CROATIA: Avolites control consoles and Ai media servers powered beat-perfect visuals across Outlook and Dimensions, two of Croatia’s leading dance music festivals, seamlessly merging lighting and video to immerse and enthral the crowds of revellers. The sister festivals are held every year in Croatia’s medieval town of Pula in the ruins of the town’s 150-year-old Fort, ‘Punto Christo’. Providing the lighting and video aspects for both Outlook and Dimensions was UK lighting, rigging and production expert Fineline Lighting, which has been involved in the festivals since 2012. “This year we looked after The Void, Mungo’s Arena, The Stables, Noah’s Ballroom,…
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GERMANY: Open Beatz Festival is an annual electronic music event in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that features not only a dazzling array of DJs and musicians, but an even more impressive audiovisual experience. It is the only four-day music festival in South Germany and plays host to acts such as Nicky Romero, Lost Frequencies, Sigala and Nero. For the 2016 festival, Bambus Veranstaltungstechnik from Stuttgart was responsible for the sound, light and video technology. The stage and lighting technology was integrated with a 3D video mapping show that was projected onto a building which measured 50 metres wide and 18 metres high.…
UK: T in the Park – Scotland’s largest festival – has confirmed that it will take a hiatus for a yet undetermined amount of time owing to the implications of its site move last year. Associated with the move were a number of restrictions and conditions that allegedly prevented the event from providing a satisfactory experience for fans. A statement released by the organisers states that the event’s reluctant move from Kinross to Strathallan in 2015 “was a mammoth task for the event and one that was compounded by a series of onerous site restrictions placed upon us as preparations…
UK: Julie’s Bicycle has announced the launch of Creative Climate Leadership, a pan-European programme for artists, creative professionals and policymakers to explore the cultural dimensions of climate change, and take action with impact, creativity and resilience. Through a series of events, policy labs, flagship training courses and an alumni network, the programme will put culture at the heart of the international response to climate change. The first Creative Climate Leadership Training Course will take place March 27 – 31 2017 in Wales, UK. This five-day intensive course is for artists and creative professionals who want to take a lead on…
UK: Bristol City Council has awarded Richmond Event Management (REM) the contract to organise the annual Bristol Harbour Festival until 2021. Following a competitive tender process REM has been awarded the contract, valued in the region of £600,000, to organise Bristol Harbour Festival for the next four years. REM has a longstanding relationship with the event, first producing it in 2002. Since then the city centre three-day summer festival has evolved to become a multi-cultural celebration of music, dance and performing arts, centred around the cities rich maritime history and attracting an audience of 250,000. Mike Richmond, managing director of…
Jimmy Coultas has worked in the music industry as a journalist and DJ for a decade, helming Skiddle’s content department for three and a half years. The company has been specifically delivering technological solutions for events of any size since it started selling tickets in 2006, ensuring promoters are one step ahead of industry trends. Secondary ticketing has never been more under the microscope than it is at present. Government reviews have quite rightfully given it a degree of scrutiny; even realising that legislation already exists that makes the decidedly shady practice of using bots to buy the tickets at…
With the exploitative elements of the secondary ticketing market currently enduring a lot of heat from primary ticketing outlets, the public, artists, politicians, academics, and the media, Twickets is one organisation making strong headway as an ethical alternative to the ‘old fashioned fences’ facilitating extortion through their laissez-faire approach to business. Through a number of pioneering initiatives and close collaborations, it continues to do its part in undermining the much-maligned touts. Insights spoke with Richard Davies, the founder of Twickets, about its partnerships both inside and outside the festival industry, the safeguards it has in place against fraud, his opinions…
UK: Alison Tickell, founder and CEO of Julie’s Bicycle, has been honoured as Campaigner of the Year at the Music Week Women in Music Awards 2016. The Campaigner award was presented to Tickell at the star-studded third annual Women in Music event for her longstanding commitment to addressing climate change and environmental sustainability in the music and creative industries. Convened by UK Music, the Association of Independent Music (AIM) and Music Week, the Music Week Women in Music Awards celebrate and recognise the most important and influential women from all sectors of the music industry. Kickstarted by the UK music…
UK: This week saw The Culture, Media and Sport Committee meet for a one-off evidence session into ticket touts and the problem of using software to harvest tickets from primary sellers’ online sites and selling them on at inflated prices to the detriment of fans, artists and organisers of entertainment and sporting events via the secondary market. Stuart Cain, Managing Director at The Ticket Factory, one of the UK’s leading national ticketing agents, has said that action needs to be taken now to stop future generations of fans missing out. “This is a £1 billion industry that will only grow…
SERBIA: EXIT Foundation was in charge of the winning campaign for the city of Novi Sad, where EXIT Festival takes place, to be the European Capital of Culture in 2021. EXIT has been held in the in the historic Petrovaradin Fortress on the river Danube since 2000, promoting the city of Novi Sad to festivalgoers worldwide who have been enjoying the picturesque city and buzzing cafe and bar culture for many years. Novi Sad presented its candidacy for the European Capital of Culture title with the programme concept of ‘4 new bridges’: Freedom (creative industries and youth), Hope (devoted to…