Tag: music festival
Glastonbury Festival 2010 to use solar electricity system
Worthy Farm in Somerset, home to the annual music festival Glastonbury, is set to house 1,500 square meters of solar panels for this year’s event, in what would be the UK’s largest private solar electricity system. Festival organiser Michael Eavis hopes to place 1,100 solar panels on cow sheds during Glastonbury 2010. It is thought [...]
South Lanarkshire Council refuses festival licence
A music festival due to take place in Lanark this weekend has been cancelled amid a row between the organisers and the local authority. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers were due to headline Bagrock in the Valley, at Castlebank Park, in the town on Sunday. South Lanarkshire Council has refused to grant a licence for [...]
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. [...]
Blues festival event organisers are confident in licence bid
TICKETS for a music festival, cancelled last year after the murder of biker Gerry Tobin, are due to go on sale today despite its organisers not having a licence to stage the event. The Rock and Blues Custom Show, a bikers’ music event which was stopped last year after objections by police, is due to [...]
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