Following its triumphant debut last summer, the magical Electric Woodlands expands to become a two day camping weekend in 2022. This escapist musical weekender plays out deep in the enchanted woods of Bygrave Woods, Newnham, just 30 minutes from London on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd July. Electric Woodlands comes from Louder, the UK’s largest independent electronic music promoter. Their vastly experienced team put on hundreds of club events and festivals each year, encompassing the UK’s most prestigious venues and brands, including Printworks, Ministry of Sound, On The Beach Brighton, Clapham Common, UK-wide O2 Academies, The OVO Arena, Wembley, The…
Author: Andy Lenthall
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is being urged to abandon a massive VAT hike on concert and live event tickets that is due to kick in on April 1. The warning comes ahead of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement on March 23 when he will outline a mini-Budget. UK Music Chief Executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin has written to the Chancellor to highlight the “hugely damaging” impact that a planned Treasury hike in the VAT rate on gig tickets could have on millions of music fans and the music industry. At present, VAT is charged at 12.5% on tickets for live events. However, the Chancellor…
Decibel Open Air is ready to make its grand return with its fourth edition to be held at Parco delle Cascine in Florence, Italy 10th – 11th September, from noon until midnight. MTV, the world’s premier youth entertainment brand, is Decibel Open Air’s official media partner for 2022. In Italy, MTV is broadcast exclusively by Sky Italia and streaming on NOW. After a two-year break due to Covid-19, Decibel Open Air is back with a new location, three stages including a new one and more than 40 artists representing the best international DJs and live acts, with a huge and eclectic…
According to think-do tank Powerful Thinking, UK music festivals create 23,500 tonnes of waste per year. Several initiatives have been implemented by festivals to combat this waste issue, however there is still an association made by the British public that links festivals with mass littering. Here Dr Ashlee Jahnke, Head of Research at biodegradable biopolymer research platform Teysha Technologies, looks at how festival organisers have tried to solve this plastic problem and explains that negative perceptions can be rectified with creativity and persistence. The return of events like Reading Festival were a blessing to many after a long period of…
This week saw the launch of Safer Spaces, a community interest organisation that aims to provide a safe sopace for women and girls who feel overwhelmed, uncomfortable or who have been sexually assaulted, abused or harassed. Safer Spaces’ tents will offer a welcoming safe space where women and girls can come and hang out, use facilities and escape to some calmness. The tents also provide a safe space to report incidents (via private disclosure cabins) and get professional support. It is hoped that by providing spaces like this, more young women and girls will feel better equipped to report incidents,…
Forbidden Forest have just announced a brand new summer partnership with leading global fashion brand Boohoo.com to host an all new live stage, claiming its biggest and best ever line-up to the all new location of The Belvoir Estate in Grantham from Saturday 2nd – Sunday 3rd July 2022. The exclusive boohoo stage will be headlined by award winning, game-changing London rapper AJ Tracey, who is the man behind classics like ‘Ladbroke Grove’ and ‘Little More Love’ which mix up grime, rap and garage in anthemic ways, drum & bass icons Chase & Status (DJ Set), high energy garage legend…
Access the Festival, described by organisers as an open-air, sun kissed summer sizzler that takes place in beautiful British countryside in Sherbourne Park in Warwick, will, for its 2nd edition, be headlined by a tasteful mix of world class DJs from across the global house, disco and techno spectrum including Gerd Janson, Octo Octa b2b Saoirse, Jeremy Underground, DJ Boring, Dan Shake, CC: Disco, Dam Swindle, Crazy P Soundsystem, MATHAME, DJOKO b2b Harrison BDP, Byron The Aquarius b2b Jamie 3:26, Raw Silk and many more to come. Two day, single day, bus trip ad-ons and limited VIP tickets with a…
The Drumsheds signalled the end of its tenure as a groundbreaking temporary venue in London with a series of sold out 10,000-capacity shows, staged by Method Events for Broadwick Live. The venue, which is situated in Enfield, North London, consists of four lofty warehouses on a previously derelict, 10-acre industrial site. It was procured on a temporary lease in Summer 2019 by Broadwick Live, who entrusted the delivery of several high-profile shows and a festival at the venue to Method Events. The lease has now been returned to Enfield Council, which is redeveloping the site as part of its £6bn,…
After a 3 year hiatus Innervisions’ Lost In A Moment is returning. The unique open air event conceptualised by Dixon will take place on Saturday July 9th for the first time globally since the pandemic began and for the first time in the UK for over 6 years. Lost In A Moment was born in 2012 at El Monasterio in Barcelona, breaking grounds in terms of site, natural surroundings, architecture, history and atmosphere. Since then Lost In A Moment has continued to take place under the sky, never full, always airy, operating with unexpected light and unreleased music to challenge…
Love Machine have just announced a bumper lineup for May’s Edition, as they return to the Californian Desert for their latest instalment May 6-9. The “restorative musical and wellness getaway” in the sun-bathed and boulder-strewn mountains of Jacumba, California returns with an all new third stage and tasteful line-up of international musical legends old and new including Roman Flugel, Âme, Doc Martin, Riva Starr, Marc Houle, Colyn, Oliver Koletzki, Jimi Jules, Jennifer Cardini and many more. Located just 75 minutes outside San Diego, organisers describe the event as “an all encompassing mix of art, yoga, music, workshops and lifestyle awareness…