The Yorkshire Dales Food & Drink Festival, the UK’s biggest weekend food festival, has today announced it is expanding its 2024 line-up to include chart-topping music acts who will join its stellar line up of celebrity chefs. The festival takes place between 19th-21st July 2024 at Funkirk Farm, Skipton. The family-run festival has upped the tempo, evolving its music offering to bring festival goers a weekend’s worth of top-notch bands and artists including Blue, Chesney Hawkes, The Real Thing and Heather Small. The festival, now in its 9th year, will welcome back its celebrity chef friends, James Martin and The Hairy Bikers to the Le Gruyere Big Top Theatre Kitchen,…
Author: Andy Lenthall
Lyte, the technology platform for fans to buy, sell, and exchange tickets to live events, has launched the Lyte Returnable Ticket, the industry’s first business-class and end-to-end ticketing platform. The Lyte Returnable Ticket seamlessly integrates returnability and fair market pricing into a simplified ticket buying experience, elevating event ecommerce for both fans and event creators alike. “Event creators equipped with data intelligence and pricing solutions don’t just increase their revenue potential—they also pave the way for more fans to have richer, more transparent ticketing experiences,” says Ant Taylor, Lyte CEO and founder. “With the Lyte Returnable Ticket, we’re putting fans…
English folk rock band Levellers have been announced as the first headliners for next year’s Little Orchard Cider & Music Festival, taking place at Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm from 13 to 15 September 2024. Now in its eleventh year, Little Orchard Cider & Music Festival is one of Cornwall’s most popular festivals. Super early bird tickets have now sold out, with a limited number of early bird tickets remaining. Featuring big live bands, Orchard Silent Disco, BBC Introducing Stage, Dragonfly Acoustic Stage, plus a host of exciting activities such as Rattler Olympics, the Zen Den Wellbeing Tent, and Mount Hawke…
LIVE, the voice of the UK’s live music industry, is urging the Chancellor to provide vital financial support to the grassroots music sector in the upcoming Autumn Statement. LIVE has unveiled a comprehensive manifesto with five crucial priorities, aimed at safeguarding grassroots music venues and unlocking the economic potential of the wider live music sector: Provide urgent financial support, including an extension to grassroots music venues business rates relief and wider hospitality and leisure relief. Rethink the current Bill on safety at venues, known as Martyn’s Law, to ensure any new measures are practical and protect lives. Remove the barriers…
The Department for Culture Media and Sport, via Arts Council England (ACE) is encouraging grassroots music venues, recording studios, promoters and festivals to apply for grants of up to £40,000 to develop new revenue streams, make repairs and improvements, the grants are available until March 2025. The latest round of funding follows the original Supporting Grassroots Live Music Fund which launched in 2019, providing more than £9m in funding. ACE CEO Darren Henley said, “This investment by the UK Government and Arts Council England reaffirms our commitment to supporting this hugely important part of the music industry. People value the…
A new entertainment industry advisory firm has launched. Spotlight Advisors will specialise in offering financial and commercial services to the UK’s music festivals and live entertainment industry. The UK’s billion-pound live entertainment industry is growing rapidly – driven by the relentless consumer demand for high-quality unique experiences. This year, the industry exceeded its pre-COVID market value and its evolving landscape is introducing fresh opportunities and challenges to operators, including both newcomers and survivors of the 20-21 market conditions. Launched by Leisure investment group Edition Capital, Spotlight Advisors will help redefine the live entertainment business landscape by leveraging decades of industry…
Tremor’s 2024 lineup continues to evolve, promising a captivating 11th edition of this Azorean creative adventure. Eight remarkable artists, joining the previously announced Cole Pulice, Colleen, Glockenwise, Estrela, Jards Macalé, Prison Affair, and Romperayo, bring an array of sounds and styles, ensuring a diverse and dynamic musical celebration. The acclaimed saxophonist and bandleader Idris Ackamoor has re-emerged with Afro Futuristic Dreams. This epic and sprawling work takes us on a musical odyssey through the future, past, and the urgent realities of the present. Performing alongside the superband The Pyramids, his intergalactic journey expands the boundaries of jazz through an afro-futuristic…
Southeast Asia’s influential and innovative 808 Festival is back with a very special 10th edition from 8 – 10 December 2023. The second phase of headliners who will play at BITEC Bangna include Marhsmello, Morten, Barley Alive, Bleu Clair and Ray Volpe with many more to come on top of the first wave names David Guetta, ALOK, Oliver Heldens, Timmy Trumpet, W&W, ISOXO, Joel Corry, Knock2, Restricted and Will Spark. Get your tickets to the most anticipated show of the year at http://www.808festival.net 2023 sees 808 Festival turn ten in epic style. Over the previous nine years, it has built…
We asked Power of Events founder, Rick Stainton, how the organisation’s work can turn confusion into definition. Here is a history lesson. We all know that in the chaos of Covid the whole of the UK events industry shut down – hard and fast. Then, despite very little government support specifically for live events, we were amongst the last to be allowed to re-open for business. The cost to the industry across the four nations of the UK has never been fully identified. Some supply chain businesses pivoted to help support the unprecedented healthcare provision of vaccinations to the UK…
Steve Jenner, TagMix’s Director of Festivals, posits that the universal reliance on paid online advertising is a relic that’s costing events more than it’s saving. He points to a pioneering wave of marketers who are sidestepping this costly gamble in favour of a more potent and pocket-friendly strategy—using high-impact, emotion-driven video content that capitalizes on organic reach and direct audience engagement. Lakefest’s success, marking their first full sell-out in over a decade, credits the innovative approach of TagMix in amplifying their social media reach and engagement, showcasing the potential of this medium. Paid-for advertising on social media platforms is for…