The European Festival Market Report 2014
EUROPE: Ahead of the European Festival Awards and Eurosonic Nooderslag in Groningen (NL) next week, the former has released the European Festival Market Report for 2014. The data comes courtesy of the 2014 European...
An Interview With Definitive Event Policing
If it weren't for security services, festivals would be the perfect microcosm for demonstrating exactly why Anarchist utopias wouldn't work. Taking thousands of try-hard teenagers away from the panopticon of parental supervision and placing...
An Interview With Pure Groove Sound Systems
Despite the music ostensibly remaining the primary reason most people attend music festivals, there's often a painful lack of attention given to the quality of onsite sound systems. This is especially true for large...
An Interview with Peppermint Bars
If the body is a temple, then the average festival-goer must have a borderline pathological penchant for desecration. Whether you treat festivals like the modern equivalents of Sodom and/or Gomorrah or just like to...
An Interview with Bearded Butler
The Bearded Butler was born at Meadows in the Mountains in Bulgaria, a picturesque boutique festival with a mountainous backdrop and 'penchant for social experimental adventure'. The production company was conceived as an affront...
The Crowd Connected 2017 Festival Insights infographic
The average festivalgoer walks over four miles a day, makes more than three trips to food and drink outlets and spends 45 minutes in sponsor activations.
That’s according to analysis Festival Insights has been...
Steve Heap – EPA Industry Legend.
Steve Heap, General Secretary of The Association of Festival Organisers, has received the Industry Legend Award at the 2022 Event Production Awards. The awards ceremony took place on Thursday 17 February at...
Superbloom – Seeing With All Your Senses.
If you’re given the chance to interview Superbloom Festival Director, Fruzsina Szep, you take it; but you do so in the knowledge that the story of its launch will be the story of a...
10 Years of Production: 11 ways to get it right
At the end of their 10th season producing festivals and events, The Fair team share their learnings, insights and take-home tips for those looking to progress their career in the industry
A lot can happen...
Liverpool Sound City
Festival Insights returned to Liverpool Sound City this year for its newly rebranded Sound City+ conference, which featured TED-style talks, panel sessions, an independent record label fair, and one-to-one chats with agents, managers and...