins Music
Therapy receives no statutory funding and needs to raise almost GBP3m a year
to operate. Of this, 85p in every GBP1 raised goes to music therapy.
Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy uses musical co-improvisation to help improve
the quality of life for children and adults isolated by conditions such as
learning disabilities, autism, mental health problems, neurological damage or
serious and terminal illness. The Nordoff-Robbins approach to music therapy
developed from the pioneering work of Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins in the
1950/60s. Paul was a composer and pianist who devoted part of his life to
working with people with disabilities and Clive was a special needs teacher.
It is grounded in the belief that everyone can respond to music, no matter
how ill or disabled. The unique qualities of music as therapy can enhance
communication, support change, and enable people to live more resourcefully
and creatively. For more information go to www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk

Source: Ticketmaster UK Ltd

For more information on Ticketmaster: Rosie Hills, PR and Communications Manager, Phone: +44-(0)207-344-4000, email: rosie.hills@ticketmaster.co.uk. For more information on Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy: Joe Meaney, email: joe@nrfr.co.uk

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