Due to extremely high levels of interest from the industry, it has been decided to extend the deadline for nominations to this year’s UK Festival Awards. Festivals now have until 7 June to submit their event to be included in the following categories: Best Major Festival Best Medium-sized Festival Best Small Festival Best Family Festival Line-up Of The Year Best [...]

NOMINATIONS HAVE opened for the 2011 UK Festival Awards, and festival organisers have until May 30 to submit their events for this year’s scheme. Last year’s sold-out event saw AC/DC, Florence & The Machine, Paolo Nutini and Biffy Clyro honoured, with T In The Park Festival Director Geoff Ellis picking up the Lifetime Achievement Award. Festival Awards Ltd have also [...]

Laura Payne, 20, a student at the University of Cumbria, will be spending this summer at more festivals than you can shake a stick at, after winning the Dream Summer prize draw in this year’s UK Festival Awards. Laura was picked at random from the thousands and thousands of people who voted, to scoop two tickets to every winning festival at the Awards! [...]

AC/DC, Mumford & Sons, Florence & The Machine, Paolo Nutini and Biffy Clyro were all at the UK Festival Awards. The seventh annual award bash, which celebrates the achievements of the UK’s worldleading festival industry, took place at indigO2, part of The O2 complex in London. Rob Da Bank’s Bestival brand continued its meteoric rise picking up the ‘Best Major [...]

Festival Awards Ltd, the independent company that owns and runs the UK Festival Conference & Awards, has appointed former Audience magazine News Editor, James Drury, to the newly created post of Managing Director. James will be responsible for overseeing the development of the Festival Awards brand in the UK and Europe as well as co-ordinating the launch of the brand [...]

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