Programme revealed for Hull’s Freedom Festival
UK: Freedom Festival – Hull’s urban arts festival which commemorates the city’s historic links to the cause of freedom – has revealed its 2016 programme. Featuring over 200 performances taking place across the city...
MLA and Capital Sound thrive at Wild Life
UK: Having helped establish the inaugural Wild Life event at the new Brighton City Airport festival site last year — fulfilling an idea floated by dance music specialists Rudimental and Disclosure — Capital Sound...
Void Acoustics to power Northern Nights Music Festival
USA: Full Circle Productions and Basscraft are set to provide Void Acoustics sound systems to the upcoming Northern Nights Music Festival in California, which will be utilised by a unique line-up of artists and...
NEWSUBSTANCE designs giant dog installation for Download
UK: NEWSUBSTANCE designed, fabricated and installed a giant dog’s head at this year’s Download Festival at Donington Park. Standing 6.5m high to the top of his ears the Download Dog was a commission by...
Download gets Serious with its stages
UK: Over 100 bands performed on Serious Stages in front of 80,000 rock fans from June 10 - 12, as Serious supplied staging and ancillary structures to Download Festival for the first time.
The 13th...
Standon Calling appoints PlayPass for full RFID cashless delivery
UK: PlayPass has confirmed Standon Calling as the latest UK festival to implement its RFID cashless payments system this summer.
Standon Calling, a leading UK independent festival, was the first British festival to go fully...
Chalke Valley selects Topher for security and traffic management
UK: The Chalke Valley History Festival has chosen Topher to manage its traffic and security for the third consecutive year. The festival, which runs from June 27 – July 3 this year, attracts tens...
Bordeaux Wine Festival marks 10th anniversary with Intellitix
FRANCE: This year’s Bordeaux Wine Festival has entrusted event technology specialist, Intellitix, to deliver innovative Tasting Passes embedded with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips at the prestigious wine festival, set to take place from...
Shambala sells out despite gloomy forecast
UK: Shambala Festival, set to take place from August 25 – 28, has sold out this week – proving that its bold decision to go meat and fish free has not affected ticket sales....
Lightning risk adds to music festival woes
UK: The international delivery expert ParcelHero is warning that many festivals risk being cancelled by the latest blow to hit the festival scene: an increasingly torrential summer. One festivalgoer has already been killed by...
