UK: Having bid farewell to its longstanding event series back in 2015, the team behind Southport Weekender has announced its return with a one-day festival on June 10 at London’s Finsbury Park. Hailed by some as ‘the world’s friendliest party’ and one of the UK’s most musically diverse, Southport Weekender’s London debut is thirty years in the making – and offers a line-up produced with ‘love, care and an unrivalled wealth of event experience’. Set to perform at the festival are Kerri Chandler, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Danny Krivit, Tony Humphries, Delano Smith, Derrick Carter, Juan Atkins,…
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UK: The Great Dorset Steam Fair (GDSF) has commissioned enforcement specialist TSG to patrol and protect its primary areas this summer, working alongside existing security arrangements. Organisers moved Great Dorset Steam Fair back a week last year, to run across the August Bank Holiday, and it attracts more than 200,000 people over five days, with many families among them. To ensure their safety, Operations Director Julian Hubbuck has split the site into zones for 2017 and switched from a single security supplier to a number of companies, each playing to its particular strengths. TSG, which managed a successful deployment at…
UK: The team behind the internationally acclaimed Greener Festival Award have launched the Greener Event Award, as part of an expansion of services to the broader events industry, conferences, venues and sport. The first of its kind, the award involves independent site assessment, verification and certification of environmental actions at events and venues. Participants in the awards receive tailored recommendations to make improvements year on year. Since 2007, A Greener Festival have assessed over 400 festivals across five continents, which in 2017 includes Glastonbury Festival (UK), Roskilde Festival (DK), Bayou Boogaloo (USA), Primavera Sound (ES) and We Love Green (FR).…
USA: Forecastle Festival, a three-day celebration of music, art and activism, will be celebrating its 15th anniversary from July 14 – 16 in Louisville’s Waterfront Park, and will again partner with Arcadia Power to ensure the festival’s carbon footprint is neutral. Forecastle Festival will run on 100% pollution-free electricity through a partnership with national Clean Energy provider Arcadia Power. For every kWh of electricity used at the festival, a kWh is produced and put on the grid by a pollution-free, renewable source, like wind and solar. “Forecastle Festival was built on the premise of environmental responsibility and for years we’ve…
Caroline Maclennan is the director of the Hebridean Celtic Festival, one of the most renowned Celtic festivals in Europe. Maclennan remains its only full-time employee, with the event being run largely by volunteers. She is the first point of contact for the festival, with responsibility for artistic programming, fundraising and sponsorship, as well as marketing and administration. Living on an island has its challenges and rewards on a daily basis. So, organising a major international event in what many would consider a remote part of the world certainly means there are obstacles to overcome. But there are many benefits for…
UK: TEAL Patents, the UK based supplier of portable hand basins and sinks, has put out advice to festival vendors about the potential for the spread of illnesses stemming from their own and festival-goers’ hygiene related oversights. Festivals across the world are renowned for their poor washing and hygiene facilities. For days on end, people go without showering or even washing their hands properly. Although large festivals, such as Glastonbury, do offer advice on the importance of hand washing to prevent illness, this is often ignored. When found at festivals, stomach illnesses, such as gastroenteritis, spread to around 54% of…
We can partner your festival with a UK brand in a targeted nationwide campaign. With a crowded festival market, it is crucial that you promote to the right audience in the right marketing space so that your budget is spent efficiently and your festivals are full to capacity. At BrandKiss we have an enviable list of brands in the UK that we speak to on a regular basis that could potentially promote your festivals. These include: STORM, ASOS, JOY, National Railcard, Boux Avenue, White Stuff, Surfdome, Whittard of Chelsea, Prezzybox, feelunique.com, Hush, Dorothy Perkins, Bodeans BBQ and many more. Just…
PORTUGAL: The BPM Festival: Portugal has revealed the first acts on the line-up of the festival brand’s European debut, set to take place from September 14 – 17. In alphabetical order, the names include: Apollonia, Carl Craig, Chus & Ceballos, Dubfire, Heidi, Hot Since 82, Jamie Jones, Lee Burridge, Loco Dice, Nicole Moudaber, Pan-Pot, Richie Hawtin, and Seth Troxler. Minutes apart, the municipalities of Portimão and Lagoa will play host to showcases and parties from underground record labels and party brands at the festival. Situated at the southeastern edge of Portimão, NoSoloÁgua will treat festival-goers to poolside ocean views. Then…
UK: Now in its third year, Parklife’s Community Impact Taskforce will be operational again during its imminent 2017 edition. Designed to reduce the impact of the festival by working with local residents and community groups, information regarding the Community Impact Taskforce is available via the Parklife website, and a leaflet including relevant information has already been distributed to residents. The Community Impact Taskforce is reminding locals to the Heaton Park area that they will need to display permits in their vehicles during show days, otherwise they may receive a parking ticket. Details of these permits are available in the residents…
The first edition of The Vinyl Festival will occur from September 23 – 24 at London’s most talked about new venue, The Printworks. Launched by the relatively new hobbyist magazine, Long Live Vinyl, the festival will treat aficionados of the format to a couple days of DJ sets, Q&A sessions, a crate-digging fair, a vinyl evaluation area, all manner of food & drink, and more. Insights spoke with Sarah Lindsay, Long Live Vinyl’s head of events, about how the festival will make the most of its industrial surroundings, what the reception to the festival concept has been like so far,…