Marcin Lukasik is Business Development Manager for the retail and events sectors within Tensator Group, with over seven years of experience in the queue management industry. Tensator is recognised as a global leader in queue management solutions, with over 100 years’ experience in the retail, transportation, finance, health & safety, events & hospitality, and public sectors, to name a few. As thousands of visitors descend upon the UK’s variety of music festivals happening across the summer, managing and exceeding expectations will be at the top of festival organisers’ agenda. First impressions are key, and while guests will be thinking primarily…
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UK: Energy Revolution has launched the first industry specific initiative to provide event suppliers with a system to balance the negative impact of their travel to and from events. The Travel Carbon Calculator allows companies to calculate their carbon emissions, and donate to Energy Revolution in order to ‘balance’ their emissions. 100% of donations are invested in renewable energy projects – turning the carbon emissions from travel into a world-changing positive investment. The pilot programme has been produced with support from some of the UK’s most progressive event industry companies, including Chai Wallahs, BES Systems, Rock City Crew, Charge &…
UK: One of the UK’s leading ticketing platforms for independent live music, clubs, tours and festivals is relaunching on August 15 with a new brand and an improved customer focused service offer. alt. tickets, a full member of STAR (the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers), was set up in 2000 to primarily sell tickets for DHP Family operating from the box office of its flagship venue Rock City. Having reached the milestone of selling more than one million tickets by the end of 2015, alt. tickets became an exclusively digital platform, capitalising on innovative industry trends and its impressive…
BoomTown will host the eighth edition of its wildly idiosyncratic festival this weekend in Hampshire, with an increased capacity of 60,000 and featuring nine fully themed and diverse districts, over 80 street venues, all manner of immersive arts programming, and more renowned acts than you can count on seven hands. Insights spoke with Lak Mitchell – Creative Director & Co-Founder of BoomTown – about how they’re raising the bar on production again this year, the festival’s approach to welfare, and more. Festival Insights: BoomTown is widely regarded as a trailblazer when it comes to the immersive and thematic side of…
UK: National ticketing agent The Ticket Factory has announced a new partnership with rock and metal powerhouse TeamRock. The exclusive partnership deal will give The Ticket Factory unrivalled access to rock, metal and prog fans along with huge selling clout for tickets to rock and metal concerts and live events. The cornerstone of the partnership will be a new website called TeamRock Tickets, which will be powered by The Ticket Factory under the TeamRock brand as part of the media owner’s online portfolio. TeamRock has a worldwide global footprint of over six million rock and metal fans, so thanks to…
UK: Independent research published in late July confirms the huge contribution that Edinburgh’s festivals make to the quality of life, international reputation and economic vitality of Edinburgh and Scotland at large. The latest in the organisation’s series of studies, which surveyed 29,000 people, shows that Edinburgh’s festivals continue to be Scotland’s world-leading cultural brands, delivering significant attendance numbers through their cultural programmes. Key findings from the study show that Edinburgh’s festivals: Attract audiences of more than 4.5 million, putting them on a par with the FIFA World Cup Act as economic powerhouses, generating £280m in Edinburgh and £313m across Scotland,…
UK: The International Festival Forum (IFF) has announced that the German impresario Marek Lieberberg and his son Andre will be the joint subjects at this year’s IFF Keynote. The Lieberberg dynasty has been at the forefront of the German concert business since the 1960s, and with eight months under their belts running the new Live Nation GSA office, shows no signs of slowing down. Marek founded Rock am Ring (alongside twin site Rock im Park) over 30 years ago, and accolades have included the top festival gong at ILMC’s 2016 Arthur Awards. In their first joint keynote, the father and…
USA: Palmetto Soundworks recently deployed JBL VTX Series line arrays to provide live sound at the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival. Located on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, the three-day festival was inundated with some extremely adverse weather conditions, including high winds and driving rain. The premium sound quality and industry-proven reliability of the VTX system enabled the team from Palmetto Sound to overcome the elements and deliver crisp and clean audio that complemented some truly incredible performances. “We were in really poor weather conditions the whole weekend — we gave floating subs a whole new meaning,” said Jared…
HUNGARY: Sziget Festival and Viber – one of the leading global messaging apps with more than 754 million unique users worldwide and over 2.7 million in Hungary alone – are collaborating on a unique initiative at this year’s event. The Sziget community will be invited to subscribe to a unique, exclusive and entirely free service: Personal Viber Festival Messages, sent in real time to their Viber phones during the festival. The service will provide the audience with live updates on the festival line-up, programme changes, weather conditions, and all manner of things happening on the island. “This initiative marks the…
UK / IRELAND: d&B has announced that it will host two more of its renowned electroacoustics seminars in London and Dublin this September. The events will take place on Wednesday 7 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and on Wednesday 14 at The Leeson Lounge in Dublin. With only wait list spaces currently available on the d&b seminar and workshop program in Gloucestershire, these extra sessions are a chance to secure a place at this valued industry event. For 16 years the seminar has focused on ‘achieving intelligibility’ by better understanding the principles of electroacoustics…