Among the UK's biggest festival lineups this year only 21% of performers are female, according to research by insurance specialist Protectivity.
It found onl...
A hub of creative talent and home to an impressive and expanding event infrastructure, Manchester has been hit hard by the pandemic but the virus has done littl...
LN Gaiety-owned Manchester festival Parklife sold out in only 78 minutes after pre-registered tickets went on sale today, 24 March, at 10am.
The line-up for ...
On the back of the prime minister’s reopening roadmap, and continued support in the budget, leading events operators tell Access how they are working to overcom...
In the week since prime minister Boris Johnson indicated events without social distancing could potentially run from 21 June, there has been frenzied activity w...
Ahead of a Parliamentary debate on 8 February about the post-Brexit EU touring visa issues that have caused uproar in the live music industry, Sir Elton John ha...
A group of festival operators, industry bodies and MPs will speak at a Parliamentary briefing that has been organised with the aim of gaining cross-party suppor...
DCMS Committee chair Julian Knight MP (pictured), who is leading the inquiry into the future of UK music festivals, said the cancellation of Glastonbury (cap. 1...
The 20,000-capacity Mighty Hoopla festival has become the latest major festival to be rescheduled to later this year.
Run by East Creative, the annual one-da...
Leading figures in the UK festival industry have repeatedly informed MPs today, 5 January, that without a Government-backed insurance scheme few, if any, festiv...