James, The Wombats, Sugababes, Nothing But Thieves and Sophie Ellis-Bextor join the line-up – many more still to be released Multi-award winning Victorious Festival (26/27/28 August 2022) – the UK’s biggest metropolitan festival – has today announced its first wave of artists for next summer. Headlining Friday night is a band that needs no introduction […]
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Venues in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will only be permitted to admit fans who are vaccinated against Covid-19 when full-capacity shows return, the country’s ministry of health has said. The policy, which comes into force this Sunday (6 June), will apply to all live events, including cultural, sports and arts activities, in the Gulf […]
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Laneway Festival, the much-loved Australasian touring festival, has joined the TEG family. Laneway, in full St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, was founded in 2005 as a Melbourne street party and has grown into a respected festival of domestic and international music, with events in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore (currently Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Fremantle and […]
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Five thousand people packed into Paris’s Accor Arena with no social distancing on Saturday night for Ambition Live Again – the long-awaited pilot event with which the French live industry hopes to persuade the government to allow it to reopen as soon as possible. Headlined by popular French pop-rock band Indochine, the concert, organised by […]
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Finnish metal band Nightwish were joined by more than 150,000 fans from 108 countries for their recent virtual concert experience, An Evening With Nightwish in a Virtual World, which streamed on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 May. Six months in the making, the show – a co-production of promoter Fullsteam Agency, VR studio Zoan and the […]
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Chinese post-punk band Re-Tros made history on Saturday 22 May with the biggest rock show in China since the beginning of 2020. The sold-out concert, promoted by Live Nation, saw Re-Tros (Rebuilding the Rights of Statues) performing to 10,000 people at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. The production centred on a unique triangular stage that […]
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Barclaycard Arena Hamburg is welcoming spectators for the first time in over a year, for a series of tests that aim to find out if and how major events can take place safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. The tests have been approved by the Hamburg Ministry of the Interior and Sport and will take place […]
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After effectively ruling out the 2021 festival season, the governments in Denmark and Norway are now in the process of organising large-scale test events to determine how big gatherings can take place during the pandemic. According to Denmark’s live association, Dansk Live, such experiments were proposed in December 2020 and also in March 2021 by […]
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Exit Festival plans to offer doses of the coronavirus vaccine to international guests who attend the event this summer. The Serbian festival, which will be held in Novi Sad from 8–11 July, is set to go ahead as normal as the country charges towards a full reopening on 21 June, thanks to Serbia’s “successful mass […]
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Primavera Sound Festival has announced the programme for 2022, confirming previously reported rumours of a new expanded format. Next year’s 20th-anniversary edition will take place across two weekends, 2–4 June and 9–11 June, with more than 400 artists and 150 shows. The festival will primarily be held at the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona but […]
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