Marcato announces new line-up of products for festivals
CANADA: The global festival industry has professionalised at an incredible rate, and trend watchers like The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Forbes Magazine seem to agree. The impact of this professionalisation has been...
PRS for Music Announces Tariff Review of Festivals and Concerts
UK: PRS for Music has today announced that it will be running an eight-week consultation on the terms of its Popular Music Concerts Tariff (‘Tariff LP’). The tariff is applied to ticketed live popular...
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...
Bestival Part II
UK: In our second and final instalment of this year’s Bestival coverage, we discuss the ways some of the festival’s sponsors integrated their brands - from concept-driven paint parties to a gig atop a...
Energy Revolution partners with Solar for Schools
UK: Energy Revolution, the sustainability charity helping to tackle the environmental impact from fossil fuel travel to events, has partnered with the Solar for Schools project.
In 2018, Energy Revolution helped its members –...
BBC Music Introducing Live to return in October
UK: BBC Music Introducing Live will return to London’s Tobacco Dock from October 31 – November 2. Following three days of talks, panels, performances and masterclasses last year, the event once again hopes to...
Festicket launches Pay with Friends feature for group bookings
UK: Festicket has launched a new feature that allows fans to pay for festival tickets as a group. By using Pay with Friends, the lead booker can reserve tickets for their whole group while only...
eps opens new headquarters in Canada
CANADA / GERMANY: eps – purveyor of temporary event flooring and crowd control solutions – has expanded its international operations by opening a new division in Canada.
Okan Tombulca, Managing Director of the eps group,...
AIM launches immediate access crisis fund for independent music contractors
AIM has launched a support fund aimed at contractors and freelance workers in the independent music industry whose source of income has been severed without warning due to lost work in April and May as a...
£800 million Reinsurance Scheme officially opens to help give live events cover to plan...
The UK Live Events Reinsurance Scheme will give events the confidence they need to plan through to summer 2022The Scheme will support live events across the country - such as concerts and...
