2000trees enjoys fully cashless success with PlayPass
UK: 2000trees, the latest UK festival to go 100% cashless using RFID technology, has proclaimed the move a great success and credits its new system, provided by PlayPass, with improving the customer experience along...
The Ticket Factory introduces new commercial team
UK: The Ticket Factory has launched a new commercial team, tasked with creating more sales opportunities and driving profitability throughout the business.
The news comes as Chris Pile, previously Consumer Sales and Marketing Director...
HebCelt’s ban on plastics wins government backing
UK: HebCelt Festival is banning single-use plastics from its site this year as it steps up a drive to make the event as environmentally friendly as possible.
The action – announced during Green Arts...
Field Day announces partnership with Central Saint Martins
UK: Field Day and the London based art school Central Saint Martins have announced their new collaboration for 2016. Central Saint Martins will be running a number of different projects on the Field Day...
London International Festival of Theatre returns this week
UK: London International Festival of Theatre has travelled the world to curate its programme for 2016, which promises to feature 'stylish, bizarre, moving, flirtatious, sensory' performances, as LIFT celebrates the world in London and...
MLA and Capital Sound thrive at Wild Life
UK: Having helped establish the inaugural Wild Life event at the new Brighton City Airport festival site last year — fulfilling an idea floated by dance music specialists Rudimental and Disclosure — Capital Sound...
Countercultural event Festival 23 to make its debut in July
UK: Festival 23, a brand new outdoor festival celebrating Discordian counterculture and positive activism, will launch from July 22 - 24 at a secret South Yorkshire location. The programme includes a conspiracy-off, art installations,...
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...
Studiomaster & Carlsbro return to Bloodstock
UK: Studiomaster & Carlsbro returned to Bloodstock from August 11 – 14 as an official equipment sponsor. Studiomaster & Carlsbro kit was in use across the site during the four day, four-stage festival at...
Insomnia Festival next in line for We Are Europe
NORWAY: From October 27 - 29, Insomnia Festival will run for the 15th time in Tromsø. As part of the We are Europe programme, the Norwegian event will invite Reworks Festival, Reworks Agora (Thessaloniki,...
