The first ever Wide Skies and Butterflies Festival, due to take place on the Raynham Estate in Norfolk between 5 and 7 August, with a line-up including The Vaccines, Hot Chip, Laura Mvula and Natalie Imbruglia. Organisers SMS Event Production Ltd announced the cancellation, citing increased costs and lower than anticipated sales as reasons for the cancellation, adding “For a festival in its first year the combination of these obstacles, as well as a key investment failing to come through, has made it impossible for us to go ahead.” they also announced the winding up of the company.
Author: Andy Lenthall
Tomorrowland, adidas, the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) and Tomorrowland have joined forces to present a LOVE capsule collection designed to reach football and festival fans around the world. The collection consists of some of adidas’ most iconic pieces, with a bold graphic print and playful LOVE sign-off as common themes. The graphic print is inspired and powered by Tomorrowland’s famous fireworks, an explosion of colour; and represents mutual values on diversity, equality, and inclusivity. LOVE, with the Tomorrowland logo as letter O, is a subtle prompt to remind all to celebrate life and each other more. All parties agree that,…
The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has appointed Notting Hill Carnival CEO Matthew Phillip as its new Chair. Phillip is the CEO of Carnival Village Trust, London’s leading Carnival development agency, which is dedicated to supporting and delivering an integrated programme of Carnival arts. In addition to this, Phillip is the CEO of Notting Hill Carnival Ltd, the organisation that manages the second largest street event in the world: Notting Hill Carnival. Phillip is also the Managing Director of Mangrove Carnival Arts CIC, encompassing one of the oldest steel bands in the UK and Mangrove Mas band. Phillip succeeds Jim Mawdsley, who…
EXIT Festival, the two-time winner of Best Major European Festival, will be the first major music event in the world to use blockchain technology to sell NFT tickets for a festival of this size. NFT VIP Gold and NFT VIP Infinite Experience tickets will go on sale June 30th 2022 at midnight CEST via NFT-TiX. Along with tickets, last week EXIT has dropped NFT collections done in collaboration with superstars Maceo Plex and Christina Carmela. With this EXIT has positioned itself as one of the pioneers in the fast expanding music festival metaverse, always following its motto that digital technology is here to…
Beat-Herder Festival has sold out for the fifteenth consecutive year. After a tough two-year hiatus, with heart-breaking beck-to-back postponements, the festival is back for its very first four-day event (14-17 July) celebrating its 15th birthday with Niles Rodgers & CHIC, Hot Chip, The Wailers and many more, at its scenic spot in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire. Co-founder Nick Chambers says: “We’re thrilled that Beat Herder has sold out again, that’s EVERY year now, which is amazing. It’s not only a credit to the festival itself, being fully independent and famed for the electric atmosphere and the attention to detail throughout, it’s also the…
The Ethernyum Project will hold a FESTIVAL MILLENNIUM, one of the biggest music events ever produced in Brazil, with an innovative, thematic, and scenographic concept inspired by the old and new millennium. As has been publicly announced, Norberto Ribeiro da Silva, President of the Ethernyum Project, clarifies that:”We have been developing the Ethernyum Project for almost 10 years. We started the development of the project in January 2011 and now the dream will come true, just when we will come out of the pandemic, with artists and audience in a spectacular reunion of music and love”.Norberto believes that this will…
The UK Music Workforce Diversity Survey tracks progress to boost diversity and inclusion in the UK’s music industry. Led by UK Music’s Diversity Taskforce, the survey focuses on those who work behind the scenes in the industry, rather than those who are on stage and aims to collates data from across the music business including studios, management agencies, music publishers, major and independent record labels, music licensing companies and the live music sector. Launched in 2016, the findings of the survey give the music industry, Government and other stakeholders a critical insight into where improvements are needed regarding diversity and…
Free, self-service XR creation platform Volta XR is to play a vital role in heightening the experience of many festival goers at this year’s Glastonbury. Already being used by artists such as Imogen Heap, DJ Yoda, Maceo Plex, The Blessed Madonna and more, this year the game-changing technology will be front-and-centre at the Gas Tower, Shangri-La as well as on the Greenpeace stage with the HE.SHE.THEY party. It will offer immersive visuals for a handful of artists including Bonobo, TSHA and Jamie Jones. Volta has previously been highlighted as One of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2021 and has been…
A consortium of investors led by Abbey Road Investment Group agrees funding for IAM Entertainment, to fuel new inflow of live shows, movie & TV production in the region Co-Founded by Sonal Vara-Parmar six years ago, IAM Entertainment, one of the Middle East’s most renowned entertainment agencies, has confirmed a multi-million dollar funding round led by Abbey Road Investment Group. This funding will allow the agency to continue its explosive growth across the region through live shows, movie and TV production and talent/artist management. IAM Entertainment built its roots in the music industry, and is responsble for collaborating with and…
In a valiant attempt to make insurance interesting, musical and musician insurers, Insure4Music analysed some data recently and found that Glastonbury tickets could cost more than £78,000 by 2072. Already rumoured to be featuring Coldplay with Keith Richards guesting, the ticket price is calculated by increasing this year’s price by the rate of increase from 1970 to this year, a whopping 27,900%. Of course, this doesn’t take into account any slowing of the rate of increase, nor does it suggest that the price might even drop to £0 like it did in 1971 when it was probably sponsored by MySpace.…