It’s (almost) official – indoor gigs are dead…
It’s pretty much official. As long as the Covid social distancing rules stay in place live music is pretty much dead – at least as far as indoor events are…
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Festival Insights NEWS: Concert touring industry unites to launch COVID-19 working guidance
Download the full guide Professionals from across the global concert touring industry have joined forces to form the PSA Tour Production Group (PSA TPG), in order to provide a unified…
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Festival Insights NEWS: Festival-goers offer lifeline to organisers as majority plan to re-book tickets for next year
An overwhelming majority of festival-goers who have received refunds on their tickets for 2020 say they will rebook tickets for next year, new research commissioned by UK Festival Awards and Brothers Drinks reveals. Before…
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Festival Insights NEWS: Putting Festival Sustainability Back on the Agenda
Chris Johnson serves as the co-founder, Operations Director and Sustainability Lead for award-winning festival Shambala as well as the co-founder of Powerful Thinking, the UK’s event industry Think-Do Tank on Sustainable Energy…
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Festival Insights NEWS: EVENTS 4 COVID 19 – North West latest
The Covid19 virus had a devastating impact on the events industry and its suppliers in the North-West. Many companies have had to postpone or cancel their events and the industry…
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Festival Insights NEWS: Insights from the nighttime industry on COVID-19
These are incredible times. With such times, there are understandably many vital questions. As many in government, the media and commentators have put forward, rather than there being ‘the answer’…
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Festival Insights NEWS: People Powered UK launched to support NHS
People Powered UK was formed to provide support to the NHS, including in ITUs (intensive treatment units) where the need is greatest, to relieve pressure on the health service and…
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Festival Insights NEWS: Events 4 COVID-19 launched to support during pandemic
‘Events 4 Covid 19’, based in the North West aims to connect event industry resources to support those on the frontline by lending their equipment and expertise to health workers…
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Festival Insights NEWS: AIM launches immediate access crisis fund for independent music contractors
AIM has launched a support fund aimed at contractors and freelance workers in the independent music industry whose source of income has been severed without warning due to lost work in April…
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Festival Insights NEWS: IMPALA launches website to map COVID-19 support for music sector
Following the publication of its ten point COVID-19 crisis plan last month, IMPALA has now launched a new website offering an overview of action being taken across Europe to address the impact…
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