UK Festival Awards 2015 – The Winners

We know you’ll most likely skip whatever we write here, so without further ado here are the winners of the 2015 UK Festival Awards… Best Use of New Technology In association with: White Light WINNER: QUANTUM SPECIAL...

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...


UK Festival Awards 2015 – Who’s in the Room?

With a mere six days to go until the 12th annual UK Festival Awards & Conference, tickets are almost sold out for what promises to be a superlative event celebrating the beloved UK festival...

An Interview with Marcato (2015)

Since interviewing Marcato last year, the festival management software company has been busy – so much so that it necessitates the use of italics. In addition to launching an entire new line-up of products,...

UK Festival Awards 2015 – The Shortlists

The UK Festival Awards has revealed the shortlists for the vast majority of its categories, which include Best Major, Medium Sized and Small Festivals; Headline Performance of the Year; Best Non-Music Festival; Best Hospitality;...

An Interview with Olivier Dutertre, Founder of TheSoundYouNeed

TheSoundYouNeed (TSYN) is a music discovery Youtube channel that was created in December 2012 during one night of fevered activity as Olivier Dutertre transferred his SoundCloud playlists to YouTube. With his own abstract visual aesthetic and smartly...

ADE 2015

Amsterdam Dance Event celebrated its 20th anniversary edition from October 14 - 18, with precisely 2289 performances, 510 speakers, and 1001 events across the titular city, attracting over 365,000 visitors and 5,500 professionals from...

An Interview with Full Fat

It's a cliché by this point to talk about the festival market being saturated, which I do unashamedly further down this piece, but that's because it's largely rooted in truth. Assuming logistical provisions have...

An Interview with Festival de musique émergente

Festival de musique émergente – or FME for short – entered its 13th edition this September with close to 70 groups and artists across the programme, most of whom were unsigned and emerging musicians. Festival...

Oasis Festival

With a pool as its centrepiece and a soundtrack comprising mostly house and disco imports, the inaugural Oasis festival inculcated an ambling and exploratory vibe during the day that filled out and ramped up...