Category: Festival News
Cheltenham tops survey as UK’s hospitality magnet
A survey of the UK’s most popular hospitality dates by Keith Prowse, has found that the Cheltenham Festival attracts the most companies from far afield. The research, carried out in collaboration with PH Group, part of Experian, analysed company demographics from standout events on the sporting and social calendar, including; Twickenham, the Kia Oval, Lord’s, [...]
Brilliant Stages Rate in Pollstar’s Top 50 Worldwide Concert Tours 2010
Brilliant Stages, UK-based fabricators of specialist staging, was delighted to discover that its work was internationally represented in three of the top five tours of 2010. According to Pollstar’s recent listings of the Top 50 Worldwide Concert Tours, the numbers 2, 3 and 4 slots were occupied by AC~DC, U2 and Lady Gaga respectively, to [...]
Cowes Week secures title sponsor after two years without headline partner.
Aberdeen Asset Management replaces Skandia. At this stage the value of the sponsorship is unknown. Cowes week attracts over 8,500 competitors and over 100,000 spectators during the week and this announcement will be a big of relief for many. The event operated in 2009 and 2010 without a headline sponsor but competitor numbers remained stable. [...]
Organisers blame curse for collapse of two festivals
The creators of a show based on Hadrian’s Wall were left cursing their luck last year when the collapse of two festivals scuppered their planned performances. And talking of curses, the cancellations set singer-songwriter Julie Matthews thinking. As part of her contributions to the All Along The Wall song and poetry show, Julie had written [...]
Reading Council plan to stage a Big Wine Festival
Reading Borough Council bosses welcomed a plan to stage a Big Wine Festival at King’s Meadow in June. But Councillor Tom Stanway, lead member for culture and sport, revealed the council suggested running a taster event this year because it was felt it was “too soon” to organise an international festival on the scale envisaged [...]
New surf and music festival Groundswell launches
Allez-oop, the team behind the award winning Jersey-based Grassroots festival, is launching another festival to add to their event rosta, called Groundswell. Groundswell, a new music festival combining sun, surf, international music acts and eco-credibility, promises to be a fresh addition to the European festival circuit for 2011. To be held on September 17th, Groundswell [...]
AP Security Trips The Light Fantastic
The Festival of Light is one of the annual highlights in Huddersfield, a town famed as the birthplace of rugby league and situated between Leeds and Manchester in the former industrial heartland of England. The four-day festival attracts visitors from many of the surrounding towns and cities, as well as a significant proportion of Huddersfield’s [...]
Ticket Tailor allows event organisers to sell tickets on-line without paying booking fees
Ticket Tailor (www.tickettailor.com) is a new service that offers all the tools needed to sell tickets on-line so that event organisers can sell tickets direct and keep any booking fees they wish to set. The Internet has revolutionised many sectors by making things easier, cheaper and more accessible. People have become more savvy and are [...]
The evolution of the British music festival to be told by BBC Four’s Britannia music series
Continuing the critically-acclaimed Britannia music series for BBC Four, this documentary tells the story of the emergence and evolution of the British music festival through the mavericks, dreamers and dropouts who have produced, enjoyed and sometimes fought for them over the last 50 years. The film traces the ebb and flow of British festival culture [...]
Rhythm Festival 2012 to take place at Mansion House
Rhythm Festival organisers have announced that their yearly event will take place at Mansion House, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire from 2012 onwards. They are still, however, without a venue for Rhythm Festival 2011, which is set to take place in August. In a message to users, organiser Jim Driver wrote: “After lots of looking and negotiating, I’ve [...]
Ticket Tout Response Vehicle Proves Success For Leeds Festival
For the first time a multi agency tout response vehicle was deployed at this year’s Leeds Festival which happened at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th August. Officers from a number of different agencies joined forces with Leeds Festival organisers this year in order to form the new ‘Multi agency [...]
Rob Challice Joins Larmer Tree Festival Programming Team
Larmer Tree Festival directors (James Shepard and Julia Safe) are delighted to announce that Rob Challice has joined their music programming team. Rob will be actively involved in helping pull together the line-up for the 21st Larmer Tree Festival. Rob Challice who is a senior partner at CODA Music Agency, has vast festival programming experience [...]
Stage Electrics Powers Guardian Hay Festival
Stage Electrics has once again provided full technical production for the Guardian Hay Festival, held in Hay-on-Wye in the Brecon Beacons each summer. The world’s leading literary festival, famously labelled by Bill Clinton as “The Woodstock of the mind”, has also exported its concept to create sister events as far flung as India, Columbia, Mexico, [...]
Organisers of Jersey Live apologise for queuing problems
Jersey Live festival organisers have apologised to people who had to queue for a long time at the event. They said the queues happened because of the volume of people arriving on site within a short period of time. The entrance to the site was designed to cope with up to 1,500 people per hour [...]
Nottingham Food & Drink Festival Sets Visitor Target of 25,000
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 [...]
Record Number of Volunteers Sign Up To Promote Oxjam 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 [...]
Showsec help to make rock history at Download 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 [...]
Godiva festival organisers CV One attacked by Coventry music fans
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 [...]
Organisers of Glade Festival cancel event for 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 [...]
Budleigh Salterton festival receives £1000 council cash grant
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 [...]
Reading Festival organiser Melvyn Benn & councillors behind plans for “tent city” during 2012 London Olympics.
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 [...]
Association of Independent Festivals Launch Initiative To “Twin’ Independent Festivals
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 [...]
Beach Break Live relocates to a new home in Wales
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 [...]
Festivals in Scotland have funding axed
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 [...]
Beach Break Live festival facing opposition at new venue
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 [...]
Reading Festival left overs help local families
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 [...]
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