Archive for December, 2008
Crowd safety fears if security guards are struck off – AUS
THE licences of nearly 10,000 private security guards are set to be revoked within weeks, jeopardising crowd control at pubs, sporting events and concerts in the new year. The guards have until January 8 to meet stringent new training requirements or be struck off the Security Industry Register operated by NSW Police. The move affects [...]
Factors behind Reading festival crush
The crush outside this year’s Reading Festival was caused by a combination of factors – including fake tickets being sold and music lovers attempting to sneak in unnoticed. That is according to Reading Borough Council experts who have examined why “jostling” and “sporadic outbursts” took place before 2008’s annual fest.
Gay culture festival hailed a “great Success”
A festival of gay culture in Liverpool brought in record numbers of visitors, it has been announced. The Homotopia Festival attracted 12,000 people to more than 50 events in the city, Liverpool Culture Company said. The highlight of this year’s event was a retrospective of works by the artist Tom of Finland. Warren Bradley, Liverpool [...]
BikeRadar Live: UK’s biggest new bike festival
On the weekend of 30-31 May 2009, Britain’s new Grand Prix circuit, Donington Park, in Derbyshire, will host BikeRadar Live, a massive festival of cycling including an expo of the bike industry’s best gear, road and mountain bike rides and races, bike demos, and lots more. The BikeRadar events team is teasing us by keeping [...]
£¼m police bill for BNP festival
POLICING the British National Party’s annual festival in Denby cost a quarter of a million pounds it has been revealed. Derbyshire Police had 400 officers on duty during the course of the August event that was staged on land owned by party member Alan Warner off Codnor Denby Lane. The £250,000 policing bill included overtime [...]
Britain to host major Indian arts event
The British Museum today unveiled a wide-ranging six-month programme of events next year exploring India, from its art and culture to environmental threats. The London venue will host Indian Summer from May to October 2009. The season will include exhibitions, installations, performances, lectures and film screenings. Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, from [...]
Economy Gives Event Industry Trial by Fire: US
Half of all in-house event professionals and nearly 60 percent of independents predict they will stage more events this year than in 2007. The forecast from event rental operators is even rosier: Seventy-nine percent foresee they will be busier with special events in 2008 than in 2007. These are wonderful forecasts. Pity they are forecasts [...]
Events catering – All partied out?
Even last December, as the talons of a hatching credit crisis poked through their shell, the City Champagne continued to flow. Take Barclays as an example: despite losing £1.3b in December, the company’s investment banking arm, Barclays Capital, still splashed out a cool £600,000 on a two-day Christmas bash beside the Houses of Parliament. Insulated [...]
Who’s going to pay for Euro 2016?
A joint Scotland-Wales bid for the European Championships will require the building of new stadiums, amongst other things Scotland has already bagged one top sporting jewel by securing the 2014 Commonwealth Games for Glasgow, but its hopes of getting the European Championships two years later will probably never get out of the blocks. The cost [...]
Festival organisers drop Disney advert.
Organisers behind an 18-day Christmas festival in a village near Wolverhampton have been forced to remove a section of their promotional website, following an investigation by trading standards officers. Marquees have gone up in a field off Bognop Road, Essington, in preparation for its transformation into a mini-Lapland at the weekend. But a promotional claim [...]
Glade festival quits West Berkshire
Organisers blame West Berkshire Council for the decision to move the Glade festival out of the area AN ANGRY backlash has begun among Glade festival fans after organisers blamed West Berkshire Council for the decision to quit the area. A statement released this week by one of the festival team, Anselm Guise, said: “We are [...]
Sheep dung blamed for 161 falling ill at mountain bike event
Public health inspectors were called in after the cyclists fell ill with food poisoning after an event in the Welsh countryside. The cyclists tested positive for the bacterium campylobacter – usually caused by uncooked meat and poultry. But following an investigation by health experts, the muddy mountain cycle course was found to be heavily contaminated [...]
Death of Cavalier casts shadow over event
THE death of Mary King’s Olympic horse, Call Again Cavalier, cast a cloud over the inaugural Express Eventing International Cup held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff at the weekend. The much-loved horse had to be destroyed after breaking a leg. The pair were in the British line-up which took team bronze at this summer’s [...]
Primesight promotes Mill Live event in Glasgow
LONDON – Outdoor media owner Primesight has secured a campaign with Miller Genuine Draft to promote its new music event, The Mill Live, in Glasgow city centre. Primesight worked with Miller, media agency MPG and specialist Posterscope to install pretend stages at Buchanan Street and St Enoch, two of the busiest stations on the Glasgow [...]
Arson charge after bonfire event.
A man who took part in a Bonfire Night party on Teesside has been charged with arson after allegedly breaching a village bylaw dating back to the 1880s. Brett Duxfield, 39, from Hartlepool, is accused of lighting the flame on Elwick’s village green last month. Parish councillors banned the event in 1994 after rowdy scenes [...]
New Forest Lapland attracts over 1,000 complaints from angry families
ORGANISERS of the Lapland New Forest Christmas theme park were today under investigation after more than 1,300 people complained about the controversial attraction. The surge of anger from visitors who feel they were ripped off has been described as unprecedented by trading standards officers who have visited the site near Ringwood and are studying promotional [...]
Is it 3rd time lucky for Asia Pacific Film Festival?-Hong Kong
The recently postponed 52nd Asia Pacific Film Festival will now go ahead in Taipei sometime in 2009. Decision was made this weekend at a Jakarta board meeting of the Federation of Motion Picture Producers in Asia Pacific (FPA). This year’s edition of the fest was supposed to run Nov. 18-21 in the Indonesian capital, but [...]
New Reading festival Heavenly Planet to launch
Heavenly Planet will take place next July A new festival, Heavenly Planet, is set to launch in Reading next July, with The Wonder Stuff, Fence Collective and The Bays among the acts confirmed to appear at the inaugural bash. The event will take place on July 10-12 in fully-covered arenas beside the river Thames in [...]
Indian Live Earth event cancelled
A Live Earth concert scheduled to take place in Mumbai on 7 December has been called off in the wake of last week’s terror attacks. Bon Jovi and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters were among the stars scheduled to appear at the event, intended to raise awareness of climate change. “We will continue to work for [...]
Festival crackdown: 51 drug arrests
New South Wales Police arrested 51 people on drugs charges at yesterday’s Global Gathering music festival in Sydney’s Moore Park. Police working with drug dogs seized cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamines, ketamine, LSD and the prescription drug valium.
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