Better Entertainment Weather Around the World
The story is all too common. It begins with an average festival morning; stages are prepped and the crew loads in their equipment. Trucks roll in and out backstage, while food carts, beer stations...
The European Festival Market Report 2014
EUROPE: Ahead of the European Festival Awards and Eurosonic Nooderslag in Groningen (NL) next week, the former has released the European Festival Market Report for 2014. The data comes courtesy of the 2014 European...
An Interview With Definitive Event Policing
If it weren't for security services, festivals would be the perfect microcosm for demonstrating exactly why Anarchist utopias wouldn't work. Taking thousands of try-hard teenagers away from the panopticon of parental supervision and placing...
An Interview With Marcato
CANADA: I’m sure we can all agree that admin work is somewhat akin to the Sixth Circle of Hell, and this must be especially true for the lucid nightmare that is festival organisation.
Traditionally,...
An Interview with Beat-Herder
Beat-Herder will return to Lancashire from July 14 – 16, once again aiming to unite the tribes of contemporary dance music via its presentation of innumerable sub-genres across 21 stages. With a personal touch...
ROADIES CREATE NON-PROFIT COOKBOOK TO FUND MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID ON TOUR
The Roadie Cookbook: Toured There, Ate That is a new charity publication created by live music crew members with the mission of funding Mental Health First Aid training for every tour bus in the UK.
Borne...
Mixed Reality & Game Engines: Why you should be using this technology for your...
Mitchell Bayer-Goldman is Co-founder and COO of Volta XR, here he he discusses how performances can be enhanced by the application of existing technology.
Festival goers expectations are higher...
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...
An Interview with Electric Castle
Electric Castle will host its sixth edition this July, returning to the fifteenth century Transylvanian monument from which it derives its namesake with a characteristically eclectic cast of international talent. Amongst other auspicious factors,...
