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“I won’t stand by while these cherished local spaces disappear, replaced by boarded-up windows and ‘For Sale’ signs,” PM Andy Burnham said on the announcement.
BANG! Festival takes place on 23 and 24 October at Pontio, with The Bug Club and GANS headlining.
Fat Dog and Mike D of the Beastie Boys headline a line-up of more than 90 emerging acts and new performers on 23-24 October.
Gracenote Promotion Ltd (GPL), the company behind Morvala Festival, has gone into administration, leaving contractors,…
The long-term music industry plan aims to help the music industry “grow, innovate and succeed” through a collective £45m package.
Insights
Simon Clarke and Melissa Kidd from Shindig speak on sticking to your guns, even when the UK government gets involved.
Despite high-profile cancellations and political pressures, the University of East London’s Zoe Adjey says why festivals still need to make a stand with their bookings.
Extreme weather is becoming more commonplace. Jacob Worek from the UKCMA explains why festivals need to be prepared.
Outer Town founder Harry Dodson on how creative collaboration birthed a festival of musical discovery and medieval mysticism.
Interviews
Sweden’s Way Out West may have been able to rest on its laurels as a…
The festival season may be soon coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean the…
Few major festivals have come from such humble beginnings as Budapest’s Sziget Festival. What started…
Vikram Gudi has made his name in the music industry in quite untraditional ways. He…
Is it becoming harder to throw a party in a green field? Do music festivals…
Muddy fields, warm beer and questionable food stuffs were once synonymous with the festival experience.…
Cornish musician, Jon Stafford of Haunt the Woods, is set to bring a new festival…
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Industry news and updates from Festival Insights
After eight years of bringing its pop-up stores to festivals, the supermarket will remain the official supermarket sponsor of Download Festival, Klarna Presents Latitude Festival, Pepsi Presents Reading & Leeds Festivals and Pepsi Presents Creamfields Festival until 2031.
Laura Gibb, executive director of Martyn’s Law at the Security Industry Authority, speaks on the new legislation and what festivals need to consider.
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