Conleth Maenpaa is the founder of Lindisfarne Festival in Northumberland – a small, boutique and niche festival set on Beal Farm, overlooking the beautiful Holy Island. The festival is a showcase of eclectic music from established and world renowned artists to emerging talent across many genres including indie, rock, dance, funk, soul and folk. As former owner of a leading recruitment agency in London, the festival scene is a new departure for 40-year-old Conleth, but one he always held a great passion for. Here he shares his lessons learned thus far and how he has used his business experience to…
Author: Festival Insights
UK: BoomTown Fair has announced the first batch of artists for the eighth chapter of its immersive, genre-spanning festival. The headliners include three acts that have supposedly been at the top of the BoomTown wish list since day one, namely: Madness, Fat Freddy’s Drop, and Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley. From August 11 – 14, 50,000 citizens will descend on the Matterley Estate, Winchester, amid a theatrical narrative of revolution across nine individually themed city districts with a soundtrack covering many many bases of the musical spectrum. In addition to the three aforementioned headliners, the first wave includes: Koan Sound, Nightmares…
AUSTRIA: Broadwick Live, the creative team behind Snowbombing, has confirmed mobile network Three as its official technology and communications partner for this year’s festival. This year marks the second time that Three – the only UK network that allows its customers to use their phones abroad at no extra cost in 18 destinations, including Austria – has hit the slopes for Snowbombing. Festival attendees on Three will have the freedom to use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram without bills. Three will also host a number of branded experiential areas across the festival as well as sponsoring Snowbombing’s legendary Forest Parties which…
UK: Big Green Coach, the largest UK events travel company, was named ‘Green Supplier of the Year’ at last week’s Festival Supplier Awards. The accolade recognises BGC’s sustainable practices, services and improvements with The Secret Garden Party Festival (SGP) and acknowledges its contribution to sustainability at over 30 of the UK’s most popular festivals in 2015. The ceremony recognises the achievements and hard work of outdoor event suppliers, celebrating the ‘behind-the-scenes’ teams that are the life force of any successful festival. Big Green Coach was shortlisted against strong competition with the judges commenting that they “demonstrated a thorough understanding and…
UK: The Rainbow Venues will celebrate its 12th birthday with Chapter XII festival on March 26, and has confirmed that Richie Hawtin will headline the event. Chapter XII is the Midlands’ biggest inner city festival, and will once again take over a number of unique and industrial party areas, including new spaces The Big Top, The Textile Factory, The Rooftop, The Blackbox and The Arches. Across the backdrop of Digbeth’s railway arches, Chapter XII will host 12 hours of acclaimed house and techno music, bringing some of the biggest names in electronic music to the Midlands. Returning for its third…
EUROPE: ticketscript – Europe’s leading self-service digital ticketing solution – has launched its new ticketshop. The aim of the platform is to change the way event organisers sell tickets, boasting a self-professed beauty of form and function. Founded in 2006, ticketscript now employs over 150 people and its services are used by over 125,000 events, selling over 20m tickets across Europe every year. “I’m incredibly proud of what the team has achieved, both technically and visually,” said Frans Jonker, CEO & Co-Founder of ticketscript. “Every single aspect of the new ticketshop has been refined to create the most seamless ticket…
22 of the UK’s leading independent and grass roots festivals have come together with the aim of raising urgent funds and awareness for refugees in Northern France. The festivals, which include Beatherder, Bestival, Beautiful Days, BoomTown Fair, Camp Bestival, Dimensions, Green Man, Kendal Calling, Love Saves the Day, Larmer Tree, Outlook, Secret Garden Party, Shambala, WOMAD, and many more, have all offered up a pair of festival tickets for the Ultimate Festival Prize Draw, offering 22 lucky entrants the chance to win a pair of tickets to one of these incredible festivals for a donation towards the cause. The bulk…
Aside from being the exclusive music promoters at the fantastic Tobacco Dock, London Warehouse Events works across an array of the capital’s most idiosyncratic venues to promote and produce events spanning electronica, techno, house and more. With LEAF and Red Bull Music Academy among its list of collaborators, LWE is now embarking on its first fully-fledged foray into the festival world with the techno-centric Junction 2 this June. Insights spoke with the three key members of the LWE team: Operations Manager Alice Favre, Artist Booker Will Harold, and Head of Marketing Paul Jack – about what we can expect from…
UK: Tramlines, Sheffield’s award-winning inner-city music festival, has announced the first wave of artists for its 2016 event, which will take place across multiple venues and outdoor stages in the city’s centre from July 22 – 24. Renowned for its eclectic line-up, festival organisers have again delivered a genre-spanning spread of names, with confirmations including headliner Dizzee Rascal, as well as the likes of Young Fathers, Dawn Penn, Goldie MBE, Toddla T, Norman Jay MBE, Amy Becker, Mumdance, Field Music, Hinds, Gwenno, C Duncan, Randall and many more. Now in its eighth year, Tramlines remains one of the most diverse…
UK: European RFID provider PlayPass has confirmed that its first 100% cashless festival in the UK will be Eastern Electrics 2016. The independent dance festival, which sold-out of 15,000 tickets last year, will return with an increased capacity to the 42-acre grounds of Hatfield House on August 6. The event will also feature a new ‘ravey woodland wonderlands’ area, an expanded chill-out space and its strongest line-up yet, bringing many of the world’s most celebrated house and techno artists to its eight stages. The festival is a pioneer with this technology in the UK, having first made the jump to…