Towersey: 60 Years of the Family Family Festival
60 years under the stewardship of the same family, Towersey is unique before you start to think about the site, the audience or the line-up. Originally organised by Denis Manners and his friends, handed...
Winner Profile: Teddy Rocks
Teddy Rocks, winners of the 2023 Sarah Nulty Community Impact Award is a festival dedicated to founder, Tom Newton’s young brother Ted, who died from cancer aged 10. From a fundraising gig in a...
Winner Profile: Midnight Mango
Nurturing the live careers of acts is a role that is crucial to delivering a constant stream of quality line-ups for our festival market. We figured that two-time winners of the Festivals’ Favourite Agency...
Tramlines – Nurturing Emerging Talent With Community in Mind
Following their win as Best Festival for Emerging Talent at the 2023 UK Festival Awards, we caught up with Marketing Manager, Charlie Barton to get the low down on how the festival, firmly rooted...
GEI Celebrates Sell-out Sustainability Success
The Green Events & Innovations Conference (GEI), the foremost conference for sustainable events, welcomed 400 delegates to the Royal Lancaster London for the event’s 16th edition on 27th February.
AGF CEO Claire O'Neill and Director...
Mayors of the North Get Behind VAT Cut Call at Summit
The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) successfully hosted its third Night Time Economy Summit at the iconic Freight Island in Manchester on 8th and 9th of February. The two day event featured over 200...
Fringe Growth and Fringe Benefits by the Sea
It's a challenge to think of a festival that doesn't have an element of its founding team still in place; some will have plans for succession and some won't. Picking up the baton from...
A Weekend Away With The Fairies
‘The fairies told me to do it’ might not work as a defence for childhood (or adult) misbehaviour but, for Karen Kay, flickers of light, flashes of inspiration and a lifelong passion for all...
Togather. Gathering festivals and suppliers together.
Togather, the conflation of the words gather and together is one of those names that you probably wish you’d thought of when considering company nomenclature for the festival industry. It took founders Digby Vollrath...
Kendal Calling – Playing the Waste Game Within Tent City.
Cards on table: I love Cumbria. It’s a hell of a trip from Insights Towers down here in the South West but any excuse is taken, including a couple of days at Kendal Calling,...
