Monday, February 15, 2010
The HSE has announced it is to revise its guidance for the events industry to reflect legislative changes and improvements in industry practices.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 come in [...]
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 been made [...]
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 Anstey [...]
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 numerous awards during [...]
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 run” in [...]
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 The [...]
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 show, which [...]
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 crew [...]
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 festival, [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The promoter behind last year’s Mighty Boosh Festival has outlined his plans for similar future comedy-headlined events.
Vince Power, who also devised the Hop Farm Festival, told the London Lite that while it wouldn’t feature Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt again, he hoped to stage another comedy event at the Hop Farm site where last July’s [...]
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Music festival Bloom has been put off until next year due to problems caused by a last minute venue change, organisers have announced.
The event, which was set to take place at Chepstow racecourse on 14-16 August, featured a host of acts including Frankmusik on the line-up.
Ticket holders are being offered the chance to go to [...]
Monday, July 27, 2009
Ticket buyers told to stay away after council’s safety concerns lead to festival surrendering licence for Mendips event.
The organisers of Britain’s biggest green festival have been forced to cancel the event just days before it was due to start because of a failure to resolve safety problems with police.
The Big Green Gathering was expecting [...]
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Reading Festival organiser Melvin Benn and Festival Republic are in the process of asking Reading Borough Council if they can sell up to 6,500 more tickets over the next two years.
Festival bosses are also proposing to increase the number of “early arrivals” from 7,500 to 20,000.
Currently the festival sells 78,500 tickets with 4,999 guests and [...]
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
ORGANISERS hailed this year’s Latitude Festival as “phenomenal” as the event came to a close last night.
The four-day festival, at Henham Park, near Southwold, offered up a feast of music, comedy, literature, film, dance and theatre.
Up to 25,000 people every day lapped up the entertainment on offer, as the festival completed its fourth run.
Melvin Benn, [...]
