Alexandra Palace today announces the full line-up for Kaleidoscope Festival 2024. Returning to the People’s Palace on Saturday 13 July, the packed programme features the customary mix of live music, DJs and comedy, ready to entertain thousands, outside and inside, at London’s most beautiful festival site. Re-Imagining some epic dance tunes, the 30 Piece Ministry of Sound Classical Orchestra will headline the Hilltop Stage. Double Grammy Award-winning and five-time Brit award-nominated legends Soul II Soul will be bringing an iconic set, featuring all the classics, to the rolling hills of Ally Pally. The line-up also includes Indie party starters The…
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The artist and musician Brian Eno returns to GEI for the third time in 2024. Having previously headlined the event alongside inspirational Norwegian popstar Aurora and multi-Grammy-Award-winning artist and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier, he will this year share the stage with charismatic Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. GEI16 will feature EarthPercent Hour, which will include a Keynote Conversation with Brian Eno, hosted by EarthPercent’s executive director, Cathy Runciman. Jarvis will later take to the stage during this grand finale, to present his “Biophobia”. GEI is the foremost conference for live sector sustainability. It is organised by green-event pioneers A Greener Future (AGF)…
DHP Family’s Beat The Streets saw huge crowds gather to enjoy a full day of live music on Sunday, with tens of thousands of pounds expected to be added to the fundraising total for Framework from this year’s event. The live music company’s charitable music festival Beat The Streets was launched in 2018 and has raised more than £409,000 to date for Framework over the previous five editions as well as shining a spotlight on the homelessness crisis. The charity works to turn around the lives of rough sleepers in the East Midlands providing housing, health, employment support, and care…
The latest edition of MIDƐM+ has just taken place in Cannes. Bringing together industry professionals and festival-goers from all over the world once again this year, the event has established itself as the benchmark meeting place for the music industry. It featured four days of intense exchanges, punctuated by conferences, talks, masterclasses, screenings, film concerts and workshops to discuss the challenges of tomorrow’s music, and vibrate in unison at concerts by established and emerging international artists open to the general public. A total of 10,000 festival-goers attended this year’s event, including almost 400 students and young professionals, joined by nearly…
Soundcrash and Brixton Disco Festival welcome one of the most iconic figures in music to headline Love Motion, a brand new disco, soul and electronic all-dayer on Friday, 26 July. Pop culture icon Grace Jones will take to the Crystal Palace stage alongside a supportive line-up of incredible talent as part of the South Facing festival. Grace Jones, as singer, actress, author, traveller, artist and revolutionist, has been a shape-shifting, trouble-making meta-presence in the entertainment universe since she emerged as a model in New York City and Paris in the early 1970s. She’ll bring her electric presence to South London…
TicketSellers and ecolibrium have announced the beginning of a 3-year partnership to conduct the UK Festival Industry’s largest ever travel data survey of crew and artists, at the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) Congress, 1st February 2024. It is widely understood that travel and transport is the biggest contributor to carbon emissions at greenfield music festivals, but until now it has been challenging for events to collect all the data they need on contractor and artist travel to measure, understand and reduce emissions. It has also not yet been possible to generate an accurate picture of the true impact of…
Wide Awake Festival, the counter cultural celebration set in Brockwell Park and delivered by Bad Vibrations, LNZRT and the crew behind MOTH Club and The Shacklewell Arms has announced a new batch of exciting additions to their 2024 lineup, including some of the best up-and-coming and established left-field talent around. Welcoming even more eclectic talent to Brockwell on Saturday 25th May, the new lineup announcements include London post-punk figureheads Dry Cleaning, Singaporean experimental artist Yeule, synth-pop icon Johnny Jewel, PC Music star Hannah Diamond, Felt legend Lawrence Hayward brings Mozart Estate to Brockwell, Brighton punks and “Iggy Pop’s new favourite…
The Association of Independent Festivals has launched a new campaign for a VAT reduction on festival tickets that would save many event promoters from closures in 2024. The 5% For Festivals campaign is an awareness campaign that seeks to inform festival-goers about the problems that music festival promoters have faced over the last 5 years, encouraging them to contact their MPs to lobby for a much needed VAT reduction on tickets. Speaking today at the AIF’s Festival Congress, the organisation’s CEO John Rostron warned that the list of UK festivals calling 2024 their final year will continue to grow if…
Revered and acknowledged as a defining voice for new music for over 15 years, Sound City is set to land in force this May with another essential weekend pointing towards the future of new music into 2024 and beyond. With the first details out in the world, Sound City 2024 is shaping up to be a true evolution in the history of this staple of the new music diary – with even more unmissable artists confirmed across the weekend and news of a new-look and industry-leading conference programme. Sound City Forum will bring together those working across the music industry,…
Cross The Tracks has added to the line up for its May Bank Holiday Sunday celebration of jazz, funk and soul in Brockwell Park, London. New names added are; Son Little, David Rodigan, Sekou, Thandii, Summer Pearl, Dargz, Chisholm For President!, oreglo, Ruby Wood and this wave comes on top of an already sterling curation with the likes of Erykah Badu, Madlib (DJ), Venna, Iniko, Neal Francis, Brainstory, Yazmin Lacey (DJ), BADBADNOTGOOD, En Vogue, Eve, Thee Sacred Souls, The Cavemen., Romare LIVE, Gilles Peterson, Ella Knight and many more. After four successful iterations, this fifth edition of Cross The Tracks…