Let’s Be The Change
30 Jan 2017Director of Entertainment Intelligence Sammy Andrews launched a new initiative last week in the hopes to make industry speaker lineups more diverse moving forward. Let’s Be The Change is a directory of females who work in the music/entertainment/live industry who would be interested in speaking at conferences and other events. Sammy said “I’m getting increasingly frustrated with the perpetual fu**ing…
Music Tourism Convention
30 Jan 2017VisitBritain, Sound Diplomacy and Marketing Liverpool have joined forces for the first ever Music Tourism Convention taking place in Liverpool on the 16th & 17th February. The event will explore how music can influence and benefit tourism and the organisers have already shone a light on some impressive statistics relating to the UK overall with direct and indirect music tourism spend…
MAST Drugs Testing Discussed at Festival Congress 2016
17 Jan 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQcXzKsi1Io&t=7s
A Greener Festival Award Winners For 2016
16 Jan 201725 festivals across 13 countries awarded for in 2016. 10th year of the Greener Festival Awards Tougher standards raise the bar and challenge events. Awards presented at EPIC, Eurosonic Noorderslag, Netherlands. A Greener Festival (AGF) have announced all 25 winners of the Greener Festival Award since the schemes relaunch in 2016. These are the first events to receive this prestigious…
Festival Vision 2025: Meeting At The Festival Supplier Awards
13 Jan 2017Powerful Thinking and Julie’s Bicycle will hold the first Festival Vision:2025 Meeting at The Festival Suppliers Awards on the 26th Jan. The meeting will bring together 30 plus Vision Festivals, events that have pledged to work together for a more sustainable festival industry, to shape the future of the 10-year Vision, and take part in professional skills workshops for their onward…
ILMC Bursary Scheme & Festival Summit Day
13 Jan 2017ILMC are promoting their bursary scheme for the third year to give young professionals and start-up companies an opportunity to attend and participate in ILMC for the first time. If you’d like to find out more and apply head here. The deadline to apply is the 27th January, successful applicants will be notified in the first week of February. More information about ILMC can…
New Tent Watch Initiative
13 Jan 2017Tent Watch is a creative campaign that has proven to significantly lower theft at festivals. Incubated and honed at Shambala festival over two years, the fun and effective combination of audience interactions, signage and messaging contributed to reducing tent thefts by 90%. The energetic team behind the initiative is now ready to offer their services to other AIF events in…
Falls Festival Crowd Crush – Incident Response
13 Jan 2017Falls Festival which is owned by Secret Sounds (recently acquired by Live Nation) operates three festivals in three cities simultaneously over the new year period: Marion Bay – Tasmania, Byron Bay – New South Wales and Lorne – Victoria. The success of this year’s festivals was tainted with a very serious crowd crush at the Victorian event. Around 80 attendees were injured…
John Giddings & Lee Denny at Festival Congress 2016
05 Jan 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9JEcuuaFEQ
New Festival For Torquay – Grinagog
09 Dec 2016The creative geniuses behind Glastonbury Festival’s Shangri-La zone, Bestival’s Caravanserai, Boomtown’s Ballroom Stage and Wilderness’ Carousel have announced the launch of a new festival in Torquay called Grinagog. The event is promising 15 stages and 200 acts across all sorts of genres. The event will take place in various venues around Torquay from 7-9th April 2017. The mayor of Torbay said ‘through…
Cashless Code Of Conduct Consultation
09 Dec 2016Due to the rapid rise and interest in cashless technology at festivals, NCASS has initiated a month-long consultation for a ‘Cashless Code of Practice, with the aim of getting the COP in place in time for the 2017 events season’. Mark Laurie, director at NCASS said “This code will hopefully provide the clarity and peace of mind required for RFID technology…
More Live Nation Acquisitions
09 Dec 2016Live Nation have acquired 3 more festivals in the past few weeks including Secret Sounds’ Falls Festival and Splendour in the Grass in Australia and Sweden Rock festival in Sweden. 2016 has seen them publicly announce seven major global acquisitions in territories all around the world including France, Greece, South Africa, Canada and Australia. Their festival portfolio is now comprised of 80…