Archive for December, 2008
Festival Doctors nurse fans through texting.
Sending a text message to your friends after being hurt at a music festival can signify that you’re free to leave treatment, a new report states. Staff from the Festival Medical Services charity found that the majority of patients who had fainted or suffered a panic attack while at a festival were likely to text [...]
The Northampton Balloon Festival could face axe
The Northampton Balloon Festival could be scrapped. The announcements were made last night as part of Northampton Borough Council’s budget plans. Defending the plans, the leader of the authority, Councillor Tony Woods (Lib Dem, St Davids) said: “This is a challenging time for this council and most other councils in the country. “No authorities are [...]
T in the Park gets backing for extra tickets.
Big Day Out, organisers of leading music festival T in the Park were given unanimous backing by Perth and Kinross Licensing Committee to allow an additional 5000 ticket sales for the weekend – but only for those who buy the camping package. This will take the number of ticketholders in the T in the Park [...]
Jazz festival calls in receivers
The Brecon Jazz Festival has called in the receivers two months after telling creditors it was suspending payments. The festival, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this summer, said in October it had suffered a “significant loss” financially. It had said it was trying to obtain additional funds to cover the deficit. Members of the festival’s [...]
BBC spends £45,000 on Merlin launch party
The BBC has admitted spending £45,000 on a lavish launch party for one of its Saturday night shows. The event was held at London’s Oxo Tower restaurant to celebrate the launch of Merlin, a fantasy drama for BBC One which starred Richard Wilson and John Hurt. The event was held for “staff, media and opinion-formers” [...]
Oxynade raises $1.33M for European event listings
Oxynade, a European startup whose technology can aggregate events listings across thousands of websites, has raised $1.33 million (1 million euros) in a first round of venture funding. The Ghent, Belgium company makes its search results available through an search engine called Happenr, which allows users to find events in a specific region or city [...]
Bail-out for the Fringe ‘may top £500,000′
THE financial bail-out for the Edinburgh Fringe in the wake of last year’s box-office disaster is likely to be more than £500,000. Sources say the £250,000 rescue package revealed last week will almost certainly have to be doubled to stave off meltdown over the next few months. City council officials, who have been in lengthy [...]
Unfinished Usher Hall opens for four events – at cost of £600k
UP to £600,000 is to be spent on reopening the Usher Hall – for just four events. The Capital’s premier concert venue is undergoing a major refurbishment, but a series of delays means it is unlikely to be completed until next summer. However, council chiefs have agreed to temporarily open up the hall for a [...]
No way World Cup moving from South Africa, says Blatter
FIFA President Sepp Blatter on Monday insisted there was no way the 2010 World Cup would be moved from South Africa, saying any ‘plan B’ was now firmly dead and buried. Rumours have persisted that the tournament could be pulled from South Africa if it failed to meet organisational deadlines after Blatter admitted earlier this [...]
Event-Jobs.Net launches Facebook application
With 150 million users worldwide Facebook has become of one of the most popular social networking websites. Event-Jobs.Net has developed an application that integrates with Facebook to allow Facebook members to access the latest jobs from the event industry via there very own facebook page or profile. In addition to this, Event-Jobs.net launched its own [...]
City-funded security at Philips Arena a waste: US
A dozen years ago, the owners of the Atlanta Hawks threatened to move the team to the suburbs. The downtown Omni coliseum wasn’t bringing in enough money. Then-Mayor Bill Campbell and his staff put together an enticing package to keep the team in the city. The Hawks’ owner at the time, Turner Broadcasting System, took [...]
£250,000 bail-out to avert Festival Fringe collapse
THE Festival Fringe is to receive an emergency bail-out of £250,000 of public money to avoid slipping into administration. Edinburgh city council, the Scottish Government and Scottish Arts Council have agreed to step in to rescue the world’s biggest arts festival after it was brought to the brink of collapse by a series of box-office [...]
Warning over T in the Park hoax
T in the Park fans are being warned not to buy tickets from a Hungarian-based website which claims to have passes for next year’s festival. Organisers said the site, www.tinthepark2009.com, had no ticket allocation and fans should not be duped into giving their credit card details. Those behind the festival are also applying to Perth [...]
London 2012: security boom or bust?
The success of the Olympic Games in China has set a high benchmark. With the London 2012 Games next in line, we must swiftly ask ourselves: ‘Is Britain ready for the greatest show on earth’? When I pose that particular question, I’m at the same time suggesting that the emphasis needs to focus on the [...]
T in the Park chiefs plan to expand festival by another 5,000
FESTIVAL chiefs plan to make T in the Park bigger than ever by selling an extra 5000 tickets. And organisers Big Day Out want fans allowed access to the site on the Thursday before the 2009 weekend spectacular, in a bid to end congestion woes. They hope to buck a slump in UK festival ticket [...]
Edward Gillespie ready to welcome fresh faces as Festival ticket sales dip
Managing director puts positive spin on ticket sales for the meeting next March being 18 per cent down on the corresponding time a year ago In these financially challenged times, getting people through the gate is an initiative test for every racecourse. Sandown last Saturday solved it with sleigh rides from the station and an [...]
Event Communications to create £11m Titanic attraction
Event Communications is creating an £11m Titanic-themed visitor attraction in Belfast, where the ill-fated ship was built. The exhibition design consultancy will soon be assembling a team of audiovisual, lighting and interactive designers to work on the project. Incorporating rides and the extensive use of audio-visual technology, the Titanic/ Maritime Heritage Signature Project exhibition will [...]
TicketNetwork and FurrySoft Unveil Tiggits for iPhone
One of the First E-Commerce Apps for Real-Time Ticket Purchases on iPhone & iPod Touch TicketNetwork, the leading source for live event tickets and innovative technology solutions, today announced that it has partnered with e-commerce technology leader FurrySoft to release Tiggits, the second e-commerce application developed for the iPhone. Tiggits 1.0 is an end-to-end event [...]
London organizers plan shorter events sessions
The organizers of the 2012 London Olympics want to use shorter sessions to allow more fans to see more events. “In Beijing they had five-hour beach volleyball sessions,” London 2012 organizing committee chief executive Paul Deighton told legislators Tuesday. “It was a great event but we will shorten it so it increases the risk of [...]
Salzburg Festival head to step down next September
Austria’s prestigious Salzburg Festival says its theatrical director will step down effective September 2009. Organizers say next summer’s music festival will be Thomas Oberender’s last. They say Juergen Flimm will take over for the 2010 and 2011 editions of the famed event.
Music festivals now offering payment plans for tickets: US
Bonnaroo and Langerado come up with recession solution for music fans The Bonnaroo and Langerado music festivals have responded to the economic crisis in the the US, by offering payment plans on weekend tickets to the festivals in 2009.
Left Field Stage will no longer feature as part of Glastonbury Festival.
The campaigning Left Field Stage will no longer feature as part of Glastonbury Festival. Festival chiefs have pulled the plug on the 5000-capacity tent, describing the move as another twist in Glastonbury’s continued evolution. A spokesman told efestivals: “Although the Left Field area will not be happening next year in its current format, Glastonbury always [...]
In a recession, even the Super Bowl event takes a hit: US
Hut, hut, spike? Super Bowl parties, sponsors scale back, scratch plans amid economic worries When the Super Bowl festivities roll into Tampa late next month, the party blitz and corporate spending that surround the big day may take a hit because of the economic crisis. Sponsors have been slower to commit. Companies are scaling back [...]
Fans hurt at X Factor’s JLS event.
Five teenage girls have been injured at a free concert performed by X Factor finalists JLS. About 2,000 people had gathered for the concert at the 1,500-capacity Fairfield Halls in Croydon, south London. Fans were reportedly pushed forward when the crowd swelled as children gathered for tickets to see the boy band on Monday. London [...]
The events industry and its impact on Birmingham’s creativity
Custard Factory Spaces co-director Simon Jones looks at the successes and shortfalls of the city’s event industry. The event and exhibition industry is a major driving force in the British economy. Annually, the total revenue generated across the country from business tourism is approximately £22 billion, with £9.3 billion coming directly from United Kingdom-based events [...]
Festival makes effort to ‘go green’: US
The Indio International Tamale Festival is set to produce more than five tons of waste with an anticipated 125,000 people attending. However, with the festival’s significant effort to “go green” none of that garbage will go to a landfill. “This is our biggest event in the city and we have the most exposure to make [...]
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