Tag: Festival organiser
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 [...]
Michael Eavis planing ‘legendary’ Glastonbury Festival anniversary
Michael Eavis has reportedly started making plans for Glastonbury Festival’s 40th anniversary next year. The festival organiser and daughter Emily are said to favour a bill made up exclusively of acts that have played at the event over the past four decades. “Michael and Emily want to make next year’s festival the most memorable ever,” [...]
Bruce Springsteen costs organisers £3,000 after breaking time limit
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 [...]
Lack of backers could sink Bristol kite festival
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 [...]
Hop Farm Festival Wins Appeal To Increase Capacity
The Hop Farm Festival has won an appeal to expand the event’s capacity in 2009, organisers have revealed. The annual event in Kent will now welcome 53,000 festivalgoers – 23,000 more than in 2008. A magistrates court rejected an initial application to expand the festival last November because the committee felt that organisers hadn’t supplied [...]
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