What Evolving Technologies and Trends Mean for Music Event Communities
Richard Zijlma is the former Director of Amsterdam Dance Event, where over two decades he helped develop it into the pre-eminent festival & conference for electronic music. He is currently working to curate AVA...
Festival merch shouldn’t cost the earth
Chris Houghton, CEO of The UK Festival Awards' Official Merch partner, Teemill, explains how their sustainable model for branded apparel radically reduces waste and gives customers exactly what they want.
Across the board, consumers are...
Lake of Stars: The Shining Light of Malawi’s Festival Scene
Tom Branston has been producing events since 1995 with Oasis’ What’s the Story tour party. With myriad roles at UK festivals since (Big Chill, Bestival, Camp Bestival, Green Man, BST Hyde Park, Blissfields et...
Fatal Mistakes and How Best to Avoid Them
Steve Kearney is one of the live event industry’s leading Chartered Safety and Health Practitioners. Starting his career as a roadie for The Clash, he worked on subsequent rock tours, becoming increasingly interested and...
From the Food Vendors’ Perspective
Dave Cooper is an environmental activist, food vendor, and organiser of Kentucky’s Whippoorwill Festival.
I operated a food stall at a small music festival in Kentucky a couple of summers ago. My food costs were...
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...
Improving the State of Festival Welfare
Kristin Karas is currently completing her B.S in Public Health Studies with a concentration in Community Health at East Carolina University. She serves as an intern for the US-based harm reduction organisation Dancesafe, managing...
How to Build an Effective Ambassador Program
Liam Negus-Fancey is the co-founder of Vervem, the world’s leading peer-to-peer sales software for live entertainment events. Verve enables event organisers to turn their most influential fans into ambassadors who promote and sell tickets...
AR Will Revolutionise Festivals
Jimmy Woodard is a Business Development Manager at 360 Designs, a leading virtual reality company with expertise in live production and advanced custom cameras. He also has a partnership in place with an award-winning...
What Can Festivals Learn from Extinction Rebellion?
*This article is part of Insider Insights’ Sustainable Summer series, in which we dedicate half of our monthly output to guidance on decreasing the environmental impact of festivals.
Damon Culbert works for The Juice Guru,...
