Tag: Festival News
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 [...]
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, [...]
Death at T in the Park
A man has collapsed and died at the end of the first night of the T in the Park music festival. The man, 24, from Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, collapsed at around midnight at the festival, in Balado, near Kinross, as he made his way from the main area towards the campsite. He was pronounced dead [...]
GT Trax have a Mega-Solution for outdoor events come rain or shine
GT Trax Limited, the Hertfordshire based ground protection and event seating specialists, is preparing to launch a brand new product into the UK event market – the Mega-Sol. The Mega-Sol is a truly unique concept for providing cover for up 250 guests in sunshine or rain. Based on the principal of an open umbrella, the [...]
£1m festival ‘fraudsters’
A gang selling fake entry wristbands for music festivals could have netted more than £1million, a court heard yesterday. The scam was uncovered by police at the 2007 Isle of Wight Festival, which was the worst-hit event that year. Around 5,000 counterfeit wristbands were produced for that event alone, Portsmouth crown court heard yesterday. Sherrell [...]
New licence rules are threat to festival
A FESTIVAL is under threat after strict new conditions were added to the licence last night. It will be impossible to run Stokes Bay Festival next year with a raft of new restrictions that have been put in place, claims the organiser. The Gosport Tories have pushed through new rules increasing the rent at the [...]
Promoters and venues to foot the bills for police costs?
The Association Of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) have proposed that venues and promoters should pick up the total bill for policing live events. Under current legislation stands only police officers inside venues and festival sites are being paid for by events organisers. However, ACPO have told the Home Office that they want to charge football [...]
Economy sounds warning for festivals.
As one of the UK’s top DJs and music festival promoters Rob Da Bank is more familiar with disco balls than crystal balls. But when it comes to forecasting the outlook for next summer’s festival scene, he is just one of several industry experts warning that many of the UK’s 500 or so events face [...]
The Event Show 2009 is fast approaching.
The Event Show 2009 is fast approaching and is the annual meeting place for everyone involved in selling and sourcing products and services which make fantastic events – whatever their size or nature. Plans for The Event Show at Olympia on 21st and 22nd January 2009 are well underway with the exhibition already boasting a [...]
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