UK: Wychwood Festival – set to take place from May 29 – 31 at Cheltenham Racecourse – has added Keith Farnan, 8 Out Of 10 Cats’ Michael Legge and the comedic musical stylings of Mitch Benn to its Wychwood Comedy stage. Further additions have been made to the Wychwood Children’s Literature Stage – with Philip Ardagh, Christopher Edge and Anna Wilson all reading excerpts from their best sellers. The festival’s ongoing dedication towards all things green will also be showcased throughout the weekend at the Ecotricity stage. The BBC One Show’s Lucy Seagle, Riverford founder Guy Watson and Ecotricity founder…
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UK: Reading & Leeds festival has added an assortment of acts to its 2015 line-up, including The Bronx, Young Thug, Spring King, Maribou State, The Struts, Twin Peaks, Shura, DJ Fresh, Seether, Bo Ningen, Baroness and more. The new additions will join a roster already including Metallica, Mumford & Sons, The Libertines, Kendrick Lamar, alt-J, Bring Me The Horizon, Run The Jewels, and Limp Bizkit, amongst others. For the full line-up and more information check out Reading and / or Leeds’ official websites. Header photo credit: Dan Dennison
UK: The Garden Party – a two-day festival set to debut in Leeds’ Tetley Brewery from August 29 – 30 – has revealed a line-up that includes Little Dragon, Todd Terje, Mos Def, Roisin Murphy, Romare, John Talabot, amongst others. The event, whose partners include The Warehouse Project, Now Wave and Eat Your Own Ears, also offers street eats courtesy of Leeds Indie Food and art installations curated by Mad Ferret Productions. Despite its eclectic cast of underground luminaries, early bird tickets are somehow priced at only £19.50 for the day, and first release tickets for the weekend at £34.90.…
SLOVENIA: The Flow Festival brand will take its next step towards global conquest this summer, with the inaugural Flow Festival Ljubljana set to take place in the Slovenian capital from June 26 – 28. Taking over the picturesque city of Ljubljana, the 2015 line-up features a mix of iconic and upcoming talent. Arguably the founding fathers of British synth pop, Pet Shop Boys will headline Saturday night, while after rising up the ranks in recent years, Metronomy will top the bill on Friday, with Roisin Murphy bringing things to a close on Sunday. Also on the line-up, cutting edge hip-hop…
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In previous instances of Festival Insights we’ve caught up with some of the things UK ticketing website Skiddle can offer to the festival industry at large. These have involved utilising their Festival Guide, the largest and most expansive in the UK, to sell tickets, helping you expand your business into the European market and using their Rapidscan ticketing solutions. This time however Skiddle are looking to the industry itself to enable them to collate insight into the demands of running a festival via its F100 initiative. This is designed to gather the voices of a hundred industry figures to understand…
USA: Mysteryland USA and T-Mobile USA are to present the first ever live stream in Mysteryland’s 22-year history. Hosted on Beatport Live, the newly unveiled live streaming platform from Beatport, the upcoming ‘Mysteryland Live Stream, Unleashed By T-Mobile’ will give fans from around the world the chance to dive down the rabbit hole and experience Mysteryland on their smartphones. Fans will be able to tune in to Beatport Live on May 23 and May 24 at 6:00 PM (EDT) to catch sets from Mysteryland artists A-Trak, Dillon Francis, Diplo, Gramatik, Josh Wink, Matthew Dear, Netsky (live), and many more. Viewers…
NETHERLANDS: Lowlands festival has announced that Hot Chip, Kendrick Lamar, AWOLNATION, Ben Khan, Christine and the Queens, Dolomite Minor, Formation, The Indien, Kasba, Gallowstreet, Low Roar, The Mysterons, Ot Vinta, PAUW, Tourist, WAND, Whilk & Misky, Rico & Sticks and Rondé have been added to the line-up of the event, scheduled to take place from August 21 – 23 in Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands. These new names will be joining The Chemical Brothers, Interpol, Tame Impala, Underworld, FFS, Passenger, Bastille, José González, Caribou, Rudimental, Django Django, SBTRKT, Ben Howard, Major Lazer, Paolo Nutini, Limp Bizkit, The Maccabees, La Roux, Allah-Las, Imelda…
MONTENEGRO: Sea Dance Festival, presented by EXIT, TheSoundYouNeed and UKF, and set to take place from July 15 – 18 on Montenegro’s Jaz Beach, has revealed more additions to its line-up. After scooping ‘Best Medium-Sized Festival’ at the European Festival Awards, 2015’s proceeding will be headlined by iconic dance supergroup The Prodigy in a Balkans-exclusive as well as electronica diva and former Moloko singer Roisin Murphy, plus a DJ set from Rudimental. Joining them will be British duo Sigma, genre-hopping Noisia and ‘Afterglow’ producer Wilkinson. Festivalgoers can also expect sets from a number of underground artists including esteemed Slovenian producer…
UK: Latitude, one of the UK’s leading multi-arts festivals, has announced the line-up for this year’s Literary Arena, offering a whole host of literary heavyweights, top wordsmiths and up-and-coming talent. Set to take place from July 16 – 19, Latitude will welcome esteemed playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker and novelist Hanif Kureshi to the festival. Author of novels including The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album and Intimacy, audiences will be given the rare opportunity to learning from the master as Kureshi will give a talk on creative writing. King of crime fiction Mark Billingham will be appearing in collaboration with…