USA: The curved overhang of the Camp Disco’s pavilion tent served as a visual canvas for an explosion of lighting effects, lasers, video and media server content at this year’s festival. The swirling colours, cones of light and constantly moving content were owed to the choice of fixtures as much as they were to the chosen lighting control system: Avolites’ Sapphire Touch. Camp Bisco is an annual outdoor music festival created and curated by the jamtronica group Disco Biscuits since 1999. This year’s event, which ran from July 14 – 16 in Scranton, PA, celebrated all things electronic, including music…
Author: Festival Insights
UK: In a crowded festival season, trying to establish a new concept within a relatively untested site in central London can prove hazardous. But in initiating the new Sunfall Festival at Brockwell Park promoters NVS called on the tried and trusted triumvirate of sound engineering specialists RG Jones Sound Engineering, its premium Martin Audio MLA Multi-cellular Loudspeaker PA system and experienced production company, Whole Nine Yards. It is a team that for the past five years has serviced the two other events in the NVS Promotions portfolio — the back-to-back Dimensions Festival and Outlook Festival in Pula, Croatia. And once…
Stuart Cain is the Managing Director of The Ticket Factory, one of the UK’s leading national ticketing agents, selling around 2.5m tickets a year for a range of comedy events, concerts, sporting events, exhibitions, theatre performances, visitor attractions and much more across the UK. The New York State Assembly has criminalised the use of ticket ‘bots’, or automated ticket-buying software. It’s time for the UK to follow suit and declare a war on online touts. Last month, a report was published highlighting the problem of ticket touting. You’d think this report would have been welcome news to the industry but…
Returning to Leeds Festival for the third time this year, the Relentless Stage once again invited an eclectic cast of top talent from the electronic underground to perform on what has become the epicentre of the event’s late night entertainment. Collaborating with live events agency and festival promoter Vision Nine to bring the project to life, Relentless continued to refine and improve the experience for 2016 – further solidifying the brand as a legitimate purveyor of quality music and production-heavy, immersive live experiences. Situated on an avenue shaded under an auspicious tree canopy, the long illuminated approach to the stage…
UK: For its sixth year supplying BoomTown Fair, Utopium provided lighting and rigging equipment to 12 of the festival’s stages and venues from August 11 – 14. This summer’s BoomTown Fair saw the introduction of over 80 street venues and an increased capacity of 60,000, making it the biggest year to date. The fully immersive festival features nine individually themed districts, impressive main stages and an eclectic line-up of music and entertainment with the introduction of Sector 6, a brand new district and witnessed performances from Madness, Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley and Fat Freddy’s Drop. Utopium provided festival lighting and…
UK: Simple Things Festival has announced Simple Things EXT. – an extended programme of unique performances, talks and art installations supported by Arts Council England in the week preceding the main festival. From October 17 – 19, the festival will be partnering with At-Bristol Science Centre to present Planetarium Sessions, a series of three audio-visual performances in the intimate surroundings of the projection-mapped planetarium dome. On Monday 17, members of The British Paraorchestra – the first ever British orchestra comprised wholly of disabled musicians – will collaborate with At Bristol to remix Terry Riley’s minimalist classic ‘In C’ as a…
UK: Building on the success of last year’s event, Enteetainment was entrusted to oversee site management at Wickham Festival for the second year running from August 4 – 7. Wickham Festival is a forward thinking, four-day music event, which welcomes a sell out crowd of 7,000 music lovers to the eponymous village each year. Following a successful first year, Enteetainment returned to the festival to create its site plan and analyse the layout to implement a number of changes to make best use of the whole site and ensure smoother crowd-flow. One such change was the addition of a new…
UK: Star Events had to think outside of the box to construct the new Samsung Hypercube, which is currently touring festival sites and houses the UK’s first immersive virtual reality music video. Inside the 50-capacity Hypercube, festivalgoers wearing Gear VR headsets are transported through pyros and laser lighting to join Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro performing new song Flammable in a suspended Perspex box. Conceived by Samsung and developed by Iris Worldwide, the structure’s quality of finish, inside and out, had to provide an experience in step with Samsung’s premium position. Star Events was engaged to turn the vision into reality…
UK: Fan-to-fan ticket resale platform Twickets has partnered with Dorset’s End of The Road Festival to launch an innovative ticket reissue and waiting list service. The service provides buyers with a new, unique ticket while the seller’s original is cancelled; the first time a resale platform has done this in the entertainment space. The initiative guarantees entry to the new ticket holder and makes the exchange process logistically easier for both buyer and seller, as Twickets emails the new ticket over directly. In typical British fashion, Twickets has also introduced a queueing process as part of the service, which aims…
UK: Since the launch of ticketscript’s new look ticketshop earlier this year, ticket sales have been steadily increasing for its clients, who have additionally experienced a 125% increase in mobile conversion. Statistics show that customers purchasing tickets today are 4x more likely to use a mobile device compared to 2015. This dramatic jump in mobile activity solidifies ticketscript’s focus on a mobile-first design, allowing customers to purchase tickets easily from any device, anywhere, anytime. Data also shows a significant shift in the split of mobile users compared to desktop users year-on-year. Mobile users are now clearly the majority, moving from…