NTIA recently launched a partnership with ‘Where You At’ (WYA), the new female-founded nightlife safety app which solves the problem of losing friends in busy festivals and venues. Combining the power of bluetooth technology and precise in-app mapping, the innovative app is currently being piloted across several venues in London and Nottingham. The Launch event, at London’s E1,featured an art exhibition, a panel talk about safety in the nightlife industry with speakers from across the sector. The evening also demonstrated how WYA’s innovative application of Bluetooth technology functions, allowing attendees to navigate around the venue via the app and locate…
Author: Andy Lenthall
International conference and showcase festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW) will celebrate its 15th edition 10th – 15th May 2023 by bringing 176 acts from 41 countries to the Estonian capital. The music programme will open on Thursday, 11th May in the new pavilion of Tallinn Art Hall in the exciting new development at Lasnamäe near the Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, introducing new audiences and unveiling the annual spring exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Union. The picturesque Old Town, the hip Telliskivi Creative City and Noblessner districts will also play host to artists from all over Europe, North and South America, Canada, Africa and the Middle East. Notable international acts include Baltimore’s experimental…
UK Music has been collaborating with partners from across the creative sector – including film, television and theatre – to set up the new Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA). The aim of the proposed CIISA cross-industry body will be to uphold and build on existing best practice across the sector, including providing additional wellbeing support and insight, policy initiatives, advocacy, influence and reporting. Recent initiatives in the music industry have seen the launch of the charity Help Musicians’ Bullying and Harassment helpline, support for training modules and the development of a music-wide framework aimed at prevention – with codes…
Taking place from the 24th to 26th of May 2023 at the prestigious Brighton i360 beachfront complex, the 2023 Brighton Music Conference will welcome some of the biggest names in the electronic music scene from the past, present and future including; ABSOLUTE., Alon Shulman, Carly Heath (Night Time Economy Advisor Bristol), Camden Cox, Carly Wilford, Carl Cox, Charlie Tee, Chris Goss (Hospital Records CEO), Dave Clarke, Fabio & Grooverider, Frankie Wells (Foundation FM), Irvine Welsh (Author), James Hype, Jenni Cochrane (Get Ahead), Jocelyn Brown, Jon Carter, Jumping Jack Frost, Just Her, Kitty Bartlett (Percolate), Krafty Kuts, lau.ra, Leftwing:Kody, Lisa Moorish,…
After a brief period of cork-popping for those looking to pop more than £40k per in pension pots at imminent risk of bursting through the £1m lifetime allowance (no, me neither), the live entertainment business carried out a thorough but ultimately fruitless search for moves that support our journey from miraculous survival to re-established pillar of our cultural economy. Still, at least he didn’t take anything away…just. The mood was expertly encapsulated by LIVE CEO, John Collins: “In today’s Budget, the Government has missed a golden opportunity to support the hardest hit in our sector, as well as turbocharging the…
After receiving an award for Best Innovation at the U.K Festival Awards, EXIT has entered into a multi-year collaboration with ticketing platform NFT-TiX for its upcoming festivals and events. Last July, EXIT, a multiple Best European Festival Award winner, became the first major music event in the world to use blockchain technology to sell NFT tickets for an event of this size, enabling the purchase of tickets on a decentralised ticketing platform. It was this project that won the U.K Festival Innovation Award mentioned earlier and it has now been shortlisted for the Disruptor Award at the Ticketing Business Awards,…
Musician and song-writing legend Graham Nash OBE has been announced as the headliner for The British Country Music Festival, as he returns to the town of his birth to perform at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Nash, who rose to fame as a founding member of both the Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash(CSN), was awarded the “Legendary Spirit of Americana Free Speech in Music” award atAmericana Fest in Nashville and the “Lifetime Achievement Award at the UK Americana Awards in 2017. Nash was inducted twice into the Songwriters Hall of Fame for his work with Crosby Stills & Nash. Marina…
Soul Town Festival has announced that Magic Soul Radio will be hosting their main stage this year. Newly announced additions to the line-up include Mica Paris, Eban Brown from the Stylistics, Odyssey, The Dualers, Dawn Penn, joining the likes of UB40, Sister Sledge ft Kathy Sledge, Tunde Baiyewu (Lighthouse Family), Desmond Decker & The Aces, Edwin Starr Band and Omar on September 2nd and 3rd 2023 at the new and improved location of Croydon Recreation Ground in Beckenham. The two-stage weekend celebration of soul, disco, Motown and reggae will see Magic Soul’s key presenters hosting proceedings, while teams on the…
Star Live, the specialist production agency, has agreed to sell its mobile seating and stage fleet to Actavo Events for an undisclosed sum. The deal includes mobile grandstands, 10 metre mobile stages and a 15m mobile orbit stage. The two businesses will work closely to ensure a smooth transition for all Star Live contracts. Having established itself in the UK in 2010, Actavo Events has steadily built a reputation as a trusted event infrastructure supplier providing Layher event scaffolding structures, fencing and barriers to a wide range of clients. The addition of the mobile business complements Actavo’s growth strategy for…
At the recent Night Time Industry Summit, we met up with the good people at help me Angela, an organisation with a mission to enhance personal safety. Using a suite of tools that sit behind an app, they may well have the answer for those that don’t feel confident about attending festivals. We asked them to explain: With the festival season approaching, many of us will start to plan our kit list, ensuring we are well prepared for the event. ID, ✔️, wet wipes, ✔️, sun cream, ✔️, portable mobile phone charger, ✔️. The list is endless. One thing however,…