Sziget and Viber team up for real-time communications service

HUNGARY: Sziget Festival and Viber – one of the leading global messaging apps with more than 754 million unique users worldwide and over 2.7 million in Hungary alone – are collaborating on a unique...

Festival-goers offer lifeline to organisers as majority plan to re-book tickets for next year

An overwhelming majority of festival-goers who have received refunds on their tickets for 2020 say they will rebook tickets for next year, new research commissioned by UK Festival Awards and Brothers Drinks reveals. Before the Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent...


PRG XL Video supports Massive Attack at BST Hyde Park

UK: For Massive Attack's headline performance at BST Hyde Park on July 1, PRG XL Video continued its relationship supplying lighting and rigging services to the festival, as well as working with Video Director...

Wide Awake Festival Add More Acts

Wide Awake Festival, one of London’s most distinctive and well-curated festivals in recent years. Today they add a host of new high-profile acts to their 2024 lineup, welcoming some of the best up-and-coming leftfield...

Easol Signs Afro Nation, El Dorado and Secret Garden Party to Booking Platform

Easol, the leading experience commerce technology platform, is announcing the launch of its partnership with some of the biggest names in UK and European festivals. Easol will be the official booking platform partner for...

Long Division Festival announces return, new format and first acts

UK: Wakefield’s Long Division Festival has announced its return after a fallow year in 2017. After taking a year off to take stock and better understand what he wanted the festival to be, festival...

Festival Republic to implement environmental improvements across all of its events

UK: Festival Republic has announced a laundry list of environmental improvements it will be rolling out across all of its events this year. The promoter has joined forces with the Greenpeace events team again...

Adamson supplies loudspeakers for China’s Mr. Future Festival

CHINA: The Mr. Future Music Festival brought nearly 40,000 fans to Wuhan, China to enjoy an array of hip-hop and electronic artists last November. Sharing the massive stage with acts like MC Hotdog, known...

500 Music Professionals Attend MIDƐM+in Cannes

The latest edition of MIDƐM+ has just taken place in Cannes. Bringing together industry professionals and festival-goers from all over the world once again this year, the event has established itself as the benchmark...

European Festival Awards to return on January 17 2018

The European Festival Awards will return for its ninth edition on January 17 at De Oosterpoort in Groningen, The Netherlands. The ceremony will once again take place on the opening night of Eurosonic Noorderslag,...