Serious Ambition Sets the Stage
Production People Profiled
The business of temporary outdoor staging can be seen as a bit, well, temporary to some, what with the seasonal nature of outdoor events. It’s certainly what Abbey Thomas found when she...
15 Years of Lovefest: Zlatana Pavlović on How to Sustain Festival Success
Lovefest is back once again in 2022, this year celebrating 15 years since its inception. The event is set to take place in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia from August 4-6th, with an extra special lineup...
Soultown’s Population Boom
We’ve all done it, drifting apart from school friends as our own lives, careers, businesses, and families lead our focus away from those carefree days. Old school friends Joe Courtney and Lucy...
SeatlabNFT announce £1,000,000 Event Creator Fund
As it continues to revolutionise the event ticketing industry, SeatlabNFT today announces their £1,000,000 SeatlabNFT Event Creator Fund to help artists and event organisers with the cost of running live events. These...
Government Publishes Response to Spiking Report, NTIA & UKDSA Comment.
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 to improve...
Notting Hill Carnival CEO Matthew Phillip announced as new AIF Chair
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 Trust, London's leading Carnival development...
HebCelt Pioneers Locally Produced Green Hydrogen
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...
James Dean Events – Cider, Sausages and the Road to Success
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 goes, if...
Mixed Reality & Game Engines: Why you should be using this technology for your...
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 goers expectations are higher...
FAC Starts Petition Urging PRS to reconsider funding cuts to PRS Foundation
The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) has launched a petition to urge UK collecting society, PRS for Music to reconsider its decision to slash funding to the talent development body, PRS Foundation.
