GREENBELT ACHIEVING BIG THINGS
16 Mar 2017Greenbelt festival have recently won 3 awards for sustainability, inclusivity and accessibility setting the bar high for other UK festivals to follow suit. They won a Greener Festival award for sustainability, a Rainbow award for inclusion and the Gold award from Attitude is Everything for accessibility, an award only previously handed out to Glastonbury. “To qualify for Charter status, live music venues…
POWERFUL THINKING SMART ENERGY GUIDE 2017
16 Mar 2017Powerful Thinking launched the Smart Energy for Festivals and Events guide at the Green Events and Innovations Conference (GEI9) last week.The guide is an essential read for all event professionals and provides a wealth of knowledge and inspiration including: 24 factsheets on specific topics, two resource packs, briefing sheets for staff and stakeholders, over 10 new case studies and links to…
LIVE TICKET MARKET GROWTH WORTH $24 BILLION BY 2021
24 Feb 2017A recently published Global Ticket Market report by Technavio predicts the average growth rate of the live music ticketing industry to rise by 6.92% from 2016 to 2021. This means the global value of this particular market will be worth US$24.55 billion in 2021. The fastest growing sector when it comes to tickets is film followed by music and then…
SUZANNE BULL APPOINTED ‘SECTOR CHAMPION’ FOR MUSIC
24 Feb 2017The British Government has appointed 11 ‘sector champions’ to help make the UK music industry more inclusive for the disabled. One of the appointed ‘champions’ is Attitude is Everything founder & CEO, Suzanne Bull who has been championing better access for the disabled at gigs and festivals for several years. “I’ll be making a solid business case for accessibility and will be…
FESTIVAL VISION: 2025 MEETING UPDATE
24 Feb 201740 Festivals and organisations met on the 26th January to shape the future of the Festival Vision: 2025. Hosted by Chair of Powerful Thinking, Chris Johnson and Julie’s Bicycle founder and CEO Alison Tickell, the day included presentations from Richard Gilles, former Sustainability Director at M&S and Director of Festival On The Wall, ZAP Concepts event sustainability consultants Rob Scully and…
ID&C GRASS ROOTS BURSARY
24 Feb 2017Friend of AIF and festival wristband provider ID&C has launched its 7th annual Grass Roots Festival Bursary, giving small-to-medium festivals in the UK a chance to receive £2500 worth of security wristbands and credentials. Apply for the 2017 Grass Roots Festival Bursary here: https://www.idcband.com/grass-roots/ More than 50 festivals applied for last year’s bursary, which is open to any UK festival that has operated for…
BEHIND THE SCENES OF GOING MEAT & FISH FREE AT SHAMBALA
10 Feb 2017Shambala Festival made the bold decision to go meat and fish free in 2017 in an effort to spark up conversations around ‘moving us toward the ability to make positive, informed choices about how we impact other people globally today and in the future.’ For a festival made up of 70% meat-eater attendees this was a risky route to wander…
KENDAL CALLING SELLS OUT AND GOES VIRTUAL
10 Feb 2017Kendal Calling managed to sell 60% of their tickets before they announced a single band and then completely sold out within a week of making the lineup announcement. Impressive stuff! Now they’re the first festival to release a virtual tour of their festival site. With the help of Google you can now do a virtual tour of the site from last…
LINEUPS GALORE
10 Feb 2017The festival lineup announcements have been coming hard and fast over the past few weeks. It’s hard to keep up with them all so never fear, here’s a list of all of our members who’ve announced their lineups for this summer so far:2000trees ArcTanGentBelladrum Tartan Heart FestivalBestivalBlissfieldsBluedotBurning LanternCamp BestivalCornburyDeer Shed FestivalEden SessionsElderflower FieldsEnd of The RoadFairport’s Cropredy ConventionFarr FestivalGreen GatheringHandmade FestivalHeb…
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