Bordeaux Wine Festival marks 10th anniversary with Intellitix
FRANCE: This year’s Bordeaux Wine Festival has entrusted event technology specialist, Intellitix, to deliver innovative Tasting Passes embedded with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips at the prestigious wine festival, set to take place from...
Shambala sells out despite gloomy forecast
UK: Shambala Festival, set to take place from August 25 – 28, has sold out this week – proving that its bold decision to go meat and fish free has not affected ticket sales....
Lightning risk adds to music festival woes
UK: The international delivery expert ParcelHero is warning that many festivals risk being cancelled by the latest blow to hit the festival scene: an increasingly torrential summer. One festivalgoer has already been killed by...
Summer Days announces cancellation
UK: The organisers of Summer Days, the newly launched boutique music and food festival set to make its debut this year, have announced that the event has been cancelled. Summer Days was scheduled to...
We Are FSTVL creates ‘airfield of dreams’ with MLA and Capital Sound
UK: Specialists in delivering high octane sound for international EDM events, Capital Sound returned to the award-winning We Are FSTVL site at Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster over May Bank Holiday, fielding their premier...
Bratz surveys family attitudes towards festivals
UK: A survey undertaken by iconic fashion doll manufacturer Bratz has discovered that seven out of 10 parents are keen to head to a festival with their kids instead of on a traditional summer...
Colour Sound celebrates 10 years with Field Day
UK: UK Lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment recently celebrated 10 years of being a main technical supplier to Field Day – one of London’s premier and most popular urban music events,...
Watch AlunaGeorge performing via Minecraft at The Gathering
NORWAY: The UK based electronic duo AlunaGeorge recently had its performance at Norway's The Gathering Festival live streamed within the heavily pixelated digital realm of Minecraft. Graphical and animation limitations of this particular title...
Meyer Sound LEO family systems serve transatlantic festivals
UK: LEO Family systems kicked off Meyer Sound’s 2016 summer festival season, powering multi-day events at two major music festivals on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Boston Calling drew huge crowds to City...
Northern Festivals Network and Unlimited Impact commission disability-centric festival acts
UK: The Northern Festivals Network and Unlimited Impact are inviting disabled artists and companies from any discipline to request support for the creation and touring of a new outdoor work for families at greenfield...