UK: The Leeds based ticketing company Event Genius has announced the launch of a new reserved seating platform. The new feature integrates seamlessly into the company’s existing platform of solutions and will be used by Ibiza Rocks Hotel to sell a variety of seats inside their VIP areas at the hotel’s events across the summer. “We’ve spent a lot of time making our platform as easy as possible for customers to buy tickets from any device,” said Event Genius Managing Director Reshad Hossenally. “Whether your customer is on a mobile, tablet or at their computer, they’ll be to view the…
Author: Festival Insights
Quinton Campbell won AVA Festival’s Emerging Producer competition back in 2016, which awarded him a slot on a compilation with Extended Play Recordings, plus artist development and mentoring, a feature on the Feel My Bicep blog, and technical support from Native Instruments. Since then Campbell has gone on to release two EPs, perform at Amsterdam Dance Event with AVA X Percolate, and cultivate a hectic live schedule. Next month he will make his Boiler Room debut at AVA Festival. Insights spoke with Campbell about which element of the competition winnings he found most helpful, and how other festivals might better…
Alex Jukes is the founder and director of Jukebox, a press company that has grown from humble beginnings in Leeds to become a globally respected business. Working in the music, tech, leisure and nightlife sectors, the company works with over 50 international festivals, including Kappa Futur Festival, Epizode Festival and Movement Festival. Alex also helped to set up SXM Festival in the Caribbean, which has received rave reviews from the likes of Mixmag, RA, XLR8R and more. Gone are the days when you could erect a big top in a muddy English field, book a few big names and sell…
Founded by Jon Drape of Broadwick Live, Festival Safe is a website that acts as a centralised hub for all manner of generally applicable festival safety information. It’s one of those concepts that seems incredibly obvious now that is has already come to fruition, but it wasn’t until last week that something of its kind existed. Featuring concise advice on everything from fire safety to appropriate footwear, the site aims to reduce harm and properly prepare festivalgoers to have the ‘best possible time’. Despite Global’s involvement as the initiative’s development partner, it is intended as a cross-industry resource and has…
UK: Broadwick Live has joined the Association of Independent Festival’s Drastic on Plastic campaign. The promoter joins more than 60 independent festivals in a pledge to ban the use of plastic straws onsite this season as a minimum first step, and to eliminate all single-use plastic at their events by 2021. Furthermore, as part of Broadwick Live’s commitment to green policies, all festivals and venues within its portfolio will be introducing a number of initiatives from this summer, including but not limited to: Encouragement for customers to bring/buy refillable water bottles Festivals will put on extra stand-pipes with access to…
ICELAND: Secret Solstice has revealed the details of its million dollar ticket, the most expensive festival pass in the world. With just one ticket of its kind on sale, the pass affords its inconceivably rich owner a roundtrip pick-up via private chartered business jet for six people, as well as luxury accommodation for the entire festival week including an exclusive private party with a Secret Solstice headline artist. Other benefits include daily pampering with luxury spa access and a personalized ‘glam squad’, private dining with prominent Icelandic chefs in unique Icelandic locations, a chartered helicopter tour over the stunning landscape…
UK: Liverpool International Music Festival will return in 2018 with its award-winning talent development programme, the LIMF Academy. Dedicated to discovering and developing young, unsigned Merseyside music talent, the LIMF Academy is the only scheme of its kind in the UK for emerging talent between the ages of 16 – 25. Academy alumni have gone on to land record label and publishing deals, national and international radio play and toured with worldwide stars. Six successful applicants will get access to performance opportunities including LIMF 2018, professional career advice, training, workshops and a bursary. A 12-month talent development opportunity will be…
USA: The 17-day Savannah Music Festival – touted as the largest music-oriented arts event in Georgia – draws audiences from all 50 states and many European countries. The 2018 edition wrapped up in mid-April, and for the fourth consecutive year all amplified music venues — featuring a varied mix of jazz, American roots, and international styles — were equipped with systems from Meyer Sound. “Once we started working with Meyer Sound, everybody got completely spoiled by the quality of what they heard,” said Rob Gibson, the festival’s executive and artistic director. “And, because of all the different styles of music…
UK: With less than six weeks to go, Manchester’s Parklife Festival has unveiled a brand new stage, named the ‘Valley’. Inspired by the dystopian cityscapes of Blade Runner, the Valley brings a ‘full city’ to Parklife with immersive production and distinct visuals. A$AP Rocky, Carl Cox, Annie Mac, Giggs, Stefflon Don, Bicep and more are set to perform on it from June 9 – 10. Others acts at the festival include Liam Gallagher, Skepta, Lorde, N*E*R*D, and Justice. The festival revealed the stage via a preview video here. Parklife
UK: Environmental sustainability experts, Hope Solutions, have published a factsheet on reusable cups for the events and entertainment industry. The ‘It Doesn’t Stack Up’ factsheet was co-produced by Hope Solutions and energy & sustainability consultants, Zap Concepts, highlighting the huge impact caused by the UK festival and live event industry relating to single use cups made from plastics and other materials. The factsheet is the first study of its kind to accurately compare the environmental impact of the manufacture, transport, washing and disposal of reusable and disposable cups. It proves that disposable cups have a greater environmental impact and actually…