VIP is Antithetical to Dance Music Culture
Ed Priest is the Events Promo Assistant for Hospitality in the Park, a one-day 'DNB BBQ' festival in London's Finsbury Park whose next edition is set for September 23.
Hospitality has cemented itself as...
Event Welfare: more than just ‘the drugs tent’
Corinne Lane is the Senior Co-ordinator of the National Event Welfare Service. The service was formed in 1995, and provides welfare support to events large and small across the UK. Corinne is a qualified...
Taking Live Mobile Marketing and VR Performances to a New Level
George Kapellos is Head of Marketing & Partnerships at Mativision, a Shoreditch based company that provides brands and entertainment businesses with the ability to film and broadcast in full 360˚ vision and virtual reality....
Guest List Management: A Growing Pain for Growing Festivals (Part 1)
Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Natasha Hillier inherited both motivation and innovation. After graduating from esteemed business school, McGill University, Natasha joined the live event & festival management software firm, Marcato. Starting out...
Improving the State of Festival Welfare
Kristin Karas is currently completing her B.S in Public Health Studies with a concentration in Community Health at East Carolina University. She serves as an intern for the US-based harm reduction organisation Dancesafe, managing...
The Rise of the Local Festival
Robert Dudley Manages Live Events and Production at The Fair. As large-scale event delivery specialists, The Fair focusses on three things: safety, quality and budget. Some of the agency’s regional projects include Mostly Jazz,...
The Digital Experience and its Impact on Overall Festival Performance
Christian Hill is the Managing Director of Project Simply, a digital design agency that works predominantly with festivals and venues to create beautiful brands and digital experiences.
We’ve recently embarked on a global insight piece...
Festivals and the Impact of Alcohol Duty Increases
Bryony Balmforth, Director at BAND, accountants and business advisors to the entertainment industry, explains this year's changes to alcohol duty and how festivals need to keep an eye out for the changes in consumer...
A More Personal Approach to Security
Nick Lucy is the Communications and Marketing Manager for Showsec. In this article he focuses on what makes John Hadland one of the great characters of the festival scene, and how we can all...
Tackling Food Waste When Feeding Crew and Artists
Lou Fitzpatrick has extensive experience in festival and event management. With a passion for technology and problem solving, Lou is always looking for ways to streamline processes to make lives easier for event managers,...