Tag: Festival Republic
Latitude And Reading Festival Awarded Top Industry Certification For Environmental Achievement
Latitude and Reading Festival have each achieved a three star Industry Green rating for the 2012 events; the only festivals in the UK to currently hold a three star rating, the highest possible achievement, for Industry Green. The Industry Green certification is the leading mark of achievement on environmental sustainability within the creative industries and is administered [...]
UK Festivals join Green Festival Alliance’s Powerful Thinking Campaign
Camp Bestival, Festival Republic, Shambala Festival, Summer Sundae and Sunrise Celebration are among the first festivals and promoters to join Powerful Thinking, the Green Festival Alliance’s first campaign which aims to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions through increased efficiency, and drive the market for renewable energy supply at festivals. The Powerful Thinking campaign was announced on Tuesday [...]
ADLIB Chills Out Again
ADLIB is not exactly “chilling out” this summer, which is proving one of their busiest in recent years, reflecting a generally buoyant rental market. The Big Chill, the UK’s original ’boutique’ festival is held in the fabulously picturesque grounds of Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Hertfordshire. It was the latest in a series of festivals [...]
Festival Republic unveiled its traffic-calming scheme for this year’s Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival organisers are hoping that their tried and tested methods of keeping traffic to a minimum at this year’s event will prove successful. Event organiser Festival Republic unveiled its traffic-calming scheme for this year’s event, which will include directing festival traffic from junction 45 of the A1(M) to Bramham Park via local access routes [...]
UK event organisers agree to a police idea to protect people from fraudulent ticket websites.
Two of the biggest live event organisers in the UK have agreed to a police idea to protect people from fraudulent ticket websites. Festival Republic and Livenation will send out tickets as soon as possible, rather than waiting, sometimes for six months, until just before performances. Police say the delay makes it difficult to prove [...]
Festival Republic to launch a new event in the US
The organiser of both Reading Festival and Leeds Festival is to launch a new event in the US, it has been announced. Festival Republic is to hold a 50,000-capacity music festival in Orlando, Florida, this November. Speaking about the new festival, Festival republic managing director Melvin Benn said: “Festival Republic is not called Festival Republic [...]
Big Chill sale sends shiver through festival awards
Once a model of independence, sale of Big Chill to Festival Republic may presage further consolidation in market At the UK Festivals awards at the O2 Arena in London tonight, the great and good of the festival world will gather to celebrate the successes of 2009 and to mourn its losses. One story that is [...]
Reading Festival tickets, another 6,500 may become available
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 [...]
Melvin Benn hail’s Latitude Festival 09 as “phenomenal”
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 [...]
Security Planning Pays off at Glastonbury
Put nearly 140,000 people and hundreds of attractions – from the mainstream to the truly surreal – into several thousand acres of prime English farmland for a weekend and, without very carefully managed safety and stewarding, there is the potential for many problems. But with the long-term planning and careful site management of companies like [...]
Latitude festival organiser Melvin Benn opens play area
TAKING a break from organising East Anglia’s biggest music festival, the man behind Latitude visited north Suffolk last week to open a new play area. Melvin Benn Melvin Benn, managing director of Festival Republic, opened the new outdoor activity area at Brambles nursery in Reydon, near Southwold, which has been part-funded by the Latitude festival. [...]
Isle of Wight festival signs secondary ticketing deal with Viagogo
Isle of Wight has become the latest major festival to sign up Viagogo as their official secondary ticketing and ticket exchange partner. This follows yesterday’s announcement that Festival Republic (previously fiercely opposed to secondary ticketing sites) had signed a historic deal with the same company to be the official platform for their Reading, Leeds and [...]
Factors behind Reading festival crush
The crush outside this year’s Reading Festival was caused by a combination of factors – including fake tickets being sold and music lovers attempting to sneak in unnoticed. That is according to Reading Borough Council experts who have examined why “jostling” and “sporadic outbursts” took place before 2008’s annual fest.
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 [...]
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