Joris Voorn, Adam Beyer and more for The Winter Social

UK: Having revealed the first two phases of its upcoming winter edition, which sees Art Department, Âme, Guy Gerber, Nina Kraviz, Maya Jane Coles and festival curator Nic Fanciulli amongst names announced, The Winter...

HARMAN supplies for the stars at iHeartRadio Music Festival

USA: As it has the for the past four years, Firehouse Productions relied on a HARMAN Professional Solutions audio system for the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, featuring JBL VTX line arrays...


LeeFest to return in 2016

UK: LeeFest has announced that it will make a return to the UK festival scene in 2016. After taking a fallow year, organisers behind the award-winning music and arts event have broken their silence...

Summer Days Festival announces more acts

UK: Summer Days – the UK’s newest boutique music and food festival – has announced the first wave of acts that will support Simply Red on July 6 2016, the opening night of the...

Access Starts Online – new campaign launched by Attitude is Everything & AIF

UK: Leading music charity Attitude is Everything and the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) have announced a new online campaign to benefit millions of deaf and disabled music fans. Launched at AIF’s Festival Congress...

BeatSwitch acquires Buttons for Events and MECANO

BELGIUM: During the summer of 2015, Belgian company BeatSwitch made two intellectual property acquisitions: Buttons for Events, and MECANO – Alex Stevens’ impressive digital back office for the Dour Festival. These acquisitions have allowed BeatSwitch...

EventServ named as Scotland’s Best Event Services Supplier

UK: EventServ – the UK and Ireland’s leading event infrastructure support supplier – has been named as Scotland’s Best Event Services Supplier for the second year running. The company also took home the prestigious Event...

Airstar shines a bright light at European summer music festivals

FRANCE: As the festival season recently drew to a close, Airstar has announced that it lit up well over half a million festivalgoers this year. Summer has historically been a busy season for Airstar...

Continental Drifts launches new website

UK: Continental Drifts - the idiosyncratic multi-faceted event company - has launched a splendid new website. Comprising a small team of industry specialists, CD's work spans across event management, experiential brand activation, artist booking...

AIF and The Musicians’ Union announce details of ‘Fair Play for Festivals’ agreement

UK: The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) and the Musicians’ Union (MU) have announced details of an agreement that will mutually benefit emerging artists who are represented by the MU and the AIF’s 55...