Recently, at the grande finale for the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) & Antler Startup Competition the winners were announced: Un:hurd and SYNKii. As the main prize both of these companies will raise €100k investment from the global early-stage investor, Antler. The jury also gave out a Jury Prize for Moonai who by winning gets an important role in a new startup community and an opportunity to organize a panel around their business during ADE 2023. Music marketing solution Un:hurd was founded in 2019 by Alex Brees. Un:hurd provides a comprehensive solution for artists to promote their music on various social…
Author: Andy Lenthall
Leaders representing more than 500 festivals and other outdoor events across the UK have combined at the 2022 Sustainable Event Summit to launch a Green Events Code, to establish national minimum sustainability standards, targets and practices. Developed by industry steering group Vision:2025, the Green Events Code is the result of almost a year of consultation spanning trade associations, local authorities, and event businesses and organisations. It is intended to provide clear standards and shared targets for sustainability that are understood and adopted by all stakeholders across the outdoor festival and events industry, including net zero. The code will focus on…
Wild Paths, the independent conference and music festival celebrating the creative music scene in Norwich, recently partnered with Gigseekr to create a ‘platform takeover’ for their 2022 edition, so that audiences could access the timetable of events across the five days. Gigseekr’s App gave Wildpaths a fully branded, dedicated platform carrying all of the festival’s content. Festival attendees experienced seamless branding into the schedule, which organisers could keep updated with live information Wild Paths Organiser Ben Street commented: “We’re really delighted to be working with GigSeekr and the support from their team has been excellent. The App takeover has been…
A total of fifteen outstanding artists have been nominated for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2023. The nominees are: Amelie Siba (Czechia), CMAT (Ireland), eee gee (Denmark), Goldkimono (Netherlands), Hause Plants (Portugal), Jerry Heil (Ukraine), July Jones (Slovenia), Kids Return (France), Koikoi (Serbia), Monikaze (Lithuania), Oska (Austria), Queralt Lahoz (Spain), Sans Soucis (Italy), schmyt (Germany), The Haunted Youth (Belgium). The nominees were announced at the MaMa Music Convention and Festival in Paris on Wednesday 12 October. The Music Moves Europe Awards (MME Awards) is the European Union prize celebrating the emerging artists who represent the European sound of today and…
Sunbelt Rentals has welcomed ecolibrium as charity partner for 2022-23, with both organisations united around a shared commitment to support the live events industry in driving carbon emissions down and positive climate action forward with a focus on tackling the industry’s greatest environmental impact: travel. Sunbelt Rentals are serious about their commitment to lowering carbon emissions and have a target to lower these by at least 35% by 2030. In support of this strategy, they have recently had their Scope 1 & 2 emissions verified by the Carbon Trust against ISO14064-3. Since the introduction of their green vehicle policy over…
Passage, a platform for creating and connecting metaverse experiences, today announced Knostalgia, a hip-hop / martial arts festival in partnership with rapper Philippe Prosper (better known as “Rap Is A Martial Art”). With 3D video chat and spatialized audio, the virtual event will feature the exclusive release and performance of Rap Is A Martial Art’s new project on February 25, 2023. The Knostalgia lineup will feature performances, talks, and appearances by prominent hip-hop and martial artists, including RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan; Martial Club, the fight choreographers from Everything Everywhere All At Once; Cory Gunz; Mickey Factz plus more to…
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world’s largest and most influential club-based festival and conference for electronic music will highlight the leading trends and technologies in the music industry as AI, web3, VR and the Metaverse take centre stage at this year’s edition, where you can even attend as a virtual avatar from anywhere in the world. ADE Pro conference focuses on the business behind electronic music, the future for electronic music and the world surrounding electronic music. With these core focus tracks, the conference hosts in-depth keynotes and discussions with industry leaders at Coachella, Warner Music, Death Row Records, Lightyear,…
Saudi music entertainment company, MDLBEAST, has just released the biggest names in the international and regional music scene confirmed to take the stage for ARAVIA, at Qatar’s ‘Al Rihla’ venue during the 28-day world cup season. As MDLBEAST’s first music event outside the Kingdom’s borders, ARAVIA will take place from November 21 until December 18 this year, with tickets available to the public for purchase starting from QAR 199. Fans can expect a range of international artists to perform across the concert series including Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Afrojack, Fatboy Slim, Steve Aoki, Hardwell, Rae Sremmurd, Tinie and Tyga. The stellar line up…
In partnership with the initiative Music Saves UA founded by the Ukrainian Association of Music Events (UAME), the biggest music festival in Ukraine – Atlas Festival has created a raffle t help fund the humanitarian needs of Ukrainian victims of the Russian invasion. The main prize is a Nirvana lot consisting of an exclusive framed poster and tickets for each show of the Nirvana “In Utero” UK tour of 1994 that never happened due to the death of Kurt Cobain. The item was provided by Riverman Management, who were the organizers of the tour at that time. A donation of…
SeatlabNFT, the innovative new NFT ticketing platform disrupting the event ticketing industry, has announced a new partnership with Berlin-based talent agency The Bliss Office. The Bliss Office x SeatlabNFT collaboration is an exclusive, intimate party taking place alongside the industry-leading Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), On Friday 21st October 2022, The Bliss Office x SeatlabNFT will host an exclusive side party at the popular BAUT Oost venue in Amsterdam. The night will see the likes of Øostil, The Element, Undercatt, Glowal, Cellini and Axel Haube perform to a select crowd of fans and industry-leading professionals. Tickets for the event will be…