Archive for August, 2009
Eat To The Beat at V Festival
Eat To The Beat (ETTB), part of the Global Infusion Group, has added the prestigious V Festival in Chelmsford to its expansive festival rosta, alongside Glastonbury, Leeds, Reading, Big Chill, Latitude, Download, Lovebox and the Hyde Park series of shows. With over 15 years music catering experience, team leader Susie D’Andrea managed her 45 strong [...]
Online resource helps festival organisers track event impact
A NEW online resource developed by Edinburgh Napier University will allow festival organisers to analyse the impact their events have on local communities. The tool is designed to help festival operators ensure they cater for the needs of local people when they are planning events. It is also expected that the resource will be useful [...]
Sunderlands Stadium of Light shortlisted for tourism award
SUNDERLAND’S Stadium of Light has been shortlisted for a tourism award after hosting nearly a quarter of a million guests in just eight weeks. The venue is in with a chance of winning the Business Tourism of the Year Award, part of the North East Tourism Awards. In addition to a number of corporate events [...]
InsureandGo protect Big Gig against swine flu
UK insurer InsureandGo are providing Katherine Jenkins, Boyzone, Diversity and James Morrison with £1m of swine flu insurance for their performances at The Big Gig Weekend in Shepton Mallet at the end of September. Kevin Newton, property tycoon and promoter of the event, has taken out the unique insurance in a bid to offer some [...]
An insider’s Guide To Compostables Collection At Events
It’s not as easy as collecting trash, but a significant source of nutrient rich materials is available for composting with pre-event planning and outreach. Janice Sitton AN event happens any time a group of people come together for a purpose, whether it is to attend a concert, network at a conference, celebrate a wedding, run [...]
Sussex Obstacle Dash is Born
Thousands of runners are expected to descend on the South of England Centre in November for a unique new running race with a difference. The Sussex Obstacle Dash is a fun event at the home of The South of England Show on Sunday 8th November 2009 and claims to have a race for all. Dan [...]
Help for events organisers
ORGANISERS of festivals and other events across the Hambleton and Richmondshire areas are being invited to take part in a special networking event later this year. It will offer advice and information about organising events and provide information about new event publicity opportunities – as well as putting organisers in touch with each other to [...]
South Lanarkshire Council refuses festival licence
A music festival due to take place in Lanark this weekend has been cancelled amid a row between the organisers and the local authority. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers were due to headline Bagrock in the Valley, at Castlebank Park, in the town on Sunday. South Lanarkshire Council has refused to grant a licence for [...]
Event Suppliers Remain Optimistic, Despite Sales Declines
Although 57.1 percent of event industry suppliers have reported a decline in sales as a result of the global recession, 25 percent have actually seen them increase, according to a new survey from the Congress Rental Network. What’s more, while 45 percent of event industry suppliers have seen a decrease in event attendance, 59.9 percent [...]
Edinburgh Fringe Festival chief to hold crisis talks as venue costs spiral
FRINGE chief Kath Mainland is to hold crisis talks with independent venue operators amid fears that the soaring costs of bringing shows to Edinburgh risk killing the festival. A host of senior figures on the festival lined up yesterday to express fears about the future of the Fringe despite reports that the event is set [...]
Boomerang Plus forms Big Freeze JV with Channel 4 & Sports Vision
Boomerang Plus has entered into a joint venture with broadcaster Channel 4 and events organiser Sports Vision to create Big Freeze Limited. Big Freeze Limited is a production company created to organise and produce the Freesports on 4 Freeze live event franchise, the UK’s biggest winter sports and music festival, as well as other broadcast [...]
Life Sucks – Pass It On, with vMessage
Excelr8, the innovative coaching and training company, has picked up on the opportunities offered by vMessage.net and will be using it as a central part of its viral marketing activity, before, during and after the first Life Sucks – Pass It On conference, it is holding on 3rd October. Events companies are turning to the [...]
6,000 people attend Burnham-On-Sea rescue services day
More than 6,000 people crowded onto Burnham-On-Sea seafront on Sunday (August 16th) as dozens of local rescue organisations from across the West Country took part in a joint safety awareness day featuring displays and demonstrations. ESCAPE – the Emergency Services Community Awareness and Promotion Event – took place on Burnham seafront and involved hovercrafts, lifeboats, [...]
Changes to location ‘keeps corporate events enlivened’
By holding a team building corporate event or similar in a different location each month or year, businesses will be able to keep things fresh, it has been asserted. Gillian Hibberd, the corporate director of people and policy at Buckinghamshire County Council as well as the president of the Public Sector People Manager’s Association (PPMA), [...]
Delta Sound and Sound By Design join forces
Two well-known pro-audio industry heavy weights, Delta Sound and Sound By Design, are set to come together this autumn, with Delta Sound acquiring Sound By Design over an agreed period of time. The move will offer new and existing clients of both companies’ the significant benefit of their complementary skills sets and combined equipment portfolios. [...]
An interview with the organisers of Woodstock Festival
The first time Woodstock organiser Michael Lang rode in a helicopter over the festival site, the event was over. Far below him, he could see the devastation wreaked by 500,000 kids on what had once been a pristine upstate New York alfalfa field, a scene that would take the next three weeks to clear up. [...]
Event organisers fear the future of Thai food and craft festival
Organisers of a Thai food and craft festival fear the future of the event could be in jeopardy because of restrictions on alcohol sales. Sue Mayne has held the charity event on Southsea’s Castle Field for the past two years – despite losing money because of bad weather. This year Ms Mayne, who is also [...]
Creamfields organisers set for final permanent licence appeal
CREAMFIELDS campaigners will go head-to-head with the event organisers at an appeal over its licensing conditions. The festival is due to return to Daresbury for a two day-dance event during the August Bank Holiday for the fourth consecutive year. In June, the music giants were given the go ahead to showcase this year’s line-up. But [...]
T in the Park creator launches Formula 1 Rocks concerts
THE Scot who invented T in the Park has launched the first in a series of ultra-glamorous F1 Rocks concerts at Grand Prix races around the world. Glaswegian Paul Morrison, who introduced T in the Park’s promoters DF Concerts to music sponsors Tennents Live! back in 1992 with the idea of a massive Scottish music [...]
Pumphouse celebrates 21 years in the business.
Pumphouse, the Hertfordshire-based employee communications agency, is maintaining momentum through what is a difficult year for the industry. In adding two new clients and a significant level of turnover to what has been a solid year so far, the future looks good for the agency in this, its twenty-first year of business. One of the [...]
Vince Power plans new comedy festival
The promoter behind last year’s Mighty Boosh Festival has outlined his plans for similar future comedy-headlined events. Vince Power, who also devised the Hop Farm Festival, told the London Lite that while it wouldn’t feature Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt again, he hoped to stage another comedy event at the Hop Farm site where last [...]
Buick ends sponsorship of main PGA Tour events
The PGA Tour has suffered a double blow after the troubled Detroit carmaker Buick announced it was withdrawing its sponsorship from two events – the Buick Invitational and Buick Open – from next year. “As a result of the recent court-supervised restructuring of General Motors (GM) all agreements between Buick and the PGA Tour have [...]
Bloom music festival is cancelled due to venue change
Music festival Bloom has been put off until next year due to problems caused by a last minute venue change, organisers have announced. The event, which was set to take place at Chepstow racecourse on 14-16 August, featured a host of acts including Frankmusik on the line-up. Ticket holders are being offered the chance to [...]
Nottingham to host the next Ironman event.
THE world’s toughest one-day endurance event is coming to Nottingham in August next year. A long-distance triathlon consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile marathon run are to be completed consecutively and all within one day of racing. The event – to take place in Nottingham on August 8, 2010 – will [...]
Showsec Family excel at Camp Bestival.
Organisers heaped praise on Showsec following a tremendously successful Camp Bestival this July. In the events’ second year, audience numbers increased by an amazing 50% from 10,000 to 15,000, including 5,000 kids. Loud Sound’s Event Director Jim King commented: “We were very happy with the operation undertaken by Showsec at Camp Bestival. They had the [...]
THE SHOWMAN’S SHOW 2009 – 25 years on
Although it is 25 years since the first show was staged, the 2009 event on October 21st & 22nd at Newbury will only be the 24th Show so we shall have to wait until 2010 for the great celebration! In 1984, following 16 years of successfully publishing the annual Showman’s Directory, Stephen & Jean Lance [...]
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