Pictured for last year’s launch: Abbie Panks, Lord Tom Raynham, Gilly the dog, Samira Williams, Sam Booker and Tom Branston. Credit- Eastern Daily Press The first ever Wide Skies and…
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Tomorrowland, adidas, the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) and Tomorrowland have joined forces to present a LOVE capsule collection designed to reach football and festival fans around the world. The collection…
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New AIF Chair, Matthew Phillip The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has appointed Notting Hill Carnival CEO Matthew Phillip as its new Chair. Phillip is the CEO of Carnival Village…
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EXIT Festival, the two-time winner of Best Major European Festival, will be the first major music event in the world to use blockchain technology to sell NFT tickets for a…
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Beat-Herder Festival has sold out for the fifteenth consecutive year. After a tough two-year hiatus, with heart-breaking beck-to-back postponements, the festival is back for its very first four-day event (14-17 July) celebrating its…
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The Ethernyum Project will hold a FESTIVAL MILLENNIUM, one of the biggest music events ever produced in Brazil, with an innovative, thematic, and scenographic concept inspired by the old and…
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The UK Music Workforce Diversity Survey tracks progress to boost diversity and inclusion in the UK’s music industry. Led by UK Music’s Diversity Taskforce, the survey focuses on those who…
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Free, self-service XR creation platform Volta XR is to play a vital role in heightening the experience of many festival goers at this year’s Glastonbury. Already being used by artists…
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IAM Entertainment co-founder, Sonal Vara-Parmar A consortium of investors led by Abbey Road Investment Group agrees funding for IAM Entertainment, to fuel new inflow of live shows, movie & TV…
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In a valiant attempt to make insurance interesting, musical and musician insurers, Insure4Music analysed some data recently and found that Glastonbury tickets could cost more than £78,000 by 2072. Already…
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The founders of soon-to-be-launched All Access Anonymous are claiming that they will bring new transparency, funding, and structure to independent promoters, whom they believe to be the true creators of…
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MDLBeast Strategy Director, Nada Alhelabi From zero to several hundred thousand in one event in 2019 is an impressive start, but Soundstorm has provided the means for promoters MDLBeast to…
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Organisers of Swindon’s Mfor Festival today announced the postponement of the2022 event. “The festival, scheduled for 29th and 30th July 2022 has been hit by the cost-of-livingcrisis and the event…
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Festival Republic have announced that they are to fund a new research project within Music Declares Emergency. The project aims to drive grid connections to UK festivals and begin the transition…
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Cellar Door Moon Crow. Phil (L) and Tommy (R). Download gave us the chance to chat with Cellar Door Moon Crow about 2022, all it has brought so far and…
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International music festival, HebCelt, has announced its 25th anniversary event will be significantly powered by locally-produced green hydrogen. The Islands Stage in the main arena area will use the zero-emissions…
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With the summer festival season fully underway, the ESNS Exchange results provide an overview of the most promising European emerging acts of the moment. ESNS Exchange, the European talent exchange…
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Groundbreaking music festival Cro Cro Land returns after a two-year hiatus to bring its signature mash-up of queer, non-binary, and straight artists to Croydon, with gender equality at its heart. …
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Kiss’s final UK show, Iron Maiden’s masterclass and a Sunday headline set from Biffy Clyro were the headline grabbers, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, an hour of pure, unadulterated rock…
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After a two-year gap due to the pandemic, the popular music festival Test Fest is back! Event organisers It’s in the Bag are getting ready for this brilliant festival which…
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Mustard MD Robert Masterson, before ordering reinforced brackets for awards shelf. Following on from their hat trick success at the Eventex Awards, Mustard Media have won the Best use of…
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A music charity created to improve access to the music industry for young people in the Highlands and Islands has announced its sponsorship of a stage at the growing music…
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UK Music is supporting Counter Terrorism Policing’s initiative this summer to help music fans enjoy gigs and events this summer. The #BeSafeBeSound campaign was created in 2019 with the aim…
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The world is full of rags to riches stories, but in the world of festivals, there are perhaps more stories of fortunes heading the other direction. As the classic gag…
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Not Rhyll BeOn1x Open Mind Music Festival, is set to change the musical landscape of Cyprus forever, with its much anticipated initial events from 23rd – 25th September and 30th…
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People not actually getting on a train. Photo by Ant Rozetsky @ Unsplash Unless you were stuck in a foreign airport with a suntan and a dead mobile, you’ll have…
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Not a festival, but definitely an entertainment venue striving to lower its environmental impact, The O2, which is owned and operated by AEG Europe, has today announced a series of…
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Respected music industry educators Remi Harris and Tamara Gal-On are delighted to announce the latest iteration of their hugely successful women’s leadership development programme, the Music Leaders Network. Beginning in…
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In what they describe as an historic moment for the e-ticketing industry, scalable and boutique ticketing solution XTIXS in partnership with GET Protocol today announced a new, disruptive decentralised finance (DeFi) funded event when…
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After 7 years with PlayPass (merged with Weezevent in 2020) and a decade pushing RFID cashlesswristband technology into the festival market, Festival Awards co-founder Jenner has launched his own venture…
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The Author – Mitchell Bayer-Goldman Mitchell Bayer-Goldman is Co-founder and COO of Volta XR, here he he discusses how performances can be enhanced by the application of existing technology. Festival…
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ADE 2021 Amsterdam Dance Event and gobal early-stage venture capital investor Antler join forces to launch a competition in which the most innovative startup is worth a €100K investment plus…
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Other worlds are available. Set to launch later in 2022, CyberLive is, according to its founders, here to change the future of live online entertainment. Its unique CyberLive Coin ($CYLIV)…
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Dave, one of many artists helped by the PRS Foundation. The Featured artists Coalition (FAC) has launched a petition to urge UK collecting society, PRS for Music to reconsider its…
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NTIA head, Michael Kill. NTIA Survey Shows Devastating Impact of Cost Inflation on Night Time Economy Businesses Following extensive research carried out by the NTIA into over 200 businesses within…
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As some festivals return for the first time in two years, it’s important to consider how you can support your favourite festival and the environment, while still enjoying your weekend.…
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The NTIA Board recently unanimously appointed Sacha Lord, Night Time Economy Advisor for Greater Manchester and Co-Founder of Parklife and The Warehouse Project, as Chair of the Board of Directors.…
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MPs and Peers have elected Kevin Brennan MP as the new Chair of the influential All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Music. With more than 100 members, the group is one…
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When it comes to planning any kind of event, there is a lot for you to think about. Whilst you might be thinking about refreshments, music, and décor, how much…
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Festival Insights NEWS: Government Publishes Response to Spiking Report, NTIA & UKDSA Comment.
Pic: Scott Warman@Unsplash The Home Affairs Committee publishes the Government’s response to its report on spiking. The report warned that spiking would remain an invisible crime unless more was done…
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