Better Entertainment Weather Around the World
The story is all too common. It begins with an average festival morning; stages are prepped and the crew loads in their equipment. Trucks roll in and out backstage, while food carts, beer stations...
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 Nozstock: The Hidden Valley
Nozstock: The Hidden Valley will celebrate its 20th anniversary from July 20 - 22, with a line-up featuring Chase & Status (DJ), Goldfrapp, Dillinja, The Blockheads, Grandmaster Flash, The Selecter, Dub Pistols and We...
In Conversation with Junction 2
The London based techno festival Junction 2 made its debut in June of this year, the brainchild of one the capital's most esteemed electronic music promoters, London Warehouse Events. The event's auspicious combination of...
An Interview with DGTL Festival
With international incarnations in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo and Tel Aviv, the DGTL Festival brand is widely becoming synonymous with innovation due to its predilection for emerging technology, high-end production, underground electronic music, and...
In It Together – Mark Hopkins Interviewed.
When a festival announces a 'Bring Your Grandparents For Free' initiative, we just have to find out a little more about the people behind it. We had questions and In It Together...
Lakefest Appoints MetaFests to Become First UK NFT-enabled Festival
Lakefest has partnered with MetaFests, to be the first UK festival to enhance the experience for all attendees with full scale NFT collectibles and technologies for 2023.
We sensed that something new was in the...
DJ Awards to Return After 4 Year Pause
New ownership and a test-bed for a new payment platform see serial entrepreneur, Andrew Grant relaunch the DJ Awards. He tells us what plans he has after announcing the return of the celebration of...
Bestival Part I
UK: Still relatively young but undeniably effectual, the desert island disco-themed Bestival 2014 continued to refine its distinct aesthetic through a plethora of idiosyncratic conceptual art pieces, intimate micro venues, eclectic eateries, and an...
