With 12,000 fans expected to attend BEON1X Open Mind Music Festival recently added global house and techno talents Gonçalo, Matador, Maceo Plex, Nick Warren and more to the lineup. The events in Cyprus run from 23rd – 25th September and 30th September to 2nd October, with other names like Carl Cox, Boris Brejcha, Jamie Jones, Luciano, Paul Kalkbrenner live, Satori live, Sasha / John Digweed, Sven Väth, Deborah De Luca, Chelina Manuhutu, Fatima Hajji, Guy J and more playing Organisers claim that the festival is set to change the scene in Cyprus for good. It is a bold and ambitious…
Author: Andy Lenthall
Weezevent is reporting record deployment figures for their cashless solution in 10 countries, namely France, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and Canada, thus placing the company as the most widespread cashless provider in the market. Between June and July this year, more than 200 events have already implemented Weezevent’s cashless technology to manage their Food & Beverage sales, including iconic events such as the Paleo Festival in Switzerland, Ed Sheeran and Les Ardentes in Belgium, Hellfest and Vieilles Charrues in France, Interstellar and Cruïlla in Spain, Boom Festival in Portugal, Novarock in Austria, and Splash Festival in…
SeatlabNFT have announced that industry expert Paul Kelly is joining the team. The Australian brings a wealth of top-level commercial and marketing experience that will be invaluable to SeatlabNFT’s continued growth. SeatlabNFT has developed a game-changing, NFT-powered event ticketing system that artists and event organisers can utilise to regain control of the secondary market. Furthermore, it prevents counterfeiting while bringing fans and artists closer together through exclusive rewards and collectables; they have also announced their £1,000,000 Event Creator Fund to help artists and event organisers with the cost of running live events. This vital new hire is another bold step…
Embark is a brand new global music and arts festival taking place from 31st August-3rd September 2022 at St James’s Church Piccadilly, in central London. The event brings together performers and artists from around the world, as well as showcasing visual art, spoken word and performances, under the festival’s thematic banner of migrations, journeying, storytelling and the crossing of thresholds. This year, as a first iteration, the festival is focussing on musicians whose influences and lived experiences are drawn from the UK, and around the world. The impressive, thoughtfully curated line-up includes Mercury Prize winning percussionist, producer and composer, Talvin…
World renowned London music venue the Roundhouse announces Roundhouse Rising Festival 2022, alongside a new brand partnership with global multi-platform media company VICE Media Group. The five-day flagship event will take place from Tuesday 4th October to Saturday 8th October 2022. This year, VICE will curate the festival’s opening night on Tuesday 4th October, featuring a diverse line-up of some of the most promising new names in music, and offer £1 tickets to those aged 30 and under across all shows. The first line-up names announced today include multi-hyphenate artist and creator from Brooklyn, New York, Talia Goddess. Talia merges…
A new study from Juniper Research has found the total number of merchants deploying soft POS solutions will surpass 34.5 million globally by 2027; rising from 6 million in 2022. This growth will be driven by Apple’s entrance into the soft POS space; enabling iOS users to access an affordable mobile POS solution. Soft POS enables NFC enabled smartphones or tablets to accept contactless payments, without additional hardware. The research forecasts that Apple’s decision to enable third parties to develop soft POS solutions leveraging iOS NFC capabilities will result in an influx of iOS-specific services; leading to innovative solutions for…
Serious Stages rounded off an incredible festival summer, supplying Reading and Leeds festivals with two TZ Roof main stages and multiple platforms, hosting a line-up featuring Dave, The 1975 and The Artic Monkeys, 26th – 28th August 2022. Serious Stages’ contribution to the UK’s first full festival season since 2019 saw 140 stages built across 28 festival sites in the UK. This combined 36 stage roofs, plus tented platforms, hosting in excess of 2,000 artists, along with installing custom-designed front-of-house towers, assisted viewing platforms, speaker delay towers and creative installations. Serious has focused on large-scale engineering and logistics solutions across…
With only 13% of festival headliners this year reported to be women or minority groups*, it’s refreshing to hear that MABEL was one of the headliners at LooseFest this weekend. MABEL performing her “empowering” new banger GOOD LUCK, with the international female music artist the penultimate set closing the weekend. Rapper will.i.am and his band Black Eyed Peas were the Saturday headliners with the crowd going wild when the “new Fergie”, J. Rey Soul (real name Jessica Reynoso) performed. The rapper and his group were halfway through the show and performing recent hit ‘GIRL LIKE ME’, when he dramatically brought…
Sustainable impact brand Ocean Bottle have partnered with Wilderness Festival 2022 to keep festival goers hydrated with their hydration station. For every refill made at the station Ocean Bottle will collect 10 plastic bottles that would have otherwise been heading to the ocean. The hydration station is a lifeguard-themed activation that highlights Ocean Bottle’s mission to stop 7 billion plastic bottles from entering the ocean by 2025. The Ocean Lifeguards aim to rescue the people of Wilderness from any thirst whilst actively stopping plastic from reaching our ocean Ocean Bottle exists to bring people together to turn the tide on…
Liverpool-based tech firm Qbunk has announced its latest strategic partnership, with the company set to provide its seamless bar ordering experience, by delivering brand new Apple till systems and complete IT operations alongside Connectus, at the Reminisce Festival 2022. With the old skool music festival located in Sherdley Park, St Helens, set to return for its eighth year in September, Qbunk will be bringing their state-of-the-art technology and expertise onto site, to have 100% utilisation of the six-big top arenas, VIP experience and all bars, to ensure that the circa 20,000 revelers are served and catered for in the fastest…