UK: Truck Festival has announced that Basement Jaxx will headline its 17th edition, taking place from July 17 – 18 at Hill Farm, Oxford. Up-and-coming artists including Saint Raymond and Slaves are also set to play, alongside the iconic Peter Hook & The Light. Standard weekend tickets are priced at £79.50 and are available via the festival’s official website.
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UK: Culture Liverpool has appointed REM (Richmond Event Management), to provide site and production management for all of the city’s annual events in 2015. REM will provide full site and production management for events including Three Queens, Mersey River Festival, On the Waterfront Concerts, Transatlantic, Liverpool International Music Festival, Bonfire Night celebrations and Chinese New Year 2016. Culture Liverpool delivered a varied program of events in 2014 with three major events attracting 1.4 million attendees and generating £55m into the local economy. Having successfully delivered elements of different Culture Liverpool events over the previous eight years, REM’s award winning team…
MONTENEGRO: Rudimental, Sigma, and Wilkinson are the first performers to be announced for the Main Stage at Sea Dance festival 2015. Voted as the “Best Medium-sized European Festival” at the 2014 European Festival Awards, Sea Dance is set to take place from July 15 – 18 at Jaz beach. This announcement results from a new-founded partnership between the festival and AEI, an independent media and music company in London, and its global music brands UKF and TheSoundYouNeed. Check out Rudimental’s performance of Waiting All Night at Exit Festival below:
NETHERLANDS: The Netherlands’ Best Kept Secret Festival has announced 53 names for its 2015 line-up, including alt-J, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Libertines, Royal Blood, Death Cab For Cutie, Future Islands, The Vaccines, Reigning Sound, Ariel Pink, First Aid Kit, Jonny Greenwood & The London Contemporary Orchestra, SOHN, The Tallest Man On Earth, METZ, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Hookworms, Eagulls, OFF! and Chet Faker. The full line-up can be viewed here. The third edition of Best Kept Secret is set to take place from June 19 – 21 in Hilvarenbeek, the Netherlands. Tickets go on-sale from February 7,…
Steve Daly is a co-owner and Head of RFID at ID&C- a leading security wristband specialist. He has a background in telecommunications start-ups and spent five years at PA Consulting, a London-based management consultancy. At ID&C, Steve developed a new RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) suite of products that were first to market at Coachella Music Festival, Lollapalooza & Austin City Limits in 2011. Since then ID&C’s products have supported projects, brand activations and social media campaigns for over 200 events in 25 countries on five continents. Here he postulates that 2015 will be pivotal to the UK’s adoption of cashless…
FRANCE: Airstar, a world leader in lighting balloon technology for the event industry, recently unveiled ‘Incandescence’ at the Lyon Light Festival (December 5 – 8 2014), a temporary installation with giant inflatable LED lightbulbs of various shapes and sizes. The 140 metre long lighting display marked the starting point for thousands of visitors at the world’s renowned light festival, which gathers international artists and professionals from the lighting industry. Incandescence is the combination of an industrial and artistic creation between lighting balloon manufacturer Airstar and local artist Séverine Fontaine (Compagnie IKB), in collaboration with Philips and SEET Europole. This artwork…
UK: ArcTanGent festival – set to take place from August 20 – 22 in Bristol – has confirmed The Dillinger Escape Plan as main stage headliners, with 65daysofstatic topping the Thursday night bill. Other bands announced include Vennart, Talons, Her Name Is Calla, British Theatre, The Algorithm, Rolo Tomassi, Tangled Hair, Flood of Red, 100 Onces, Prosperina, Latitudes, Black Peaks, 11Paranoias, Body Hound, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster, Gum Takes Tooth, Cleft, AK/DK, Alpha Male Tea Party, Valerian Swing, We Never Learned To Live, Trojan Horse, Polymath, Sonance, OHHMS, Alright The Captain, Obe, Patchwork Natives, Downard, Pocket Apocalypse, Juffage, Vodun, Crows…
HUNGARY: Sziget Festival, recently crowned as the Best Major Festival in Europe by the European Festival Awards, has confirmed that Robbie Williams will headline the starting day of the one week long festival holiday in Budapest. The Island of Freedom will host the next stop of the ‘Let Me Entertain You Tour’ of Robbie on August 10 (officially called Sziget Day -1) that is included in the 7 Days Pass. Day -1 tickets are also available in a limited number. Robbie Williams will join already confirmed acts Florence and the Machine, Alt-J, Awolnation, Blasterjaxx and Jamie Woon, amongst others. Tickets…
UK: Frontman Ian McCullough and his band will join Peter Hook and The Light who will perform the best of Joy Division and New Order at the four-day festival in North Yorkshire, that will take place from June 18 – 21. Echo and the Bunnymen are busier than ever after releasing their new album Meteorites last year and completing tours of North America, South America and the the UK. As well as tracks from their celebrated new album, music fans at Willowman Festival can expect to hear a set packed full of classic tracks from early albums Crocodiles, Heaven Up…
UK: Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 and Rodney P, the ‘Godfather of UK hip-hop’, have both been confirmed as speakers at the seventh annual edition of the Green Events and Innovations conference, which takes place at the International Live Music Conference in London on Thursday March 5. This year the conference has three key themes: Communication, Social Impact and Changing to More Sustainable Behaviour. The UK pair will be joined by Ruth Daniels from Change The Record, a project of In Place of War, who will be explaining how the scheme helps promote culture and music in some of the…