Reducing the loo queue this festival season
As some festivals return for the first time in two years, it’s important to consider how you can support your favourite festival and the environment, while still enjoying your weekend.
How to Create Your Next Event With Sustainability In Mind
When it comes to planning any kind of event, there is a lot for you to think about. Whilst you might be thinking about refreshments, music, and décor, how much thought do...
NFT Ticketing: the benefits it can bring to the festival industry and beyond
The global online ticketing system might be worth around $30 billion, but it has been in a state of increasing collapse for a number of years. Customers' trust has long been dwindling,...
Sociable Distancing at the Tatton Park Pop Up Festival
While many were seeing socially distanced events as an alternative during Covid restrictions, Saving Grace Events’ Rebecca Hartley saw it as an opportunity to bring ideas for a new type of...
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...
Festivals’ plastic predicament
According to think-do tank Powerful Thinking, UK music festivals create 23,500 tonnes of waste per year. Several initiatives have been implemented by festivals to combat this waste issue, however there is still...
Sustainability – The Time To Walk The Walk Is NOW
Graham Brown has a bee in his bonnet, he may need to keep it there to preserve that particular species but figuratively speaking, this industry PR and marketing specialist has campaigned enough,...
The F-List and How To Achieve Gender Balance in Line-ups
We asked F-List founder, Vick Bain to outline gender inbalance in festival line-ups and explain routes to solutions. Splendid Events' Eddie Barcan also documents his success in achieving balance when programming for...
In profile – JBM Music.
It’s 10am when Jorge Meehan pops into our Zoom chat and he’s still got his coat on; he’s been in the office for a while but there’s a heating issue and the...
AFO Conference ‘Back To Our Best’
Trade associations, defined as groups of individuals and companies with a common interest, really came to the fore over the past two years. While you get on with the things that directly...
