UK: With only a week to go until The Isle Of Wight Festival opens its gates to the public, festival bosses have announced that this year’s festival will be a celebration of the 45th anniversary since Jimi Hendrix made his last ever UK performance at the festival in 1970. To commence the celebrations, the festival confirm that they will christen the main stage ‘The Electric Church’ in honour of his now legendary performance on the island 45 years ago. Hendrix referred to his music as ‘Electric Church’, believing music was his religion; a principle also shared by the festival. The…
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BELGIUM / USA: Following its successful live broadcast of Tomorrowland Brasil, Live Media Group – the self-professed industry leader in turnkey live event production, broadcast and streaming technology – will power the live web broadcast of Belgium’s Tomorrowland (July 24 – 26) and Atlanta’s TomorrowWorld (September 25 – 27) music festivals. Using the nowlive video platform and app, viewers around the world can experience performances of several artists on the web and their mobile devices. The nowlive video platform is allegedly the only live stream player technology that puts the audience in complete control, allowing a customised viewer experience never…
UK: Common People, the newly-launched festival from the UK Festival Award-winning Bestival and Camp Bestival organisers, proved to be a major success with 25,000 music lovers flocking to Southampton Common on each of its two days. It presented Showsec with the opportunity to extend their long-standing association with Bestival and LoudSound Productions. With headliners Fatboy Slim, Grace Jones, De La Soul and Clean Bandit, Common People aimed to provide eclectic entertainment for those of all ages and backgrounds. “This was, without doubt, a fantastic starting point for Common People,” said Dave Grindle, the Festival Director from LoudSound Productions. “When you…
UK: Following market-leading success in Europe and the USA last year, PlugGO are bringing their revolutionary branded portable charging service to the UK festival market this summer, having already signed-up some of Britain’s most prominent major and independent festivals. The Amsterdam-based company has appointed event technology specialist and Festival Awards founder Steve Jenner to set-up and lead its UK operations and to help drive festival client acquisition across Europe. This summer sees PlugGO confirmed to provide the Official Phone Charging at many top festivals including Download, Creamfields, Secret Garden Party and Festival Number 6 in the UK; Tomorrowland, Rock Werchter…
CHINA: IMS, touted as the world’s most influential and forward-thinking business platform for electronic music, will set foot for the first time in China on Oct 2. IMS China is one of four IMS summits to be held this year, in influential cities for electronic music: Ibiza, Los Angeles, Singapore and now Shanghai. Combining a business element to China’s best festival with international promotion and focus on China, IMS China will be held to coincide with Budweiser Storm Festival, China’s largest outdoor EDM festival. IMS’ co-founder Ben Turner said: “This is a great opportunity to explore a huge emerging market…
UK: BoomTown Fair – set to take place from August 13 – 17 in Winchester – has unveiled the themes for each of this year’s nine districts, via the newly launched YouTube channel ‘BoomTown News’. The seventh edition of the festival will comprise areas dubbed The Wild West, Barrio Loco, DSTRKT 5, ChinaTown, Mayfair Avenue, TrenchTown, OldTown, KidzTown and Whistler’s Green. For more information, visit BoomTown’s official website. Check out the below playlist, which introduces each of the aesthetically distinct areas. Header photo credit: Charlie Raven
LATVIA: Tallinn Music Week – the biggest indoor music festival in the Nordic-Baltic region – will present seven Estonian artists at Positivus festival, taking place in Salacgriva, Latvia from July 17 – 19. Altogether, 13 Estonian acts have been announced to play at Positivus this year. The acts performing under the Tallinn Music Week umbrella will be electronic / jazz group Miamee, the folky Curly Strings, Russian language hip-hop crew Gorg Lana, eclectic songstress cirkl, indie rockers Daggers, art-pop trio Badass Yuki, and Lexsoul Dancemachine. In addition to the above, the I Love You stage will host Estonian acts Galvanic…
NETHERLANDS: Incubate festival has announced a wave of additions to its line-up, including Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Julianna Barwick, Kevin Morby, Hookworms, and a special collaboration between King Midas Sound and Fennesz. Also newly confirmed for the festival – which will take place from September 14 – 20 in Tilburg – are Hundred Waters, Dengue Fever, Husky, JEFF The Brotherhood, EF, Camera, William Basinski and more. Already announced acts for Incubate include The Melvins, who will be performing two separate shows, plus Sun Araw, Cabaret Voltaire, Merzbow, Julianna Barwick, and more. The festival also boasts an extensive film programme. For more…
GIBRALTAR: With Nashville rock heroes Kings Of Leon and pop icons Duran Duran already announced to headline Victoria Stadium this September, more names have been confirmed for Gibraltar Music Festival 2015. The latest additions include Paloma Faith, Madness, Kaiser Chiefs, Hudson Taylor, Dub Colossus, Kristian Vinales (DJ set), Jeremy Perez & Tom Stott, Headwires and Guy Valarino. Gibraltar Music Festival will take place from September 5 – 6. In addition to the aforementioned headline acts, the line-up already includes Estopa, Tom Odell, The Feeling, Reach, Paddy Taylor, Strange Brew and more. For more information, check out GMF’s official website.
UK: Glastonbury has revealed the remainder of its characteristically colossal line-up. The new additions include The Gaslamp Killer Experience, James Bay, Hiatus Kaiyote, SBTRKT, Jack Garratt, Dorian Concept, Chet Faker, Everything Everything, The Cribs, Frank Turner, and George Ezra, amongst others. Organiser Emily Eavis has also revealed that she received death threats following the festival’s confirmation of Kanye West as one of this year’s Pyramid Stage headliners, concomitant with the immediately launched petition that called for West’s deposition. Glastonbury will take place from June 24 – 28 on Worthy Farm, Somerset. Check out the full line-up and stage times, via…