With its roots set firmly in festivals, the past two decades have seen event production agency LS Events branch out way beyond live music to become a flourishing multi-service operation involved in ...

In the wake of the final Secret Garden Party, the event’s founder Freddie Fellowes provides a passionate perspective on why the future needs independent festivals, and what is behind the demise of so ...

Liverpool has become the world’s first ‘Accelerator City’ for climate action, under UN Climate Change’s Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action programme. To mark the achievement, a string of ...

Having previously stated its intention to roll out its single-show City Sessions streaming programme internationally, Amazon Music has outlined details of a string of European shows. Launched in the ...

Event crew provider Alpha Crew has launched in the US with a precence in New York marking its first venture outside of Europe. With basis in the UK, France and Spain, Alpha Crew provides event crew, ...

Kilimanjaro Live has bolstered its promoting team with the appointment of former TEG Live Europe head of venue programming Lottie Bradshaw as a new promoter. Working alongside Kilimanjaro Live ...

The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) said it will launch a free business support programme next month that will provide guidance and training for multi-venue festival operators. Set up with ...

Scottish festival Doune the Rabbit Hole, which ran with a 15,000-capacity until its organiser went into administration in 2022, is to be relaunched in 2025 as Back Doune the Rabbit Hole. The revived ...

Music-inspired endurance event Music Mudder 2024, organised by Wasserman Music, has raised more than £75,000 for music therapy charity Nordoff and Robbins, with ASM Global (pictured) and AEG among the ...

ASM Global has promoted Gemma Vaughan, with immediate effect, to acting general manager of AO Arena in Manchester. She has taken over from Jen Mitchell, who is leaving the company. Vaughan joined ASM ...

Coldplay is to donate 10% of the band’s proceeds from eight UK stadium shows next year to the Music Venue Trust (MVT), with the aim of supporting grassroots venues. The band has announced it will play ...

Former NEC Group MD of arenas Guy Dunstan is to join Manchester’s Co-op Live as its new general manager and senior vice president from 21 October. Dunstan, who has spent 13 years with the National ...