FINLAND: The carbon footprint of the main production of Flow Festival is calculated each year, so that the organisers can follow and develop their environmental work and compensate for the festival’s carbon footprint. The calculations for 2015 are in, and they prove that Flow has succeeded in its goals once more. The carbon footprint of the Flow Festival has been compensated since 2009 by supporting renewable energy ventures, making it a completely carbon neutral festival. This year Flow supports VCS and CCBS certified forest conservation project in Zimbabwe. The carbon footprint calculations for Flow Festival 2015 show that the reutilisation…
Author: Festival Insights
CANADA: The Ottawa Bluesfest is one of the ten largest festivals in North America. This year, around 300,000 fans heard over 250 acts on various stages, including Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kanye West, Keith Urban and Deep Purple. Ottawa-based rental company Wall Sound was responsible for sound reinforcement for the entire event, including the Claridge Homes stage (the second-largest at the festival) – for which they relied on the new X-Line Advance line-array system from Electro-Voice. An Electro-Voice N8000 system controller distributed the audio signal to TG7 power amplifiers, which in turn supplied the new X-Line Advance X2 loudspeakers. The entire system…
UK: UK festival management marketers are about to have access to another weapon to use in their marketing arsenal with the UK launch of FestivalMonitor, Europe’s leading festival monitor which is now being made available to the UK market for the first time. With the audience footfall increasing, the festival scene is rapidly growing and no niche is left unturned – be it music, dance, science or literary festivals every taste is now widely catered for. So the big question for any festival organiser is ‘How do I stand out from the ever expanding crowd?’ and that is where the…
USA: Following three days of heavy rainfall, TomorrowWorld left many of its attendees stranded on the festival’s Saturday night after cancelling all planned shuttle busses. The festival also effectively closed its doors to day ticket-holders on the Sunday by denying access to the site’s car parks. TomorrowWorld has now issued a contrite statement in response to a heavily publicised backlash against the event. The following is an excerpt from the statement: ‘We understand and hear your frustrations and disappointments in the developments at TomorrowWorld over the last weekend. Our only goal was to create together with you the best weekend…
SWITZERLAND: Mojo Barriers supplied Gatekeeper access control barriers to Zurich OpenAir for the first time this summer. Working in conjunction with cashless payment system provider Starticket, Mojo Barriers provided 20 Gatekeeper units, and over six different entrance & exit points across the event site. The Starticket software was controlled by a central computer, with their sensors integrated into Mojo’s access control barriers, helping to reduce queuing times and necessary manpower, whilst also improving crowd safety through the audience ingress. Mojo Barriers CEO Cees Muurling said: “This was the first time we worked together with Starticket. Starticket built the interface, which…
UK: Glamping guru Kate Morel was right on the money when she predicted the success of the Glamping Show, an event totally dedicated to the fledgling industry of luxury camping. Glamping made its mark at Stoneleigh Park last weekend, with nearly 1,000 visitors walking through the doors in the first hour. Visitors arrived from all corners of the UK including established ‘glampsite’ owners, wanting to learn about the latest trends and innovative ways on how to continually improve their business as well as visitors who are planning to open their own glampsite. All were welcome and with nothing to distract…
SWITZERLAND: Stageco was the supplier of staging and other temporary structures at Energy Air, the annual event that has become regarded as the grand finale for the summer music festival season in Switzerland. Organised on behalf of radio station NRJ, the second Energy Air concert at Berne’s Stade de Suisse on Saturday September 5 attracted 40,000 fans with a five hour line-up of artists that included Robin Thicke, Hurts, Kygo and Remady & Manu-L along with 14 other national and international acts. Working closely with technical production co-ordinator Marco Güntensperger of Bullitt Productions, Stageco operations director Tom Bilsen managed the…
SOUTH AFRICA: Euphoria Music Festival is a five-year young, US-based electronic and dance music festival, and in 2015 will expand to include two dates in South Africa. Promising to be a sound and light spectacular, combining cutting-edge visual elements and stage design, Euphoria Music Festival aims to create a unique combination of togetherness with nature, new friends, and the best in electronic, deep house and indie South African music. Launching the South African shows, Huddle Park in Johannesburg will host Euphonik, Kyle Watson, Chunda Munki, Felix Laband and Matthew Mole on November 1. Three weeks later, Pretoria will be set…
UK: This November, Community will take over the creative hubs of Shoreditch and Hoxton for three days, playing host to new and emerging talent across 11 well-established East London venues and a collection of re-imagined spaces. From hip hop and grime to indie, rock and electro pop, Community will showcase a genre diverse line-up of acts hotly tipped for 2016. Over 60 acts have now been announced including Blonde, Petite Meller, Vince Staples, Clean Cut Kid, RAT BOY, and Hacktivist, plus many more. Tickets are now on sale via Ticketweb. Community will introduce a global spectrum of acts in an…
RUSSIA: EDM Festivals have mushroomed in popularity and scale over the past few years, branching out into a truly global phenomenon. Recently, Russian EDM fans gathered en masse to groove at the Alfa Future People Project. Held from July 17 – 18 in Russia’s Nigniy Novgorod region, the event featured visuals from lighting designer Larikova Marina, who worked with set designer Shlyamin Pavel on the overall design. Larikova created an all-encompassing display of lasers, effects and automated lighting, all controlled by High End Systems’ Hog control platform. Larikova said the team started pre-production one month before the event, using LTC…