Mojo Barriers at BoomTown Fair

Hampshire’s Matterley Estate once again played host to the fully immersive BoomTown Fair from August 11 - 14, which this year welcomed an increased capacity of 60,000 music lovers and saw the addition of...

Field Day

Field Day took over East London's Victoria Park on June 3 for a truncated single-day showcase that featured sets from the likes of Run The Jewels, Flying Lotus, Slowdive, Dr John Cooper Clarke, Death...


Latest CRF results include £millions for festivals and suppliers.

Festivals including Deer Shed, Glastonbury, Y Not and Womad are amongst Hundreds of arts, heritage and cultural organisations across England that will receive a share of £107 million from the additional £300...

Soultown’s Population Boom

We’ve all done it, drifting apart from school friends as our own lives, careers, businesses, and families lead our focus away from those carefree days. Old school friends Joe Courtney and Lucy...

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...

An Interview with Big Chief Tipis

UK: As a sixteen year old débutante I attended my first ever Leeds Festival, ending up camped on a hillside with a fortunately close buddy on what felt like an 85% gradient. We spent...

European Festival Awards 2015 – The Shortlists

The votes have been counted and we can now reveal the finalists in this year’s European Festival Awards. This year – the 7th edition - saw over 800,000 votes cast by fans from 50...

Skiddle creates CHRISmas Cards with Macmillan Cancer Support

Primary ticket company Skiddle recently made a pledge to raise £100,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support by the end of 2017, a move inspired by the support work offered by the charity to one of...

The UK Festival Awards 2017 shortlists

The UK Festival Awards – set to host its 14th edition on November 30 at Troxy in London – has revealed all of its shortlists for 2017. They are as follows... The Innovation Award Bearded Theory...

All That Glitters Is Not Microplastic

That single use plastic bottle that ends up in landfill, that’ll be microplastic eventually. Pop it in the recycling and it might get turned into something reusable, but that’ll be microplastic eventually....