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This week’s Insights includes an interview with The Vinyl Festival, plus stories from Hope & Glory, Boomtown, TEAL, Firefly and more.
As always be sure to check out the bottom of the newsletter for an updated ETEP chart and our favourite festival stories from around the World Wide Web. |
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An Interview with The Vinyl Festival
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The first edition of The Vinyl Festival will occur from September 23 – 24 at London’s most talked about new venue, The Printworks. Launched by the relatively new hobbyist magazine, Long Live Vinyl, the festival will treat aficionados of the format to a couple days of DJ sets, Q&A sessions, a crate-digging fair, a vinyl evaluation area, all manner of food & drink, and more.
Insights spoke with Sarah Lindsay, Long Live Vinyl’s head of events, about how the festival will make the most of its industrial surroundings, what the reception to the festival concept has been like so far, and more.
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UK: New Liverpool based festival Hope & Glory will donate all the profits from its debut edition’s ticket sales to the victims and affected families of May 22’s terror attack at Manchester Arena. |
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UK: Boomtown, the 60,000-capacity Hampshire based festival, has sold out in record time. Set to take place from August 10 – 13, the preternaturally immersive boutique festival will once again play host to an eclectic mix of 500 musical acts across 30 stages and 10 high-concept districts. |
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UK: TEAL Patents, the UK based supplier of portable hand basins and sinks, has put out advice to festival vendors about the potential for the spread of illnesses stemming from their own and festival-goers’ hygiene related oversights. |
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PORTUGAL: The BPM Festival: Portugal has revealed the first acts on the line-up of the festival brand’s European debut, set to take place from September 14 – 17. |
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UK: Now in its third year, Parklife’s Community Impact Taskforce will be operational again during its imminent 2017 edition. Designed to reduce the impact of the festival by working with local residents and community groups, information regarding the Community Impact Taskforce is available via the Parklife website, and a leaflet including relevant information has already been distributed to residents. |
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USA: Intellitix has appointed Carlo Chiarello as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Chiarello joins Intellitix with decades of leadership experience in global high-growth companies. |
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CANADA: BreakOut West has launched a brand new website and mobile app for the event’s 15th edition, set to take place in Edmonton from September 13 – 17. |
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USA: Firefly Music Festival, the east coast’s largest music and camping festival, has announced that it will work with payments and point of sale company, Square, and will be using its newest contactless and chip reader to bring Firefly Cashless to its attendees. |
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