The Ticket Factory says industry must clean up its act or risk losing consumer...

UK: This week saw The Culture, Media and Sport Committee meet for a one-off evidence session into ticket touts and the problem of using software to harvest tickets from primary sellers' online sites and...

Eventbrite extends platform with RFID technology

USA: Eventbrite, the world’s largest self-service ticketing platform, has announced it has started offering an RFID (Radio-frequency identification) solution, designed to help large, multi-day festivals and events streamline entry-management operations, create and enhance revenue...


We Are FSTVL sells out

UK: With its fifth birthday celebrations set for May 26 – 28, We Are FSTVL has sold out. However, in anticipation of reaching capacity, the festival has reached an agreement to expand the site...

Costa Rica’s Ocaso Festival Expands to Five Days and New Location

Costa Rica's game changing and agenda setting Ocaso Festival is back for a seventh edition and will expand to five nights in 2024, taking place at the all new location of The Bohemian Lagarto...

Razorlight, Tom Jones and More for Cornbury Music Festival

UK: Cornbury Music Festival - set to take place amidst the rolling hills of the Great Tew Estate from July 10 - 12 - will this summer showcase a roster of acts encompassing everything...

New Star Events’ Orbit cements Concrete & Grass

CHINA: Star Events introduced a 22m Orbit and two V-towers to the Chinese market in September, providing the Main Stage and support structures at Concrete & Grass, a two-day music festival in Shanghai. Star...

Linecheck explained, with Dino Lupelli

Dino Lupelli has been working in the music industry since 1990, now general director of Music Innovation Hub, the first social enterprise in Italy dedicated to the music ecosystem. From their headquarters...

Manchester Folk Festival announces programme for inaugural edition

UK: Manchester Folk Festival, a new annual festival celebrating the best of English folk and acoustic roots music, has announced its full programme, set to take place from October 19 – 22 at...

Arundel Tulip Festival to return in April

UK: Over 60,000 tulips are set to bloom at Arundel Castle in West Sussex in mid-April, when the annual Tulip Festival will see the extensive gardens decorated with swathes of the colourful flowers for...

Record Summer for Weezevent’s Cashless Solution

Weezevent is reporting record deployment figures for their cashless solution in 10 countries, namely France, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and Canada, thus placing the company as the most widespread cashless...