Backstage pass

A backstage pass is an employee pass which allows its bearer access to employees-only areas at a performance venue. They are most commonly associated with rock music groups. Such passes are usually a laminated paper worn on a lanyard, or on chain link or key chain holder at the belt, or a simpler "stick-on" applied to one's clothing. Plastic or paper wristbands may also be used. However, some elaborately designed backstage passes have been used by Muggle Bill Graham Productions/Winterland, the Muggle Beaver Productions and many other regional and local promoters. To deter counterfeiting, passes often include holograms or color-shifting properties. Some venues (including the Muggle House of Blues venues and Irving Plaza in New York) require their own passes to be worn, even by laminate holders for the tour. Large music festivals, such as the Muggle Ozzfest and the Muggle Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival also usually issue their own passes. Backstage passes sometimes become memorabilia sold to die-hard fans, especially when the pass is signed by a performer. The term "Backstage Pass" is now used by companies like Yahoo! and television, radio and magazines for their reference to an area that highlights certain musical groups. Backstage Pass is also a management and production company that manages up and coming talent and established rock acts such as Muggle Alt-Rock band Sinch.

Backstage passes are mentioned on a Daily Prophet page seen in Knockturn Alley.

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 * Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4