All funds, plus 50% of Resident Advisor’s booking fees, will be donated to Refugee Action, acharity which helps UK refugees rebuild their lives with dignity and support. Heels & Souls celebrate their 7th birthday on June 1st with a 4-hour party sailing down the Thames,followed by an afterparty at Bermondsey’s Venue MOT Unit 18. To date, Heels & Souls, also areissue label and the DJ duo of Ben Croft and Patrick Forrester, have raised over £40,000 for variouscauses and this party is surely their most ambitious to date, hiring the legendary Dutch MasterParty Boat to take partygoers on a cruise…
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Curated by the Unruly Boss, Popcaan, Pollen presents Unruly Culture Splash Weekender, a four day/four night island takeover of Pag Island, Croatia. Fusing the best in Jamaican, African and UK music & culture, plus unforgettable in-destination highlights to create a unique travel experience. Bringing together sound-system culture from across the globe and its community and highlighting the creativity, wellness, music, food, dance and vibes with lots of surprises in-store, Unruly Culture Splash Weekender promises to be an unforgettable getaway. A stellar itinerary awaits across the 4 days, taking place on the beautiful island of Pag in Croatia. Zrće beach is…
Star Live has announced that it is the exclusive UK distributor for Viewbox – the highlyversatile, aesthetically advanced, innovative modular structure. Viewbox is modular 15m2 metal structure that includes ceiling, flooring, walls, doors and lights.It gives you the opportunity to create your very own space, from hospitality venues and brandactivations to pop-up restaurants, retail units and media studios. Viewbox has beensuccessfully used by some of the world’s leading brands and organisations such as Porsche,Mastercard, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Fendi, Huawei, Microsoft, Samsung and Canada Goose. Viewbox units have a range of design features all tailored towards creating the ultimatemodular solution:Flexible: Multiple configurations…
Charity music festival all dayer Beat the Streets made a welcome return this year to raise vital funds to help homeless people in Nottingham. Back with an in-person event this year after being forced online in 2021, the festival raised £76,000 to provide housing and specialist support to rough sleepers in and around Nottingham. Since its launch in 2018, the festival has become renowned for the vital funds it has raised for Framework and awareness it has brought to the rising homelessness crisis in Nottingham. Beat the Streets has now raised £320,000 in total for Framework, the charity that works…
ecolibrium, the charity on a mission to help the live events and music industry tackle the environmental impacts of travel, launch their latest resource, the Sustainable Travel Guide for Artists and the Music Industry, providing up-to-date information, best practice tips and inspiration to empower the live music industry to understand and take action on its greatest carbon impact: travel. Co-authored by Environmental Consultants Liz Warwick and Chris Johnson part of the Vision: 2025 climate action steering group for live events, the guide builds on information from previous publications by Vision: 2025 and Julie’s Bicycle with input from the team…
Clubbing TV is bringing the electronic music scene’s most iconic accessory into the web3; The Wristband. With massive festivals and clubs partners such as Amnesia Ibiza, World Club Dome, Supersonic, We Are Fstvl, Caprices, Forbidden Forest and many more TBA, The List will comprise of 7777 unique NFT wristbands, each one adorned with a slug coming from the dance music lexicon, with various categories, colors, backgrounds and styles to ensure scarcity and rarity of the items of the collection, each one carrying a piece of rave culture. With 3D modeling, design and concept execution of the project by Broken Egg,…
Bristol’s biggest music festival Love Saves The Day, today launches its sustainability awareness campaign, ahead of its relocation to the iconic Ashton Court over the Queen’s Jubilee bank holiday weekend 2-3 June 2022. This year, the festival will partner with Music Declares Emergency alongside other leading festivals, using the No Music on a Dead Planet pledge as a key communication point for artists and attendees. The week will kick off with a dive into the history and ecosystems which exist at the new location of Ashton Court, a site once popular with free-festivals of old, which has not seen a…
Will Darley’s a few minutes late for our online meeting, a Safety Advisory Group(SAG) meeting had gone on a little longer than expected but it went well, which is not always the case as many will know, but he’s unfazed which, when reflecting on our conversation, is no surprise. We’re together to talk about Access, The Festival, its origins and its development from student club night to 5000 capacity weekend festival. The story begins in 2015 at Warwick University when Darley and his friend Alex Neidhardt put together a club night called Enter, with nights themed on and a DJ…
Boomtown Fair, Boardmasters, Reading & Leeds, Bluedot, Parklife and Shambala among signatories of AIF’s Safer Spaces Campaign. Includes updated Charter of Best Practice, plus new awareness and education campaign 103 UK festivals have committed to The Association of Independent Festivals’ (AIF) Safer Spaces At Festivals campaign, which is aimed at tackling sexual violence at festivals and has been relaunched today to address the issue in 2022 and beyond. Originally launched in May 2017, the initiative today sees festivals commit to an updated charter of best practice developed with input and guidance from experts at Rape Crisis England And Wales, Good…
The global online ticketing system might be worth around $30 billion, but it has been in a state of increasing collapse for a number of years. Customers’ trust has long been dwindling, the security of ticket sales is ever more unsure and financial losses for both buyers and sellers are of increasing concern. Thankfully, the rise of NFT Ticketing and blockchain technology means that things are changing for the better, and fast. The most common complaint in the ticketing market for live music events, conferences, sports and anything else is that buyers worry about whether a genuine ticket or not.…