Continental Drifts launches new website
UK: Continental Drifts - the idiosyncratic multi-faceted event company - has launched a splendid new website. Comprising a small team of industry specialists, CD's work spans across event management, experiential brand activation, artist booking...
Festicket demonstrates rise in overseas festival attendance
UK: Festicket, the world’s largest online booking portal for music festivals, has shared its annual industry findings as the summer season draws to a close. As a leading retailer of international live music experiences,...
Rhythms Sans Frontières & Delivering Festival Takeaways
Yes takeaways, not the ones we’ve been used to over the past couple of years (yeah, wish we’d bought Deliveroo shares too…and Zoom) but those little nuggets that festivalgoers take from site,...
Production Park pledges £20,000 to fund university places
UK: Production Park, a unique cluster of live event based companies in Wakefield, has announced that it will fund university places at its industry leading training centre, Backstage Academy, making an initial pledge of...
A Greener Festival announces training dates for 2017
UK: A Greener Festival has confirmed the dates for its 2017 training courses, entitled 'An Introduction to Environmental Assessment of Festivals and Events' and 'A Greener Festival Assessors Training', with just a few places...
Escalating Costs Contribute to Hideaway Cancellation
New Festival, Hideaway, due to take place in August at Crix, near Chelmsford, with headliners including James Bay, Bastille and Clean Bandit, has announced its cancellation. In a statement released on their web site...
Superbloom Announce NeoNeo Stage To Support New Artists
After announcing all the main stage artists, SUPERBLOOM is adding numerous newcomers to its line-up for the NeoNeo Stage. On 3 and 4 September, the SUPERBLOOM Festival will celebrate its premiere at...
Robbie Williams to Play Sziget Festival
HUNGARY: Sziget Festival, recently crowned as the Best Major Festival in Europe by the European Festival Awards, has confirmed that Robbie Williams will headline the starting day of the one week long festival holiday...
Bookitbee rebrands as LIVE IT
UK: The self-service ticketing platform Bookitbee has announced that it will change its name to LIVE IT on June 14.
The company's CEO, Kenton Ward, explained that the new name would reflect the evolving...
AIF partners with RAW Bottles following Drastic On Plastic campaign
UK: RAW Bottles has become the exclusive reusable bottle supplier to the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF).
The partnership is part of AIF’s Drastic On Plastic campaign, launched on Earth Day 2018, to reduce...
