UK: Kendal Calling has confirmed that its 2015 event, set to take place from July 30 – August 2, will feature a new, four-acre woodland area entitled Lost Eden, inspired by folklore of the Eden Valley. Festivalgoers can wander into the sticks as a respite from the perpetual noise of the main stages, potentially encountering stampedes of opulent stags, weird encounters with mythical creatures inside giant, bespoke installations, costumed parades, spontaneous gatherings, workshops and all manner of art, music and culture. Lost Eden will be home to new performance spaces with packed programmes of audio-visual content, as well as a…
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USA: The trusses above the CMA Music Festival’s main and Satellite stages at Nashville’s LP Field sported a fleet of 10 RF Venue collapsible CP Beam helical antennas. The four-day festival shattered attendance records and featured some of country music’s biggest stars. The show’s RF Designer and Technician, Jason Glass, used CP Beams for both transmit and receive antennas which were available to all guest engineers. Glass is also the owner of Clean Wireless Audio, retained by veteran touring audio provider Sound Image. “This is my third year doing the LP field show,” said Glass. “The lighting rig that encompasses…
UK: UK Festival Award-winning promoters Cream and We Are FSTVL have announced that they have joined forces to present We Are WHSE, provisionally set to take place this Autumn / Winter. We Are WHSE will take over the tunnels of London’s Great Suffolk Street, presenting some of the world’s greatest dance music legends inside one of the UK’s most underground creative spaces. According to the organisers there will be a heavy emphasis on production, with the tunnels packed full of pyrotechnics, LED screens, laser shows and more. For more information, visit We Are WHSE’s official Facebook page.
UK: Glastonbury Festival continued its four decade-long partnership with Serious Stages this year – who once again provided almost 60 structures, including the four main stages, the Temple and the Ribbon Tower, plus multiple indoor stages, media platforms, television camera towers, PA towers and structural supports for video screens and viewing platforms across the 900 acre site. Serious Stages also designed, manufactured and installed the festival’s new ‘Other Stage’, which had a total height of 20 metres and an overall width of 43 metres, along with the addition of the installation on the front facade by artist Joe Rush. From…
NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam Dance Event, scheduled to take place this October, will host a unique installation presented by Arup. Entitled the ‘Leslie Pavilion’, it explores a new application of the spatial audio effect pioneered by Donald Leslie in the 1930s, featuring his signature Hammond organ amplifier with rotating speakers. The installation consists of two hyperbolic paraboloids (hypars) inside which people can play a keyboard and hear a spatialised rotational effect from an moving speaker. This shifts the audio image based on the speaker axis relative to the architectural shape. Each hypar shape focusses and scatters sound in different axes, but when…
Mark Walker is Head of Content Marketing at Eventbrite UK. He writes regularly about topics and trends affecting the festival industry, and how organisers can continue to create better experiences for their fans. Prior to Eventbrite, Mark spent seven years as an event organiser, leading teams across sales, marketing, content and operations. We’ve recently surveyed over 500 event industry professionals for our ‘Pulse Report’ and discovered something remarkable: music festivals are leading the way when it comes to paid promotion compared to the rest of the events industry, e.g. classes, training and workshops; conferences; endurance, sport and races; music festivals;…
SERBIA: In July 2011, The Central Eastern European Talent Exchange Program (CEETEP) became an expansion of the already successful European Talent Exchange Program, which aims to promote the circulation of artists across Europe’s music press and live circuit. During this time, training workshops have taken place annually at Serbia’s EXIT festival, with 2015 being the final gathering for members of the program. Workshops at this year’s event will cover a variety of topics including: Revenue Streams & Export Readiness, Artist / Management Business Model & International Business Partners, International Touring, Music Media & Marketing, Artist / Fan Relationships and more.…
MOROCCO: Taking place from September 11 – 13, Oasis will be the first festival of its kind in Marrakech, offering festivalgoers an unexplored festival paradise in the idyllic surroundings of the Fellah Hotel. Guests at the three-day event will be able to soak up the sun and revel in the spectacular views of the nearby Atlas Mountains, accompanied by a soundtrack of house, techno, disco and electronica. Alongside headline sets from acts including DJ Harvey and Âme, the exotic Moroccan location will also play host to a trio of exclusive back-to-back sessions with Guy Gerber & Matthew Dear in their…
UK: The International Festival Forum (IFF) has announced that John Giddings – organiser of The Isle of Wight Festival and founder of the prestigious Solo Agency – will be the subject of the IFF Keynote at the first edition of the new global music festival industry event. Giddings completes a conference programme that focusses on the interrelationship between music festivals and booking agents. Other topics include The Therapy Session: Difficult Engagements as Glastonbury’s Ben Challis airs the top five grievances between festival bookers and booking agents in a bid to build better understanding between the two camps. Loyalty vs Profit…
UK: With Kendal Calling long sold out and only a month left until revellers descend on Lowther Deer Park for a weekend of music, art and film, the festival has revealed a new partnership with United Utilities – the UK’s largest listed water company. In a bid to phase out disposable water bottles over the next few years, the festival will welcome UU on site to provide some 5000 reusable water bottles to festivalgoers, dramatically decreasing plastic waste in the process. With the protection of the surrounding Lake District of huge concern to the festival, United Utilities will also be…