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,...

Green Events Code Receives EIF Funding

The Event Industry Forum (EIF) has awarded Vision: 2025 a grant to lead on development of the Green Events Code, for the Outdoor Events Industry in 2023. The £30,000 EIF grant from the Purple Guide...


Clean Bandit, Temples and More Added to Truck Festival

UK: Classical-inspired stars Clean Bandit, psychedelic Heavenly Records signings Temples and innovative duo Public Service Broadcasting are amongst the latest additions to the ever-expanding line-up for Truck Festival, taking place from July 17 -...

Event Genius launches reserved seating platform

UK: The Leeds based ticketing company Event Genius has announced the launch of a new reserved seating platform. The new feature integrates seamlessly into the company’s existing platform of solutions and will be used by...

Flow Festival adds new indoor venue

FINLAND: Flow Festival has confirmed its addition of a new indoor venue in the Suvilahti area. The comparatively intimate Zalando Factory stage is housed in an old sheet metal hall and presents a series...

Grandfest to return to London this summer

UK: This summer will see the return of GrandFest, a one-day mini festival set in the heart of East London. Presented by older people’s charity Royal Voluntary Service, GrandFest celebrates the heritage skills of...

Crowd Connected pioneers staff tracking innovation

UK: Award-winning technology start-up Crowd Connected has further expanded the capabilities of colocator, its location insight platform, with the introduction of a new staff-tracking module. In a world first, colocator’s new software-as-a-service solution enables named...

Peter Gabriel to receive Outstanding Contribution to Festivals accolade at UK Festival Awards

UK: The UK Festival Awards has announced that this year's Outstanding Contribution to Festivals Award will be presented to Peter Gabriel. Most renowned for his illustrious and prolific music career - which has thus...

Gigseekr Connects Wild Paths’ Bands and Fans

Wild Paths, the independent conference and music festival celebrating the creative music scene in Norwich, recently partnered with Gigseekr to create a ‘platform takeover’ for their 2022 edition, so that audiences could access the...

ESNS announces first acts for 2024 edition

ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag), the key exchange for new European music talent announces the first acts for its 38th edition line-up. Amber Broos, Bateu Matou, C’est Karma, Clarissa Connelly, Froukje, Joker Out, KAMRAD, Izzy and the...