UK: An Avolites Arena console has been selected to control the custom designed, automated house rig on debut electronic dance music series ‘Issue 001’ at London’s new, experimental cultural hub ‘Printworks’. The 001 series sees some of the industry’s most progressive electronic dance music promoters including Junction 2, Melt Festival and Knee Deep host top and emerging dance music talent. The Arena was selected and installed alongside the rest of the event’s lighting package by Poole based lighting and rigging expert Wolf Lighting. The console is networked in the venue’s ‘crown jewel’ event space – a 16.8m high, 120m x…
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UK: Farr Festival has revealed a second wave of acts for its 2017 edition, including Nao, Submotion Orchestra, SG Lewis, Tama Sumo, Ivan Smagghe, Moscoman, and more. A new addition to this year’s Farr Festival is the ambient stage, curated and hosted by London based electronic music magazine Inverted Audio. The Boards of Canada inspired ‘Campfire Headphase’ stage will see a range of ambient musicians come through to deliver some deeply immersive late night moments. Huerco S. and Giegling mainstay Leafar Legov will perform live sets, alongside Russian experimentalist Machine Woman, Glasgow’s Sad City, and Basses Terres. Set to take…
UK: Download has announced that the pro wrestling show WWE NXT LIVE will return to Donington Park for this year’s festival, set to take place from June 9 – 11. Alongside headliners System Of A Down, Biffy Clyro and Aerosmith, fans can catch NXT Superstars *Bobby Roode, Aleister Black, Tye Dillinger, Kassius Ohno, Eric Young, Alexander Wolfe, Killian Dain, Nikki Cross and more as they chuck each other about in the purpose built, full scale ring within the festival’s main arena. Download Festival Promoter, Dave Bradley, said: “Having WWE NXT at Download is like seeing what happens when an unstoppable…
Tom Wilkes is the Business Development Manager at White Light, where he works closely with lighting designers, manufacturers and end users. His position has enabled White Light to form a partnership with the AIF (Association of Independent Festivals), allowing the company to support new and upcoming festivals internationally as well as the continued work with long established artists. With a passion for festivals, Tom is always paying close attention to the current trends in production technology. Despite LED technology growing exponentially over the past few years, it has yet to be fully embraced by the festival world. In my personal…
After six years spent studying and working in Manchester for the likes of Manchester International Festival and The Warehouse Project, Sarah McBriar moved down to London in 2013 to undertake an MA in Creative Producing. During her postgrad studies the team behind Glastonbury’s Block 9 enlisted her to work for six months on everything from the area’s curation to team building and post-event work. With this newfound experience in the world of large-scale festivals, McBriar applied for a grant to start her own festival & conference in Belfast, entitled AVA. Over the past three years AVA has evolved from a…
UK: As venues and individuals are getting involved with Disabled Access Day across the UK, The Ticket Factory is celebrating one year of partnership with Nimbus Disability. The Ticket Factory launched the partnership with Nimbus Disability – creators of the Access Card – this time last year. As part of The Ticket Factory’s quest to provide all of its customers with the same experience, it integrated with user-led initiative the Access Card and joined forces with NEC Group venues Genting Arena and Barclaycard Arena to offer disabled customers the same ease of online booking as everyone else. Initially designed as…
UK: City Sound Project has confirmed that it will take place from April 29 – 30 across multiple venues and sites throughout Canterbury, Kent. Headline acts announced so far include David Rodigan, White Lies, AJ Tracey, The Rifles, Hidden Charms and Spring King. Elsewhere on the line-up are the House Gospel Choir, James Hype, Detlef, Saytek, and an exclusive showcase from London / Ibiza club brand Solid Grooves (including PAWSA, Michael Bibi and Reelow). Established in 2012, City Sound Project stages both electronic DJs and live bands, as well as spoken word, street art and more. Previous headliners have included…
UK: After many years of success in France and Canada, the RFID and ticketing company Weezevent will open the doors of its first UK office in Manchester. The UK operation will be headed up by Benjamin Garner, who previously worked at Ticketmaster UK. Pierre Henri-Deballon and Sebastien Tonglet, two former events organisers who wanted to overcome the challenges they faced on their events, founded Weezevent in 2008 with the ambition to create solutions for problems they faced by developing innovative event-specific technologies. An innovative and customisable system developed with help from over 100 events organisers and feedback from customers, Weezevent’s…
UK: Wiltshire based special effects company, Quantum SFX, has been awarded Best Visual Spectacular at both the Festival Supplier Awards and Event Production Awards 2017. It is the second year running that the Quantum team have taken home Best Visual Spectacular at the Festival Supplier Awards. Last year the company received the award for their towering pyrotechnic display provided for Metallica’s headline slot at Reading & Leeds Festival. This year the award ceremony recognised the team for their work at BST Hyde Park with Mumford & Sons and Take That, for which they supplied two bespoke programmes of special effects.…
UK: VAULT Festival took its final bow of 2017 on March 5 to rapturous applause as final ticket sales totalled 47,000 across nearly 250 shows over six weeks. The Festival also revealed that its audience donated over £7,600 for Crew 4 Calais. With 47,000 tickets sold to almost 250 separate shows, clocking up 1,400+ performances from January 25 – March 5 2017 at The Vaults and, for the first time, at nearby venues Network Theatre and Morley College, the VAULT Festival team are celebrating the event’s best year yet. Average attendance in 2017 hit 59%, with many shows playing to…