UK: Wickerman Festival has revealed that the Phoenix Tent, a new contemporary music stage, will debut this July. Hosted in partnership with Drowned in Sound, one of the UK’s leading music websites, its line-up will feature a series of talented new and established artists from the UK and beyond. Acts announced for the Phoenix Tent are: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Paws, Olof Arnalds, Rick Redbeard, Kathryn Joseph, Man Of Moon, Miaoux Miaoux, Neon Waltz, Heyrocco, Zachary Lucky, BMX Bandits, Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells, Bill Ryder Jones, Slug, Anna B Savage, Emma Pollock, Alias Kid, Kloe, and…
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WORLDWIDE: Award-winning technology start-up Crowd Connected, developer of the patent-pending Colocator platform, has announced that it has signed a major collaboration agreement with Movement Strategies. Colocator is a smartphone-based ‘location as a service’ platform that is powering a new generation of location insight services. Combining multiple positioning techniques, Colocator provides real-time positioning data with unrivalled accuracy, delivering a completely cross-platform, ‘works anywhere’ solution. The leading-edge technology is compatible with iBeacons, but instead of using them to trigger proximity based marketing messages, it analyses aggregated signal strengths to enhance location accuracy, increase reach and maximise energy-efficiency. Under the agreement, Movement Strategies…
GERMANY: gerdon MEDIADESIGN’s Thomas Gerdon created a lighting extravaganza at Dortmund’s Mayday Festival, in what has become an essential fixture in the calendar of Germany’s electronic dance music fans. Gerdon has been igniting the Mayday dancefloor since 2012 with far-reaching concepts for promoters I-Motion, often integrating LED fixtures from the GLP catalogue. “It is always a challenge to produce an entirely new design every year — especially as it should never remind guests of something they have already experienced previously,” he said. “For this reason, I try to use new and innovative products, and find ‘tools’ that give me the…
UK: Rob Hallet, AEG Live’s former president of live touring, has secured a position on the management team of Hertfordshire-based festival Standon Calling. Hallet will bring his new venture Robomagic on board, a ‘360’ promotion company that has worked with the likes of D’Angelo and Sleaford Mods. Hallett said: “I am thrilled about Robomagic’s first festival connection and look forward to working with the existing management team towards the growth of one of the UK’s most exciting and innovative events.” Standon Calling Director Nick Lawrence added: “Securing Rob’s involvement is a major step forward. We strongly believe that the combination…
USA: American Music & Sound, an official sponsor of Electric Forest, will demonstrate the latest products in electronic music technology at the festival. Demos will be conducted in the Electric Glen, where festival enthusiasts can speak with industry professionals and have a hands-on experience with gear from Allen & Heath’s Xone, Reloop, Nord, Lewitt, Studio Logic, and Novation. Specific models available to play with include the Xone: 43C, Reloop’s RP-8000 Straight, Nord’s Electro 5, and other products distributed through AM&S. Darren DeSouza, National Sales Manager for DJ Products is excited to be representing AM&S at the music festival. “The Electric…
UK: Launching at Glastonbury this year, three businesses are aiming to reduce the amount of edible food that is unnecessarily discarded at the end of festivals. FareShare Southwest has joined forces with The Nationwide Caterers Association (NCASS) and A Greener Festival to donate unsold food to a range of charities. The organisations will work closely with festival traders to ensure that perfectly edible food does not end up in landfill sites. The project – called EighthPlate – intends to salvage 60 tonnes of unsold food, to provide 143,000 meals for the most vulnerable, distributing the produce amongst food banks and…
UK: For the 5th time, Anglo-Australian company Natural Event will play a key backstage role at Glastonbury this year, with a record-breaking 1,111 of its uniquely art-worked composting toilets being installed. Designed with dignity in mind, the loos will make up around a fifth of all toilets on site, situated at 101 locations to cater for the five-day event’s 210,000 participants. Natural Event’s loos do not require water or chemicals, and unlike chemical loos they are low-odour and don’t require regular mechanical emptying by trucks – a process that is noisy, polluting, dangerous and disruptive. Furthermore, Natural Event’s loos store…
FINLAND: Finland’s Flow Festival will collaborate with The University of the Arts Helsinki to create a series of art installations around the festival site. The disused power station the festival calls home will be decorated with multi-disciplinary works of art – from both sound and physical sculptures, to video installations, experimental performances, and dance and theatre workshops. The University of the Arts Helsinki is the main partner of Flow’s art programming, curated overall by Jarkko Räsänen. Flow Festival’s confirmed partners for 2015 are the main partner Lapin Kulta, media partners Basso, Clear Channel, Helsingin Sanomat / Nyt, and partners American…
USA: For the second year in a row, Firehouse Productions provided sound reinforcement for the iHeartRadio Country Festival, held at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. And just like last year, Firehouse used its HARMAN’s JBL VTX line array system for the event. This year’s system, however, featured Firehouse’s V25 loudspeakers, now upgraded to the new V25-II spec using JBL’s VTX-V25-WG-UK upgrade kit. With the upgrade, Firehouse was able to take advantage of this new and improved standard for one of the largest country music festivals of the year. The iHeartRadio Country Festival brought together the biggest names in…
UK: Hard Rock Cafe has announced its first-ever music festival in Scotland. Hard Rock Rocks Edinburgh will be a three-day music festival in the Scottish capital, taking place at the iconic St. Andrew Square Garden from July 31 – August 2. Acts confirmed to perform across the weekend include The Voice winner Stevie McChrorie, Edinburgh’s own singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt, rockers Big Country, Brit-nominated rock band The Feeling, three piece Fatherson who stormed The British Embassy show at SXSW, as well as a collaboration performance from Starsailor’s James Walsh and Ben Montague. The announced acts will perform to an intimate crowd…