The BM Park Live summer event series, including Junction 2 and Paradise In The City, are among the latest major events to become entirely meat free. Promoted by electronic music event specialist AMAAD ...

Former US President Barack Obama is to take to the stage for arena shows in London and Dublin, promoted by Kilimanjaro Live. The 44th President of the United States is to be the subject of an ‘in ...

The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has called for an investigation into Live Nation from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. The trade body said it recently provided evidence for a ...

Organisers of Belgian music festival Tomorrowland have outlined plans to stage an ‘immersive’ show in Shanghai. Tomorrowland said its The Magic of Tomorrowland event marks the start of a long-term ...

Tickets For Good (TFG) has announced the launch of a Belgian business arm, and a new funding round of £3m. Following launches in the UK, US and The Netherlands, TFG has expanded its reach in Europe, ...

Parklife Festival returned to Manchester’s Heaton Park last week with new infrastructure and increased staging capacity to support expanded production requirements. To meet the demands of festival ...

Coldplay’s long-running Music Of The Spheres World Tour was the highest earning tour globally during the first half of the year, while the overall market has seen a mixed bag of results. Pollstar’s ...

Access All Areas has welcomed a new journalist to its content team. Primarily focused on news but also developing features and filmed content, Max Steventon should be pitched news and feature ideas ...

Hip-hop festival Rolling Loud is expanding to India with the festival to be held in Mumbai later this year. The Indian edition of Rolling Loud is being launched in partnership with District by Zomato, ...

After 18 years as operations director at Manchester’s 10,000-capacity nightclub The Warehouse Project and 15 years working on Live Nation’s Parklife Festival (cap. 80,000) in the city, Kim O’Brien has ...

Oak View Group (OVG) has hired Simon Hanna as senior vice president of operations. Hanna, who joins from Freemans Event Partners where he was COO since 2023, has more that 15 years of strategic ...

The driving force behind some of the UK’s biggest and most successful festivals including Latitude, Reading & Leeds, Wireless and Wilderness, Festival Republic managing director Melvin Benn is the ...