Just over 25 years ago, the Danish festival Roskilde suffered a tragedy that would be unimaginable if it didn’t happen in real-time. Pearl Jam took to the stage. The crowd surged, people became ...

Sustainability Not for profit A Greener Future (formerly A Greener Festival) have released release insight into festival carbon footprints. Key findings revealed audience travel contributed on average ...

Festival Insights and the UK Festival Awards are proud to release the UK Festival Market Report 2017, an in-depth examination of consumer demographics, preferences and behaviour based on research ...

John Drury is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. His research focus is crowds and collective behaviour. He has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, most of ...

After closing doors on its “record breaking edition” from 22-25 October 2025, Amsterdam Dance Event has announced it will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2026 from 21 – 25, October. The conference, ...

Summer sees the UK’s festival season in full swing. Whether it’s music, art, or other cultural events, crowds gather in large numbers, creating vibrant and exciting environments. As festival ...

Environmental charity onboard:earth has launched a Green Travel Toolkit for Events in Wales which aims at educate event organisers in measuring and reducing their carbon footprint. onboard:earth’ says ...

The UK Government has changed the criteria for artists applying for its Music Export Growth Scheme (MEGS). The grant scheme offers between £5,000 – £50,000 to UK-registered independent music companies ...

Health and wellbeing researcher, Innerbody, has released its updated 2023 Drug Safety at Music Festivals study, revealing what it describes as alarming trends and health risks. Harm prevention ...

Nick Hucker is CEO of Preoday, a role he has fulfilled for over a year after initially joining the company as Head of Business Development in September 2017. Prior to joining Preoday, Nick was ...

Rhythm + Waves is set to make its debut in 2026 on 27-28 June in the south Portugal region of Algarve. Taking place over two days and across three stages, the first edition of Rhythm + Waves will ...

Vision for Sustainable Events and Julie’s Bicycle are running a second national program supporting local authorities to introduce environmental assessment of events using the groundbreaking Green ...