Tag: Jim King
AIF Confront Festival Safety with Conference
Following the tragic festival stage collapses that shocked the world last summer, Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) will host a Structural and Crowd Safety Conference that examines the engineering details of outdoor structures, emergency planning procedures and insight into climate issues and resulting safety implications. Throughout the day there will be a range of panels [...]
Rockness Express to Transport Festival Goers
Organisers of the hugely popular Rockness festival have announced a venture with Creative Scotland that will see the launch of the ‘Rockness Express’ train service. With capacity for 600 people, the service will depart from London with stops scheduled for the midlands and the north of England, before proceeding directly to Inverness. Further details relating [...]
Showsec Awarded Rockness Contract
Showsec has been awarded the contract to provide security for the entire Rockness festival, building on five successful years supplying specific elements of this popular Scottish event. Rockness, the recently announced winner of the 2011 NME Awards for Best Small Festival, is committed to achieving the highest levels of customer service for the 30,000 festival [...]
Creamfields organisers set for final permanent licence appeal
CREAMFIELDS campaigners will go head-to-head with the event organisers at an appeal over its licensing conditions. The festival is due to return to Daresbury for a two day-dance event during the August Bank Holiday for the fourth consecutive year. In June, the music giants were given the go ahead to showcase this year’s line-up. But [...]
Showsec Family excel at Camp Bestival.
Organisers heaped praise on Showsec following a tremendously successful Camp Bestival this July. In the events’ second year, audience numbers increased by an amazing 50% from 10,000 to 15,000, including 5,000 kids. Loud Sound’s Event Director Jim King commented: “We were very happy with the operation undertaken by Showsec at Camp Bestival. They had the [...]
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