As soon as When We Were Young was announced back in January, would be attendees across social media dubbed it “emo fyre-fest”. To be fair, there was a myriad of reasons naysayers had doubts: the festival would be taking place in the middle of the desert off the Las Vegas strip, and the jam-packed post-punk […]
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Event welfare consultant Penny Mellor was presented with the female lifetime achievement award at this year’s UK Events Summit. A longstanding member of the International Live Music Conference (ILMC) team, Mellor has racked up 50 years’ worth of experience in the sector. Fifty years ago, she became a field worker for a recently founded charity, […]
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Glasgow’s TRNSMT Festival has announced its return for 2023, with Pulp, Sam Fender and The 1975 set to headline – see the full line-up below and buy tickets here. The festival will return to Glasgow Green from July 7-9 next year, with the likes of Kasabian, George Ezra, Royal Blood, Aitch and more also on […]
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Steve Jenner’s UK-based Web3 specialist MetaFests is partnering with US-based tech platform Vatom to launch blockchain-powered toolkit Digital Lanyard for festivals. Digital Landyard enables festival organisers and their brand partners to engage audiences year-round and build their own Web3 experiences via the Vatom platform. Vatom’s platform has previously been used to support global events including […]
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Pulp, Paolo Nutini and George Ezra have been announced as the headliners of Latitude Festival 2023. The Henham Park, Suffolk festival will return in 2023 from July 20-23, having been headlined this year by Lewis Capaldi, Foals and Snow Patrol. Latitude has confirmed today (October 28) that Pulp, Nutini and Ezra will top their bill […]
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Pulp have confirmed their long-rumoured 2023 reunion by announcing a huge UK and Ireland tour for next summer – see the dates below and buy tickets here. Over the summer, frontman Jarvis Cocker confirmed that the band would be hitting the road next year for their first gigs together since 2012. Pulp drummer Nick Banks […]
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Arctic Monkeys have been announced as the first headliners of Open’er Festival 2023. The Sheffield four-piece will top the bill at the Polish festival next year, which will be held at Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport in Gdynia from June 28-July 1, 2023. Open’er have confirmed this morning (October 28) that Arctic Monkeys will perform at their festival […]
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Sound City Liverpool has announced its first wave of acts for its 2023 edition, with Maisie Peters topping the bill. The event returns April 28-30, 2023, with gigs held at various venues across the north west city and the Sound City+ Conference taking place on day one. Peters is set to headline, with other performances […]
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Slipknot have revealed the lineup for Knotfest Australia 2023, featuring Megadeth and Parkway Drive, and ticketing details for the festival’s debut Down Under. The inaugural Australian edition of the festival – curated and headlined by the Des Moines metal veterans themselves – will also feature Trivium, Northlane, Amon Amarth, In Flames, Knocked Loose, The Story […]
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Live Nation has detailed a brand-new alternative music festival based in the US, called Adjacent. Blink-182 and Paramore are set to headline the two-day event, slated for 27 & 28 May 2023 (Memorial Day Weekend). The all-ages festival will be held on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey, adjacent to the boardwalk. Turnstile, Japanese […]
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