SINGAPORE – Mr Romell Song, 45, is the chief operating officer of live entertainment company IMC Group Asia, which stages concerts and music events. Headquartered in Singapore, it also manages live venues Capitol Theatre and *Scape The Ground Theatre.
What we lost in the last two years was time.
IMC had anchored our business in China since its founding in 2008, but in 2018, the company took a strategic decision to move our headquarters to Singapore to position ourselves as a more Asia-centric company.
Just as we were about to launch our activities from Singapore, including the One Love Asia Festival – what was to be one of Asia’s largest music and lifestyle festivals – Covid-19 struck.
The world literally went into lockdown and the live music entertainment industry suffered an unprecedented impact.
Now we are two years behind.
We were committed to keeping everyone on payroll,…
