Halloween Town – A rarity, a new festival in 2021.
Any new festival is worthy of investigation, but launching in 2021 after mass postponements, cancellations and a supply-chain busting condensed season is the stuff of nightmares. Welcome to Halloween Town.
Latitude Festival
35,000 revellers ventured down to the remote and idyllic Henham Park for Latitude’s illustrious tenth anniversary last weekend, and it seemed like at least 60% of them were under the age of twelve. Sober...
Politics Of Dance – Unum Festival Expands Albania’s Cultural Offer
Albania probably isn’t on your holiday destination bucket list but Unum, the festival that attracts dance music fans from around the globe, may well be the catalyst for a change in perception,...
From Beach Bar to Festivals, Growing Tunes in the Sand.
From Beach Bar to Festivals, Growing Tunes in the Sand.
Becoming a festival owner wasn’t exactly Tommy Job’s destiny, but his dad, Bob's acquisition of a beach bar near home on Cornwall back in the...
Martyn’s Law, Our Duty To Protect
Figen Murray isn’t a born campaigner, but she’s a successful campaigner; diminutive in stature, she walks tall, stands firm and fights hard. It’s what any mum would do for their child but...
Beat-Herder – A Festival With a Sense of Re-Purpose
Accreditation in a former mobile chlamydia screening unit disguised as a train carriage? A swimming pool under a roof supported by the ribs of an old boat? If the Wombles ran a festival, surely...
An Interview With the DHP Family
If you live in Nottingham and enjoy such things as leaving the house at night and having fun then chances are you’ll have set foot in at least one DHP Family establishment. Rock City,...
In Conversation with Marcel Mingers of Extrema Outdoor
Marcel Mingers started promoting both indoor and outdoor house events around The Netherlands in 1992, shortly after being 'infected' by the genre's ascendancy in Belgium. In 1996 he took the leap into festival promotion...
And the winners of the UK Festival Awards 2017 are…
The UK Festival Awards held its 14th edition on November 30 at Troxy, London. The sold out ceremony saw hundreds of the UK's key organisers and suppliers come together to celebrate the collective successes...
An Interview with Wild Rumpus
Perhaps most renowned for producing the award-winning family-oriented Just So Festival, Wild Rumpus is a not-for-profit arts organisation that also manages the Northern Festivals Network and is responsible for The Lost Carnival, Day at...
