General Manager of the Association of Independent Festivals, Paul Reed has teamed up with the Welsh Music Foundation to bring two days of ‘master-classes’ to the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. With AIF’s first annual flagship event, The Festival Congress, taking place in conjunction with SWN Festival in October 2014 in Cardiff, the city was an ideal choice for AIF to…
As festival season fast approaches, and the exchange of tickets increases, all tickets posted on The Ticket Trust website will also feature on the Twickets app and Twitter feed, in order to provide a safe and ethical fan-to-fan platform for ticket re-selling. Three years ago AIF launched The Ticket Trust in association with Sandbag as an ethical alternative to the…
Today Kendal Calling made it’s third headline announcement for the Lake District based festival, due to take place 1 – 3rd August this year. Sunday night at Kendal Calling will see the huge pop star Example take to the main stage, while Brooklyn indie band Augustines headline the Calling Out Stage following the release of their second album. The festival…
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (8th & 9th August, Beauly, Inverness-shire) has sold out all weekend and Saturday tickets for the sixth year running in record time, five months ahead of the event taking place. The family-friendly festival, which is in its eleventh year, will host the smooth-voiced legend that is Tom Jones, brit-rock four-piece Razorlight, Billy Bragg, Frightened Rabbit and…
Security wristband suppliers and Friend of AIF ID&C has teamed-up with event waste recycling company More Bins to launch the UK’s first sustainability initiative for festival wristbands and lanyards. ‘Greener Wristbands’ encourages event organisers to return any used or excess fabric wristbands and lanyards to ID&C once their festival has ended. The returned products are then sorted and separated into…
The Lake District will set the stage for the award winning independent festival (and AIF member) Kendal Calling this August, and today the festival announced it’s second wave of artists. Amongst the 60 announced are Scotland’s own Frightened Rabbit, Kendal Calling favourite Jim Goodwin, up and coming band Champs, and it has also been confirmed that members of Ocean Colour…
Edinburgh International Festival will host a 7 day intense workshop for young festival managers, initiated by European Festivals Association (EFA). 52 emerging festival organisers from 28 countries have been selected to partake in the Atelier from 3 – 10 April, as well as 8 renowned mentors. “The Atelier for Young Festival Managers EDINBURGH 2014″ is set to continue the success…
End of The Road Festival today announced Gene Clark No Other Band, with members of Beach House, Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes as the final headliner for the Salisbury based Festival, taking place 29 – 31st August. In a UK premier and a UK exclusive of the unique collaboration, the headliners will be joining a bill also topped by Flaming…
The Secret Garden Party today announced that alongside Hercules and Love Affair and Foreign Beggars, US Hip Hop legends Public Enemy will headline the festival this summer. The Cambridgeshire festival is set to take place on 24 – 27 July, with an array of up and coming acts including Rae Morris, Deap Valley, Wolf Alice and Jagwar Ma. However, SGP…
The legendary Tom Jones is to headline the Friday main stage of Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (8th & 9th August 2014) for what is believed to be his first ever performance in the Highlands. And headlining the same stage on the Saturday night are the popular rock band Razorlight. “Sir Tom has long been a hero of mine and it…