The Yorkshire Dales Food & Drink Festival, the UK’s biggest weekend food festival, has today announced it is expanding its 2024 line-up to include chart-topping music acts who will join its stellar line up of celebrity chefs. The festival takes place between 19th-21st July 2024 at Funkirk Farm, Skipton. The family-run festival has upped the tempo, evolving…
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The Levellers Pic: The Levellers English folk rock band Levellers have been announced as the first headliners for next year’s Little Orchard Cider & Music Festival, taking place at Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm from 13 to 15 September 2024. Now in its eleventh year, Little Orchard Cider & Music Festival is one of Cornwall’s most…
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The Department for Culture Media and Sport, via Arts Council England (ACE) is encouraging grassroots music venues, recording studios, promoters and festivals to apply for grants of up to £40,000 to develop new revenue streams, make repairs and improvements, the grants are available until March 2025. The latest round of funding follows the original Supporting…
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Berry Galazka, one of 15 finalists in the MME awards. BIME Festival in Bilbao was the location for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2024 to unveil the fifteen remarkable artists who have been nominated for the prestigious awards. Announced at on Thursday 26th of October, the fifteen nominees for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2024…
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Stormzy storms ESNS in 2016. Pic: Bart Heemskerk ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag), the key exchange for emerging European music, unveils the first plans for its three-day music conference. With a selection of thought-provoking and industry-leading topics, a new curating team, and the return to a familiar location for the conference on Saturday, ESNS is trailblazing the…
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Coming to a festival near you… Cheers to BBC Radio 6 Music for playing the single and putting us on the New Music Fix playlist.x https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1NCVKqToWZW9d7B2ey11dK Stream/watch/UKtour w/ The Meffs linktr.ee/noahandtheloners End Of The Trail Creative Marshall Records Source
Cheers to BBC Radio 6 Music for playing the single and putting us on the New Music Fix playlist.x https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1NCVKqToWZW9d7B2ey11dK Stream/watch/UKtour w/ The Meffs linktr.ee/noahandtheloners End Of The Trail Creative Marshall Records Source
Team Mustard, ready to spice up Liverpool’s City of Music Campaign After an intensive pitch process, Marketing Liverpool has awarded Mustard Media as the marketing agency for the Liverpool City of Music Campaign, a groundbreaking destination marketing initiative aimed at positioning Liverpool as the UK’s City of Music. The Liverpool City of Music campaign is…
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They start ’em young in Nottingham. Pic: Tom Morley Nottingham’s Hockley Hustle is set to be the biggest ever with the introduction of an industry day to supercharge the careers of homegrown talent ahead of the main event taking place Sunday 22 October 2023. It’s all part of the festival’s ethos to showcase the creative…
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Mr Wilsons Second Liners An annual, multi venue music festival with a twist, ONWARDS, as the name suggests, leads audiences successively through Huddersfield town centre grassroots music venues, showcasing a carefully curated programme of live music Onwards Festival began in 2016 fulfilling a concept conceived by event organisers Sam Hodgson & Noah Burton of a…
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On Friday 14 July, Modern Music Cities will ask what contemporary music cities look like presently and need to look like in the future, with a dynamic programme of insightful discussions, engaging panels, and thought-provoking presentations. Industry experts, music creatives, cultural leaders, and policymakers will explore the significance of music cities, their cultural impact, the…
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Omnia Therapia, a unique fusion of music, healing, ceremony and community, promises to take attendees on a deep and soul-stirring journey that transcends the boundaries of conventional retreats and festivals. The 350 capacity event takes place in Bizerte, Tunisia, from 20 to 25 September. With roots in the underground alternative culture of the 1990s, Omnia…
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Soundclub, a social platform for live music experiences, has launched its website and mobile app. Soundclub focuses on festivals, helping fans discover and experience live music events. The free to download app, currently the number one festival discovery platform in the world, enables users to filter and view comprehensive festival details, such as line-ups, dates,…
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PRS Foundation, the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music and talent development, has revealed the findings of an independent evaluation of the impacts of ten years of its PPL Momentum Music Fund. Launched in 2013 and announced to the public at The Great Escape, the PPL Momentum Music Fund is run by PRS Foundation…
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Diaries out, Brighton Music Conference (BMC), has announced the full list of events and pod parties for its 10th Anniversary edition. Taking place from the 24th to 26th of May 2023 at the Brighton i360 beachfront complex, the 2023 edition will welcome some of the biggest names in the electronic music scene from the past,…
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Steve Jenner – he’s so up to date, that’s him at Reading 2023. Festival Awards co-founder Steve Jenner has led festivals through several game-changing technological shifts over the years, from bringing the internet to Glastonbury in the late 1990s to seeding the integral online community of Download Festival in the 2000s and more recently making…
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Spitalfields Music has today announced the full programme for its 2023 Festival, which will see world premieres, new music, overlooked historic pieces and classic repertoire performed in iconic East London locations from Village Underground to the Tower of London. Taking place from 30 June – 12 July, tickets go on general sale on 20 April.…
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AEI CEO, Sarah Cole. AEI Music, the engine behind leading electronic music brands and labels including Drum&BassArena, UKF and NCS, has unveiled AEI Ventures, a dedicated investment arm to support the next generation of founders in the music and hospitality industries. Following AEI’s ethos of ‘bringing outsiders inside’, AEI Ventures will focus on investing in…
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NFT-TiX, the pioneering decentralized ticketing platform, has announced a multi-year partnership with United Music Events. This groundbreaking collaboration will revolutionize ticket sales for Transmission, Techmission, and Hardmission Festivals using NFT-TiX’s innovative blockchain ticketing technology. United Music Events is a leading event organizer based in Prague, Czech Republic. Known for their legendary Transmission Festival and newly…
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Sound City 2022. Pic: Jonny Nolan 2022 UK Festival Award winner, Sound City has announced an exciting new two-year partnership with Virgin Music Artist & Label Services. The independent festival for new music will join forces with Virgin Music to support and drive chance for the next wave of young creatives. With shared values at…
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Westway LAB is a boutique showcase festival and music conference with a focus on artist residencies, co-creation, and building the knowledge and capacity of artists and music professionals over 4 days of networking in Portugal’s first capital city, the creative city of Guimarães. Aimed at all 3 sub-sectors of the industry (live music, recorded music,…
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6hunesseq, clearly an Estonian favourite. International conference and showcase festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW) will celebrate its 15th edition 10th – 15th May 2023 by bringing 176 acts from 41 countries to the Estonian capital. The music programme will open on Thursday, 11th May in the new pavilion of Tallinn Art Hall in the exciting new development at Lasnamäe near the Lennart…
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UK Music has been collaborating with partners from across the creative sector – including film, television and theatre – to set up the new Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA). The aim of the proposed CIISA cross-industry body will be to uphold and build on existing best practice across the sector, including providing additional wellbeing…
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Stanton Warriors Pod Party at BMC 2022. Pic: Nikki McNeill Taking place from the 24th to 26th of May 2023 at the prestigious Brighton i360 beachfront complex, the 2023 Brighton Music Conference will welcome some of the biggest names in the electronic music scene from the past, present and future including; ABSOLUTE., Alon Shulman, Carly…
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Graham Nash Live. Photo: Ralf Louis Musician and song-writing legend Graham Nash OBE has been announced as the headliner for The British Country Music Festival, as he returns to the town of his birth to perform at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Nash, who rose to fame as a founding member of both the Hollies and…
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With an eye on the talent pipeline that will supply festival line-ups in the future, November 2023 will see Birmingham’s NEC play host to Music Live, the one-stop festival for beginner and expert music makers, lovers and enthusiasts. Taking place over three days between November 3rd and 5th, the event will offer music tech’s latest…
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An all-new music and wellness festival, Wellnergy, is set to debut this year, combining music, mindfulness, fitness and nutrition all in one event. Taking place on 17th June 2023 at Barn Elms in London, just a short walk from Putney station, the festival will be a place to explore a variety of stalls, workshops and…
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NFT-TiX, a top-tier provider of blockchain-based ticketing solutions, has entered into a partnership with United Music Events and secured the naming rights for the VIP area at the highly anticipated 2023 Hardmission and Techmission Festival in Prague. The VIP area on both events will be now officially presented and known as the “NFT-TiX VIP Lounge,”…
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Ukrainian Association of Music Events (UAME) has released a documentary that follows a 5-day journey throughout Ukraine with the representatives of music and culture from Europe, Georgia, and Canada who were invited by the Music Saves UA charity initiative. The project was organized by the Ukrainian Association of Music Events (UAME) as part of its…
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Organizers of festivals, cultural events and night mayors from Slovakia, Canada, Georgia, Latvia and North Macedonia recently spent 5 days visiting 7 Ukranian cities Ukraine. During 5 days they visited 7 cities and took part in two educational events in Kyiv and Lviv. The project was organized by the Ukrainian Association of Music Events (UAME)…
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UK Festival Awards finalists, Sound City Festival has announced details of its brand new ‘Pay It Forward’ initiative, as tickets for the Sound City Conference go on sale. Proudly the UK’s independent conference for new music, Sound City welcomes the global music industry and budding next generation of young creatives to the North of England.…
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CM.com, a leading customer engagement platform, has launched a brand new report summarising the results from a nationwide, representative survey looking at the shifting attitudes and behaviours of live music fans in the UK. The findings in their report are based on a nationally representative survey of 1,003 live music event attendees (those who have…
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Prima Queen, just one of the breaking acts appearing at Beam Me Up in February. Pic: Barbora Mrazkova Brand new music festival Beam Me Up has put together a mouthwatering line up of the hottest new artists around for its inaugural outing in Lincoln (10 February) and Oxford (11 February 2022). Coach Party, Opus Kink,…
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A total of fifteen outstanding artists have been nominated for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2023. The nominees are: Amelie Siba (Czechia), CMAT (Ireland), eee gee (Denmark), Goldkimono (Netherlands), Hause Plants (Portugal), Jerry Heil (Ukraine), July Jones (Slovenia), Kids Return (France), Koikoi (Serbia), Monikaze (Lithuania), Oska (Austria), Queralt Lahoz (Spain), Sans Soucis (Italy), schmyt (Germany),…
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September 29th saw global forward thinking annual music conference and festival Linecheck, announces the first details, line up and program for its 2022 edition, taking place from 23rd November to 26th November at Milan’s hybrid centre for culture and creativity BASE. Acting as a catalyst for change in the music ecosystem, at its eighth edition,…
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DCentralize Festival will put the power back in the hands of the music community by transitioning into a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), an organization constructed by rules encoded as a computer program that is transparent and controlled by the organization’s members, in DCentralize’s case, this will enable token-holders to participate in decision-making of the festival.…
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UK Music, the collective voice of the UK music industry, publishes its This Is Music 2022 annual report today, which reveals how the sector began to recover from the initial impact of the pandemic. Unveiling the ‘no surprises but here are the numbers’ report, UK Music Chief Executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin said the economic findings showed…
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After a much talked about and sold-out event in 2022, Land Beyond is back and bigger than ever from 28th -30th April 2023. 2023 sees the event expanding from one to three days, officially becoming Brighton’s first ever camping electronic music festival, as well as doubling the number of stages to six in all. World-renownedbrands…
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Off the back of a well-received Glastonbury debut (with Bonobo, Jamie Jones, TSHA and more), immersive mixed-reality technology, Volta can now reveal they’ve secured a £400k ($500k) grant from Government-backed Innovate UK. Volta, a technology included as One of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2021, is a self-serve XR creation platform that gives musicians, artists & creators the ability to design…
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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 work behind the scenes in the industry, rather than those who are on stage and aims to collates data from across the music business including…
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