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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Heavy showers of rain overnight and into the Monday morning caused headaches for drivers leaving the Glastonbury Festival site in Pilton.
Cars stuck in the mud caused big delays and one driver told the BBC it took four hours to leave the Somerset site.
Traffic was heavy on Monday with major delays on the A37 southbound from [...]
Monday, June 29, 2009
Bruce Springsteen cost the festival organiser Michael Eavis £3,000 when his set breached the 12.30am curfew by nine minutes.
Mr Eavis said: “I gave him ten minutes and he took nine. I’ll pay the fine, £3,000. Paul McCartney — 2004 headliner — paid me back. I’m going to pay the Bruce Springsteen one myself. It’s not [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
More than 100,000 revellers at Britain’s most famous music festival won’t go thirsty – thanks to a local company.
Gosport firm Huhtamaki has been given one of the most important jobs for Glastonbury, supplying the pint cups.
More than a million pints of cider and lager are expected to be knocked back at the four-day festival which [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Bristol’s international kite festival could be scrapped in the next month if new backers do not come forward.
Organisers of the festival, which is due to take place at Ashton Court, on September 12 and 13, have launched an impassioned plea for sponsorship to secure the future of the event.
Although exhibitors and traders have been confirmed [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Slough’s largest community event has been axed for the second year in a row with organisers accusing the police of making ‘unreasonable’ demands for providing security at the festival.
The company behind the Slough Mela has been told that this year’s music and culture bash can only go ahead on the condition that it pays Thames [...]
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Audio-visual company D & A Media will be helping superbike maker Ducati put the wow factor into its Ducati Village hospitality suite at the World Superbike Race at Donington this weekend with a three-metre wide screen.
The growing Essex company is providing the giant display in the Ducati “Launch Pad” which will see the new 1100cc [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
Michael Eavis, the Glastonbury founder, will stand down as the music festival’s organiser in 2011 to make way for a “new generation”
The 73-year-old Somerset farmer, who launched the festival 39 years ago, said he plans to hand over the reins to his daughter Emily and her fiance.
Previously, he said he would keep going until his [...]
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Organisers of the London Olympics have begun advertising for meteorologists to predict weather patterns in 2012.
Consultants will spend two years preparing for the Games by creating a detailed database on the micro-climates around more than 20 venues in London and elsewhere.
Officials hope to be able to accurately predict the weather so that they are able [...]
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
WORCESTERSHIRE presentation and communication company the drpgroup from Hartlebury added to its roster of satisfied customers after staging the Strategic Risk Awards in Berlin.
The event saw 160 risk industry professionals from across Europe gather for the annual event, organised by Strategic Risk magazine, and the evening passed off so successfully that the company has already [...]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The 2009 Henley Regatta Firework display will go ahead.
Despite the challenge of overcoming the Regatta’s decision to withdraw their support the organisers James Brennan of Hofmanns and Angie Major of Blueberry Business have been working hard to raise sponsorship from local businesses.
Several businesses have confirmed their support including headline sponsors Tesco Henley and The Copas [...]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
DESPITE two major music events being axed in Oxfordshire, the organiser of the county’s Cornbury Festival says the show will go on.
It has been confirmed that the annual Cornbury Festival — which attracted crowds of up to 12,000 people last year — is still set to take place in Charlbury, near Witney, on Saturday, July [...]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The sand has been laid, the chill out lounge is being decorated with beach balls and they are just putting final touches to the palm trees.
Meanwhile, a couple of roadies are carrying a huge amplifier to the main stage, whistling: “I do like to be beside the seaside”.
With just hours to go until it officially [...]
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The 2009 Wales Rally GB has been secured after the Motor Sports Association agreed to underwrite the costs of the event.
In April, its future had been thrown into uncertainty when the assembly government withdrew funding of £2.2m.
The MSA, UK motor sport’s governing body, said they had taken the decision “for the good of the sport”.
Event [...]
Monday, June 8, 2009
The organisers of Retrofest music festival in Scotland are fuming after an Internet prankster convinced fans the event had been cancelled.
The festival is due to take place in Glasgow, Scotland on 28-30 August (09) and feature headline acts including Gloria Gaynor, Level 42, Sister Sledge and Rick Astley.
But fans attending the festival were thrown into [...]
Friday, June 5, 2009
Concert-goers heading to see Oasis and Take That over the coming days will be well fed and watered, according to bosses at the Stadium of Light.
In a bid to ensure the 160,000 music fans descending on the city get served quickly, stadium bosses have recruited the help of the fastest pint dispensing pump on the [...]
Friday, June 5, 2009
70,000 fans were promised refunds by Oasis after some technical issues caused Oasis to abandon the stage at their concert in Manchester, England on Thursday night (4th June ‘09). A generator had caused the problem and engineers were trying to fix it.
Liam Gallagher told the crowd, “Really sorry about that. This is a free gig [...]
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Organisers of this year’s Edinburgh Marathon are offering a £5,000 reward to anyone who can help them catch the people who stole thousands of bottles of water meant for the runners.
Supplies had to be rushed in after stations on a six mile stretch of the race in East Lothian started to run out of [...]
Monday, June 1, 2009
TAKING a break from organising East Anglia’s biggest music festival, the man behind Latitude visited north Suffolk last week to open a new play area.
Melvin Benn
Melvin Benn, managing director of Festival Republic, opened the new outdoor activity area at Brambles nursery in Reydon, near Southwold, which has been part-funded by the Latitude festival.
The play area, [...]
