Sociable Distancing at the Tatton Park Pop Up Festival
While many were seeing socially distanced events as an alternative during Covid restrictions, Saving Grace Events’ Rebecca Hartley saw it as an opportunity to bring ideas for a new type of...
Martyn’s Law, Our Duty To Protect
Figen Murray isn’t a born campaigner, but she’s a successful campaigner; diminutive in stature, she walks tall, stands firm and fights hard. It’s what any mum would do for their child but...
Festivals’ plastic predicament
According to think-do tank Powerful Thinking, UK music festivals create 23,500 tonnes of waste per year. Several initiatives have been implemented by festivals to combat this waste issue, however there is still...
Sustainability – The Time To Walk The Walk Is NOW
Graham Brown has a bee in his bonnet, he may need to keep it there to preserve that particular species but figuratively speaking, this industry PR and marketing specialist has campaigned enough,...
The F-List and How To Achieve Gender Balance in Line-ups
We asked F-List founder, Vick Bain to outline gender inbalance in festival line-ups and explain routes to solutions. Splendid Events' Eddie Barcan also documents his success in achieving balance when programming for...
In profile – JBM Music.
It’s 10am when Jorge Meehan pops into our Zoom chat and he’s still got his coat on; he’s been in the office for a while but there’s a heating issue and the...
AFO Conference ‘Back To Our Best’
Trade associations, defined as groups of individuals and companies with a common interest, really came to the fore over the past two years. While you get on with the things that directly...
3 reasons why we want female urinals at every festival
Danielle Dong a Yakan is the Social Media Manager at madamePee, a manufacturer of women's urinals. An estimated 100,000 women used madamePee last year, at 15 events across France, including the Women's World Cup.
Whether...
Climate EQ Launches Carbon Literacy Course for Music Sector.
You’d obviously have to have had your head down an oil well to not get the message that we’re on the verge of climate catastrophe and urgent action is needed. Sure, there...
Why Sustainability is at the Heart of the Conversation about Recovery
Q&A with industry Sustainability expert Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson serves as the co-founder, Operations Director and Sustainability Lead for award-winning festival Shambala as well as the co-founder of Powerful Thinking, the UK’s event industry Think-Do Tank on...