Evolution Dome has completed its second deployment as part of a series of five for Run Social’s debut FNL XL Festival Series. The event welcomed over five hundred attendees for an evening of lights, music and fitness at Olympic Park on 17 May. The festival was created in response to the growing demand for Friday Night Lights, a networking event that provides a healthy, fun, and alcohol-free platform for the community. Its pilot event drew in hundreds of runners for a 7.5 and 5K night run, and post-run social, at Battersea Park in March A spokesperson for Run Social explained,…
Author: Andy Lenthall
Finland’s Weekend Festival returns to Espoo’s new Vermo Arena for a second time on August 2 and 3 2024 with a mouthwatering line-up of global dance superstars. From spotting a gap in the market and launching in 2012, Weekend has become the leading Electronic Music Festival in Finland, as well as the organisation behind the growth in the scene. We had questions for Event Director, Lola Loog. How did the concept for Weekend Festival come together? In Finland early 2010’s there wasn’t any festivals that brought Electronic music to the scene and for longer haul we wanted to bring that…
Crooked House in The Park is back for its much fourth edition in the beautiful city of Lichfield on August 25th 2024. This spectacular Midlands gathering plays out over multiple stages with world class names from across the house, garage, trance, reggae and drum & bass spectrum. Crooked House in The Park is an immersive summer showcase, dedicated to celebrating electronic dance music in all its glory. . It has sold out its last two editions and is back with high-spec stage designs including the Trance Shed and Rum & Reggae Beach. Adding to the unforgettable experience, the 12-hour festival…
Camden Courtyard is an all-new oasis of inner city culture coming to the heart of Camden Town on 4th July. The 300 capacity, open-air space will offer something for all munchers and groovers with an eclectic music programme, mouthwatering pizza and dumplings and frozen slushy cocktails for slurping in the sun. The brand new open air space is from the owners of Electric Ballroom and is nestled away on newly repurposed land beside the historic music venue. It is designed and built by Fables Creative who are responsible for building stages at Gala, Gottwood and Waterworks Festivals. Kate Fuller, Owner…
Herefordshire’s El Dorado Festival announced its cancellation yesterday (May 21) citing “a dramatic rise in operational costs… compounded by the impact of the increased cost of living on the festival industry and our community”. According to the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), without intervention, it’s expected that the UK will see over 100 festivals disappear in 2024 due to unpredicatable rising costs. With 96 events lost to Covid, 36 in 2023 and 40 to date in 2024, the total number of UK festivals to have disappeared since 2019 is 172. Without having had a single steady season since the pandemic…
EXIT and UNICEF have launched the LIFE IS LIVE campaign to tackle the problem of digital addiction, urgently drawing attention to the alarming extent it has reached. It is estimated that over a billion people worldwide suffer from digital addiction and that it now surpasses all other forms of addiction combined, including alcohol, tobacco, and narcotics. The current estimate of the average time spent in front of mobile, computer, and TV screens amounts to an astounding 20 years of one’s life, while the average mobile phone user touches their device 2,617 times a day. Giving an advantage to digital identity…
A novel yet lifesaving approach to ticketing has seen Romania’s largest music festivals, UNTOLD and Neversea, co-ordinating the longest-running national blood donation campaign, reaching its 10th edition this year. Since the Blood Network campaign began, over 18,000 donors saved more than 60,000 lives. This year, the call to action to help those in need runs from May 18th to June 30th. Donors attend the mobile donation facility, which will visit ten cities in Romania and the transfusion centers across the country. Those who donate get free tickets to UNTOLD Festival, one of the biggest music festivals in the world, or…
VIKIN, a new entrant into the Event Technology space, has announced the launch of its new festival and events app platform. Developed with a focus on innovation and user experience, the VIKIN platform offers festivals the opportunity to create branded and customised apps, changing the way attendees engage with events. The VIKIN platform boasts an array of market-leading features designed to enhance the festival experience for both organisers and attendees. Among its standout features are: ● Intelligent Search: Empowering attendees to easily navigate through festival schedules and activities. ● Interactive and Content-Rich Maps: Providing detailed maps that allow attendees to…
Winner of the fan vote at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Baby Lasagna will be kicking off the 24th edition of the EXIT festival. Following Konstrakta’s virtuoso performance at the Fortress in 2022, Baby Lasagna is the first regional artist to headline EXIT. “We are extremely proud that someone from our region emerged victorious among the Eurovision audience, especially with a rock and roll number. It’s fantastic to see urban sounds gaining more prominence at Eurovision,” said EXIT festival founder and director Dušan Kovačević. Baby Lasagna, also known as Marko Purišić, first appeared as a solo artist less than a…
Events By B3 Ltd, the company behind the Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival has entered into liquidation with Jonathan Amor and Richard Oddy, licensed Insolvency Practitioners with Azets engaged to manage the CVL (Creditors Voluntary Liquidation). The festival, held during the third week in July at Funkirk Farm, near Settle, began in 2015 and expanded rapidly, attracting over 30,000 visitors, 200 exhibitors and a diverse schedule of entertainment, street food, pop-up restaurants, workshops, food tasting and masterclasses from leading food and drink celebrities. The Festival is thought to be the largest of its kind in the UK and is…