Friday, August 20, 2010
Event managers and company directors are risking prosecution and heavy fines because they do not allow for their many liabilities when organising an event warns Alison McDougall, managing director of Relevant Risk.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Monday, August 9, 2010
Preparations for the second annual Nottingham Food and Drink Festival taking place between 23 and 26 September are underway with the organisers hoping to attract 25,000 visitors. We Are Nottingham, which is the city’s Business Improvement District (BID) representing all of the city centre’s licensed premises, put on the successful inaugural event last year that [...]
Saturday, July 17, 2010
With 3 months to go before the 2010 Oxjam Festival, a record 2600 volunteers have already signed up to stage their own fund raising events. Held in towns and cities across the UK, Oxjam encourages promoters and music fans to stage a club night or gig to raise funds for Oxfam. Helping Oxjam reach that [...]
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Showsec successfully implemented a comprehensive security and crowd management operation at the largest ever Download this June, where 95,000 rock fans gathered for the festival’s historic 30th year. Showsec Operations Director Simon Battersby was appointed as the festival’s Head of Security, prior to seven months strategic planning that led into coordinating 1300 security professionals and [...]
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
MUSIC fans in Coventry have launched an attack on organisers of the Godiva Festival. More than 1,400 people have joined a Facebook group accusing CV One of killing the local element of the popular city festival. In the group – CV One Stole our Festival – members voiced their anger about acts from outside Coventry [...]
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The UK’s premium electronic music festival has been cancelled for 2010, in what would have been the seventh year for the independent, anti-sponsorship event. Having grown from a small stage at Glastonbury, Glade has continued to represent the best in all forms of electronic music. Below is the official statement from the Glade team. Glade [...]
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
MONTHS of rows over festival funding have drawn to a close after Budleigh Salterton Town Council this week agreed to financially support the town’s music and arts event. Recently the council was at loggerheads over a grant request to help the festival through the recession. On Monday the council agreed to give the festival a [...]
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Businessman Sir John Madejski, Reading Festival organiser Melvyn Benn and a councillor are behind plans for a “tent city” during the 2012 London Olympics. They say people who may not be able to get to Olympic events could be attracted to the town if giants screens were installed at the camping site. The group plans [...]
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Association of Independent Festivals has launched a new initiative, AIF Twin Festivals: A Cultural Exchange, which partners the UK’s leading independent festivals with their counterparts abroad. Based on the twin towns concept, festivals will be paired with likeminded and similarly structured festivals from countries from around the world. Participating festivals will help promote their [...]
Monday, February 1, 2010
Beach Break Live organisers have announced a new venue for 2010 after licensing issues forced the event from its original Cornwall home. The festival will now take place at Pembrey Country Park in Carmarthenshire in South Wales. The new site, which is next to the award winning dunes of Cefn Sidan Sands beach, also has [...]
Monday, January 11, 2010
Experts have warned Scotland is unlikely to see any new festivals launched for the foreseeable future, as it emerged a string of top events have been axed. Connect, Outsider, Big in Falkirk, Live at Loch Lomond and EH1 are among festivals shelved in the wake of poor ticket sales and funding problems. Their demise has [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Residents living near a coastal country park are opposing plans to stage music festival this summer which could see as many as 20,000 students from across the country. Carmarthenshire Council is carrying out negotiations with the people behind Beach Break Live concerning the use of Pembrey Country Park. Carmarthenshire Council admitted that no decision had [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
More than 600 parcels of food for Christmas have been packed up by the Salvation Army for the most needy people in Reading. Volunteers were filling festive boxes of canned food and sweet treats for families across town who otherwise might not have anything to eat on Christmas Day at the Reading Central Centre in [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
THE organiser of a Herefordshire festival has finished a troubled year on a high note. Big Chill co-founder Katrina Larkin received a lifetime achievement award at the 2009 UK Festival Awards. Judges praised her “vision and energy” during the ceremony at London’s O2 Arena last Thursday. Katrina started the festival in 1994 and has won [...]
Friday, November 20, 2009
Fraudsters making “highly convincing” fake wristbands are planning to target UK music festivals in 2010, an industry adviser has warned. Thousands of the fakes are likely to be in circulation next summer, according to Reg Walker from Iridium Security, who works with several major festivals. He added there was evidence that criminals staged a “test [...]
Friday, October 16, 2009
Malmesbury Carnival is facing losses of £20,000 after the company set up to run the Party in the Park music festival went into liquidation after turnout failed to reach expectations The losses take up nearly all of the carnival’s reserve funds but organisers say the disaster will not affect the £17,000 they plan to dish [...]
Monday, September 7, 2009
THE dust has barely settled on this year’s Wizard Festival, but already planning has started to make next year’s music event even bigger and better. The two-day Wizard Festival attracted a record-breaking more than 5,000 music fans to the New Deer Showground in Aberdeenshire, to rock to top flight bands, such as The Charlatans and [...]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
THE ORGANISER of a one-day dance festival has signalled the event may have to change venue to accommodate large demand. Vince Macari, founder of Swindon Invincible, said he could sell triple the amount of tickets if a more spacious spot than The Bowl in Old Town could be found for next year. The second annual [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Eat To The Beat (ETTB), part of the Global Infusion Group, has added the prestigious V Festival in Chelmsford to its expansive festival rosta, alongside Glastonbury, Leeds, Reading, Big Chill, Latitude, Download, Lovebox and the Hyde Park series of shows. With over 15 years music catering experience, team leader Susie D’Andrea managed her 45 strong [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The first time Woodstock organiser Michael Lang rode in a helicopter over the festival site, the event was over. Far below him, he could see the devastation wreaked by 500,000 kids on what had once been a pristine upstate New York alfalfa field, a scene that would take the next three weeks to clear up. [...]
Thursday, August 6, 2009
THE Scot who invented T in the Park has launched the first in a series of ultra-glamorous F1 Rocks concerts at Grand Prix races around the world. Glaswegian Paul Morrison, who introduced T in the Park’s promoters DF Concerts to music sponsors Tennents Live! back in 1992 with the idea of a massive Scottish music [...]
