UK: Love Saves The Day has announced its line-up for 2017, featuring names such as Little Dragon, Mura Masa, Fatima Yamaha, Jamie Jones, Bicep, Andrew Weatherall and more. Other acts confirmed include Job Jobse, Call Super, Hunee, Move D, DJ Nature, Kiwi, Palms Trax, Zed Bias & Trigga, DJ Die, Dismantle, Elder Island, Feel The Real, PBR Streetgang, Dave Harvey, Christophe, Deli G, Khanage, Addison Groove, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Kate Tempest, AJ Tracey, Shy FX, Nadia Rose, Kano, Levelz, Holy Goof, My Nu Leng, Novelist, Stefflon Don, BadBadNotGood, Jessy Lanza, Rusko, and more. For the second year running, Love Saves…
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Jimmy Woodard is a Business Development Manager at 360 Designs, a leading virtual reality company with expertise in live production and advanced custom cameras. Festival producers – 2017 could be your year to unlock the potential of virtual reality. 2016 was the coming out party for the emerging technology, with Facebook, Samsung, HTC, PlayStation, and Google rolling out headsets for the masses. Not to mention Facebook just introduced live 360 video capabilities on its platform. So what steps should you take to bring virtual reality to your next festival and beyond? Step 1: Make VR a Priority First and foremost,…
UK: Blackout has appointed the event industry’s first Trailblazer Live Event Rigging apprentices, with a double appointment. The drapes and rigging specialist has welcomed Roisin McClearn and Bridie Lane to its team. The Trailblazer Live Event Rigging Apprenticeship, part of the governments’ Trailblazer scheme encouraging three million new apprentices by 2020, was launched by the National Rigging Advisory Group (NRAG) in September to provide formal training to new recruits, supporting them beyond the National Rigging Certificate Level 2, and to plug the gap in trainee numbers to fill increasing demand throughout the rigging industry. Blackout selected McClearn and Lane from…
UK: On January 26 at the Hurlingham Club, London, Full Fat PR was crowned winner of ‘Best PR Campaign’ at the Festival Supplier Awards 2017. The agency was bestowed the honour for its campaign delivered for the 2016 edition of Liverpool International Music Festival. Judges chose Full Fat for the highly successful campaign promoting Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF), the largest free music event in Europe. Taking place from July 21 – 23 in Sefton Park and at various venues in the city, LIMF saw performances from acts including Sigma, The Wombats, Lianne La Havas and may more. Full Fat…
UK: The conference agenda for the 29th International Live Music Conference (ILMC) has been announced. This year sees several firsts for ILMC, with the long-running conference tailoring its agenda to reflect innovations in the fast-changing global live music business. New elements include the Festival Summit 2017 and Venue Summit 2017, produced in partnership with key industry associations and operators. An annual update on the global artist booking sector, The Agency Business 2017 launches, as does The Think Tank series featuring a trio of renowned industry figures. All will take place alongside a packed three-day schedule of panels and workshops. “From…
UK: East Sussex’s Herstmonceux Castle will play host to over 15,000 visitors this August Bank Holiday weekend for the 25th anniversary of England’s Medieval Festival. The festival features demonstrations, a moonlit cinema, realistic battle re-enactments, a ‘Mud Show’, jousting, grand parades, and highly-skilled displays of falconry, music, and dance. There’s plenty of opportunity for attendees to participate, in jousting, archery and axe throwing; sword school; drum school; plus workshops for all ages including chainmail, calligraphy, wood weaving, blacksmith forging and many other traditional arts and crafts. Wizards, jesters, knights, dragons and princesses will be around the site to entertain the…
Lowlands Festival – or A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise if you’re not into the whole brevity thing – is one of The Netherlands’ most successful events, attracting around 55,000 visitors to its annual three-day festivities. Appealing to both Renaissance men and women, Lowlands encompasses music, cinema, street theatre, cabaret, stand-up, ballet, and literature. At this year’s Eurosonic Nooderslag, Insights spoke with Eric Eerdenburg – the Director of Lowlands and Down The Rabbit Hole – about the former festival’s programming approach, its embrace of the scientific and political, and the challenges he personally foresees for the live events industry. Festival Insights:…
UK: Having already announced a move to the larger Clarence Dock for 2017, Sound City has now revealed that it will host four days of festivities to mark its 10th birthday. The festival launches on Thursday May 25 with a celebration of the English avant-garde featuring a trio of some of the most influential British electronic artists of the modern era – The Human League, Art of Noise and A Certain Ratio. With a remarkable career that spans five decades, The Human League were the vanguard of the electronic new wave in the 70’s developing a sound that changed the…
UK: Field Day has revealed an impressive list of additional acts for its 2017 edition, set to take place in East London’s Victoria Park on June 3. Included in the announcement are hip-hop super duo Run the Jewels, Clams Casino, Machinedrum, Thee Oh Sees, Abra and more. Also confirmed are Âme (live), Arab Strap, Beak, Dekmantel Soundsystem, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids, Kite Base, Lady Leshurr, Manuela, Marc Riley, PC Music, Pictish Trail, Rae Morris, Sinkane, and Forth Wanderers. This wicked sick array of new names will join previously announced headliner Aphex Twin, who will close Field Day’s new indoor…
SPAIN: Sónar Barcelona has continued to prove its preternatural curatorial sensibilities with a raft of fantastic new additions to its 2017 program, including Arca & Jesse Kanda, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, DJ Shadow, Little Dragon, Evian Christ, Clark, Jon Hopkins (DJ), and more. Also gracing Sónar’s stages this year will be the European premiere of Carl Craig’s Versus Synthesizer Orchestra, Lunice, RP Boo, Nico Muhly, AJ Tracey, Benji B, and Vitalic, plus DJ sets from Daphni & Hunee and Prins Thomas. Seth Troxler & Tiga will undertake a six-hour set on Saturday within the new circular sound and…