CROATIA: Action Bronson, Pusha T, Evidence (Dilated Peoples), Just Blaze and Tim Westwood are amongst the new wave of acts set to take to the stage this summer at Croatia’s leading hip-hop, R&B & urban music festival, Fresh Island. For the first time ever, the festival will host a special UK grime takeover with Noisey, featuring grime prodigy Stormzy, MC Big Narstie and DJ Target. Renowned for supporting talent across the globe, Fresh Island welcomes legendary DJ Cut Killer (FR), Haftbefehl (GER), Rytmus (SK), Big J (AT) and DJ / rap team up Wich & Vladimir 518 (CZ). The new…
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UK: The team behind the publication of the Purple Guide, The Events Industry Forum (EIF), has announced that two grants of £2500 each have been awarded. The first goes to welfare specialist Penny Mellor to produce a “Welfare Handbook” for events, collating information on protocols and procedures for providing welfare services at all types of event. The ‘handbook’ will be published by EIF as part of the Purple Guide. The second grant goes to the Association of Festival Organisers to fund six event students to attend their conference where they will have the opportunity to interface with the real world…
UK: The AIF and AFO have recently launched an industry-wide survey as part of an initiative to develop a green manifesto for their members. Working with Kambe Events, the company behind award-winning green festival Shambala, this will be the largest ever industry survey on this topic, exploring what festivals are already doing, what matters to them, and what support they need to take action to green their events. The survey will reach out to over 300 UK festivals, and results will be presented back later in 2015. You can take part in the two minute festival survey here. Chris Johnson,…
One of the current bugbears of attending any ticketed event is the hassle that ensues when the tickets need to be delivered via post. It’s not only an expensive addition to what can already be a costly outing, but it’s an added inconvenience for the millions of the population that work during the day, particularly if it then involves having to pick the tickets up from a post office at an awkward time. Strikes and other acts out of the hands of the promoters can wreak havoc with delivery times and each year hundreds of tickets are lost in the…
June Calvo-Soraluze studied Business Management, specialising in Strategic Management at Deusto Business School in Bilbao. She extended her knowledge of management at University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and at Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. In the latter, she received her MBA degree and developed the idea of her master thesis, entitled ‘Understanding leadership in Music Festivals: The analysis of management dilemmas’ published by Lambert Academic Publishing in which she combines her two specialist areas: leadership and music. She has also published other papers related to these two topics in different international journals and books. She is…
UK: PRS for Music has today announced that it will be running an eight-week consultation on the terms of its Popular Music Concerts Tariff (‘Tariff LP’). The tariff is applied to ticketed live popular music events such as concerts and festivals. Paul Clements, Commercial Director, PRS for Music commented: “The live music sector has changed dramatically since 1988, when the current tariff was set by the UK Copyright Tribunal. The purpose of this consultation process is to engage with our customers and members, to provide an open dialogue in reviewing PRS for Music’s Tariff LP. As a membership organisation, we…
UK: Festival No.6 has confirmed that experimental electro-pop pioneers Metronomy will be the third and final headliner at this year’s event, set to take place from September 3 – 6 in the Mediterranean simulacrum of Portmeirion, Wales. Topping the bill with legendary disco diva Grace Jones and indie pop darlings Belle & Sebastian, Metronomy promise to usher in even more diversity to the 2015 line-up. Joe Mount of Metronomy said: “After 18 months of touring Love Letters it felt like we needed to find the perfect setting for our final show, I believe we have found it! We can’t wait…
AUSTRIA: With blizzards and boarding abound, Broadwick Live’s Snowbombing was certainly not a run-of-the-mill festival – and neither was Intellitix’s cashless and access control deployment. To give faultless signal across the entire site, the team devised a bespoke solution that included installing the system’s antenna 1,250m above the festival site from April 6 – 11. Over 7,000 people flocked to Mayrhofen – in the heart of the Austrian Alps – to throw some shapes on the slopes and the dance floor. The week-long snow-fuelled festival saw acts including Basement Jaxx, MK, Skrillex and Rudimental provide the non-stop entertainment. This year,…
UK: The Pop Up Hotel has chosen Topher Ltd. to provide 24-hour security for its compound at Glastonbury Festival, from June 15 – July 3 2015. Topher will provide day and night security for the Pop Up Hotel compound that includes the self-catering The Pop Up Motel area. Topher will also provide stewarding and traffic management services to The Pop Up Hotel during the three days of the festival, which takes place from June 24 – 26. The Pop Up Hotel has been providing hotel-standard ‘glamping’ facilities to festivals, events and impromptu resorts since 2011. Glastonbury this year will be…
UK: Some of the biggest names in dance and electro music have been confirmed to perform at Boardmasters 2015. Groove Armada (DJ set), Skream, Blonde, Fred V & Grafix, Fono, 99 Souls, Fickle Friends, Vaults, Astronomyy and Movie will be performing at Cornwall’s biggest surf and music festival, which takes place from August 5 – 9. As well as Bastille, Rudimental and Faithless, performances across the weekend will also come from already announced Clean Bandit, Everything Everything, De La Soul Live, Roni Size Reprazent, Duke Dumont, Raleigh Ritchie, Nick Mulvey, Lower Than Atlantis, Reef, MNEK, Sunset Sons, DJ EZ and…