Tag: Isle of Wight Festival
Festival Technology Foils Fraudsters
Wireless gate access control technology deployed for the first time at the Isle of Wight Festival demonstrated that ticket touts and fraudsters can be stopped from profiting in the trade of counterfeit wristbands. Solo Promoters, organisers of the Festival were able to upload all unique wristband serial numbers into the access control system which immediately [...]
Campervan Event Cancelled
An event that had anticipated up to 3,000 VW campervan enthusiasts has had to be cancelled due to waterlogged and muddy land. Wight Aircooled’s Big Weekend takes place on the same farmland as the Isle of Wight Festival. The combinations of heavy rain and the music festival having only recently taken place have led to [...]
Isle of Wight Fans Salute Contactless Wristbands as the Latest Festival Essential
Security wristband specialists, ID&C helped provide last weekend’s Isle of Wight Festival VIP guests with the UK’s first ever prepaid contactless payment wristband. The project, led by MasterCard® saw festival goers in the VIP arena put the PayPass™ prepaid wristbands to the test, unanimously rating them as a must-have for future live events. Research conducted [...]
Isle of Wight to Increase Capacity by 20,000
Following an application made last month by the organisers, the Isle of Wight festival has been granted permission to increase it’s capacity by 20,000. This means the festival can now legally hold 90,000 people on site. The increase was granted following a meeting of local councillors, despite the objections of one representative, Conservative member Geoff [...]
Isle of Wight festival applies to for new licence to increase capacity by 20,000
An application under the Isle of Wight Act has already been made by organiser Solo and there is an April 12 deadline for a Licensing Act application for an extra 20,000 people. That would push the number of people attending June’s Seaclose Park event, to be headlined by Foo Fighters, Kasabian and Kings of Leon, [...]
Two year jail sentence for Isle of Wight festival fakes man
THE aftermath of the fake wristbands that hit the Isle of Wight Festival cost organisers tens of thousands of pounds, a court was told. Sophisticated scanning equipment cost more than £40,000 and extra staff and ramped-up police and private security an extra £45,000 in the wake of the 5,000 counterfeit wristbands being produced for the [...]
Isle of Wight festival signs secondary ticketing deal with Viagogo
Isle of Wight has become the latest major festival to sign up Viagogo as their official secondary ticketing and ticket exchange partner. This follows yesterday’s announcement that Festival Republic (previously fiercely opposed to secondary ticketing sites) had signed a historic deal with the same company to be the official platform for their Reading, Leeds and [...]
£1m festival ‘fraudsters’
A gang selling fake entry wristbands for music festivals could have netted more than £1million, a court heard yesterday. The scam was uncovered by police at the 2007 Isle of Wight Festival, which was the worst-hit event that year. Around 5,000 counterfeit wristbands were produced for that event alone, Portsmouth crown court heard yesterday. Sherrell [...]
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