VAULT Festival celebrates most successful year to date with 47,000 tickets sold

UK: VAULT Festival took its final bow of 2017 on March 5 to rapturous applause as final ticket sales totalled 47,000 across nearly 250 shows over six weeks. The Festival also revealed that its...

NorthSide becomes a 100% organic festival

DENMARK: NorthSide Festival has released its latest sustainability report, which demonstrates marked improvement in the festival's environmental policies and promises to deliver a 100% organic selection of food in 2017. The work to construct NorthSide...


Gigantic celebrates 10 years in ticketing business

UK: Industry professionals, friends and family joined ticketing company Gigantic in Nottingham last week to celebrate a successful decade in business. The landmark anniversary was also marked by Gigantic becoming a finalist in two...

Ticket Arena & Event Genius serve over one million customers with RFID cashless payments...

UK: Ticket Arena and Event Genius have served over one million customers using radio-frequency identification (RFID) cashless payments in the last 12 months, new figures show. The statistics, released by the Leeds-based primary ticket seller...

Dimensions Festival launches record label

CROATIA: Dimensions will launch an eponymous record label on July 14 with an eclectic 12-track compilation featuring Byron The Aquarius, Mim Suleiman, Mike Dehnert, Marcos Cabral, Obsolete Music Technology and more. Led by Dimensions Soundystem’s...

Attitude is Everything launches new Grassroots Venue Charter of Best Practice

UK: Attitude is Everything, the UK’s leading authority on live music accessibility for deaf and disabled people, has revealed a new Grassroots Venue Charter of Best Practice. This new Charter is part of the...

Ultra Miami utilises 250 Robe fixtures

USA: Ultra Music Festival, the eminent EDM event staged along Bayfront Park in downtown Miami, attracted over 150,000 attendees for three days this March. Robe BMFL and Pointe moving lights were prominent on three...

Rapture Electronic Music Festival returns during Miami Music Week 2018

USA: After a hugely successful festival launch during Miami Music Week in 2017 – with headline acts that included Andhim, Art Department, Ellen Allien, Hernan Cattaneo, Rodriguez Jr., Steve Lawler, and tINI – Rapture...

An Interview With Nutickets

UK: Touted as a 'complete event platform', Nutickets' app addresses as many needs of the festival organiser as possible without being hyper-sentient and having Scarlett Johansson's voice. Already working with Ultra South Africa, Holi...

Guest Director Rokia Traoré unveils 2019 Brighton Festival programme

UK: The celebrated Malian musician Rokia Traoré has revealed the full programme for Brighton Festival 2019 – the largest annual, curated multi-arts festival in England. This year promises to be an especially wide-ranging and...