ADE Dance & Brands announces first keynote speaker
NETHERLANDS: ADE Dance & Brands, the Amsterdam Dance Event's sub-conference focused on commerce and creativity in the dance music industry, has revealed its first keynote speaker. Raphael Aflalo, CEO and co-founder of My Love...
Attitude Is Everything reveals 26% rise in disabled attendees at live music events
UK: Attitude Is Everything – an organisation that strives to improve deaf and disabled people’s access to live music – has revealed that there has been a significant rise in the number of deaf...
Quantum Special Effects brings confetti, streamers and pyrotechnics to Glastonbury
UK: Quantum Special Effects provided confetti, streamers, and pyrotechnics for three major headline acts at the muddiest Glastonbury on record. Battling against pouring rain and mud that threatened to swallow flight cases, the Melksham...
Grub Stub launches new meal ticket service
UK: Grub Stub, the UK’s first electronic meal ticket service, has launched a new 'little sister' printing service called Grub Stub Lite. The introduction of the service means that event managers and production staff...
Festicket raises $6.3 million in Series-B round
UK: Festicket, Europe’s largest online platform for music festival experiences, raised $6.3 million in a round of investment led by Lepe Partners and existing investors pan-European VC firms Wellington Partners, PROfounders, and Playfair Capital....
VisitBlackpool appoints REM for Blackpool Illuminations’ site management
UK: Following a highly competitive tender process, VisitBlackpool has appointed Richmond Event Management (REM) to undertake the event and site management for the prestigious Blackpool Illumination Switch-On Festival Weekend, taking place from September 2...
Meyer Sound LEO delivers power and control at Isle of Wight Festival
UK: The 21st century revival of the legendary Isle of Wight Festival once again launched Europe’s season of summer celebrations, with this year’s edition benefiting from relatively hospitable weather and the auspicious debut of...
PlayPass announces summer cashless partnerships
UK: PlayPass' latest collaboration with PayPal saw the successful deployment of cashless payments at Amsterdam Open Air Festival, making it the second year the RFID specialist made the event fully cashless. This time round,...
Bowers & Wilkins Sound System returns to WOMAD
UK: Sound System, the four-way, 135,000 Watt speaker system designed by British speaker brand Bowers & Wilkins to deliver studio quality sound to the live environment, returns to WOMAD from July 28 - 31...
Pioneer and Powersoft to help bring Fabric to Lovebox
UK: World famous London nightclub Fabric has teamed up with Pioneer Pro Audio to assemble the sound system for its first-ever outdoor event, Lovebox Festival. Taking place from July 15 - 16 in London’s...