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the eFestivals app for Android

I'm really pleased that I've succeeded in knocking together a comprehensive and free Android app for eFestivals. You can download it here:- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nrgi.efestivals

Neil

Neil

Rock & Metal Circus Festival 2013

Hi I hope you guys don't mind but I wanted to share with you a new festival that I have just seen. Its called the "Rock & Metal Circus Festival" and is being held on September 20 - 22 2013 in Bromsgrove. Ity looks like a really cool festival for those who like Rock and Metal music. It is based around new and upcoming bands from the UK and will have a couple of really cool known headline bands as well. It seems there is camping and caravan hook up, hot showers, clean loo's and loads more. Lo

ROARROCK

ROARROCK

Sziget Guide 2012

Thank you for viewing this blog. My overall intention is to provide people with first hand accounts of my festival experiences and in doing so give you advise and direction on planning your own tips/holidays. Sziget 2012 The idea of traveling all the way across Europe to Hungary for a music festival is a large task. My first impressions where, "Why not stay local". I live in Belfast, Ireland so the availability of festivals across the Irish sea in Britain are many. People in Belfast are u

kevinmc

kevinmc

not so wet wet wet

My own visits to camping festivals are over for another summer, and despite officially being the wettest summer on record I've not seen that much mud. Last summer I went to eight camping festivals. In every case there was more rain than any sensible festival goer would want, much use of wellies (tho I did get away with properly-waterproof trainers once or twice), and it was often far colder than you'd expect even with a British summer (the official stats confirm last summer as colder than thi

Neil

Neil

pay to say

Payola was a big thing in the past; it probably still goes on - taking money from record companies to feature their products on mainstream radio to help push sales - but it's probably so engrained into the music biz now that it's no longer considered a scandal. From a moral point of view it probably makes bankers look honest. There's a second version of payola, which works within what is known as journalism. It's not actually journalists who do it of course, because writing fiction is not wha

Neil

Neil

Wanted not wanted?

I'd say not, but as I've only viewed it from the M1 what do I know? Is there much to love about Luton? Anyway, the 'Love Luton' event - I hesitate to use the word 'festival' - offers a line-up including The Wanted. And Olly Murs. I can't say it's top of my own list of where to go this summer. Tickets are now £15, and anyone who bought at ticket at the previous higher price will be sent a free extra ticket.

Neil

Neil

Cashless Festivals, RFID electronic registration

Hello All, Hopefully no one minds me using this forum for some unadulterated self promotion !! I just returned to the UK after 4 years working on international festivals. Im looking for employment and was wondering if anyone here was "in the know". My last project was launching RFID and cashless systems of payment at a 7 day music festival of 30,000 and as this hasn't yet been achieved large scale in the UK im hoping that might give me an edge. I was Event manager for this festival and

TomLobbs

TomLobbs

SunDance 2012

I went to a really cool festival a couple of years ago called SunDance. They are having another one this year in October. It is in Turkey. It had a really great vibe with lovely friendly people. It's small which I really liked as you feel completely safe with everyone looking out for each other. It was on a private beach, surrounded by mountains, forest and ancient ruins. We were dancing in the sea. Absolutely stunning! The music is a variety of different genres ranging from electro hou

jennyb2012

jennyb2012

choosing the weather

The weather has been dreadful lately, it's hard to believe that the country is suffering a drought. And last summer's festival weather was dreadful too, the worst I've encountered across a summer since I started running eFestivals back in 2000. With this year's summer festival season just about to start, I'm betting there's lots of festival organisers and festival goers wondering when it'll stop. For some they're now in the two-week range, when the more reputable weather forecasters are pr

Neil

Neil

the incompetence of BT

eFestivals moved premises in mid-January. A move of phone services from one premises to another should be an easy task for any competent business to manage. And yet... - BT took the order wrongly. - BT failed to fulfil the order properly. - BT did the bits they did several days later than they should have. - The engineer did a dreadful job, requiring the wiring in both my house and the exchange to need to be re-done. - it was near-impossible to get them to send that diferent engineer,

Neil

Neil

twice as big, half as good?

The cancellation of some of the more major festivals this year have brought a lot of easy headlines for newspapers and the music press, with a raft of reasons suggested as the cause - the olympics, the recession, poor bookings, expensive tickets, and the like. Those things are of course in the mix and it would be foolish to dismiss the effect they have, but there's much more going on to effect the festivals scene than just those. Back in 2006 I wrote this article titled "Regulation, Retro

Neil

Neil

The Rock Werchter 2012 Advertisement

Anyway. Might as well give this a shot... On offer for a limited time only: -----Your New Best friend!----- Cost: Your spear Rock Werchter ticket! Deal will include the full value you paid for it too- via paypal, online credit card transaction Or Cash In hand. Your are purchasing a one in a lifetime offer for a new best friend for the Rock Werchter Festival 2012. A chilled out, fun, 20year old student with an obsession with music and festivals Your new best friend will do awesome things

cheeseisamazing

cheeseisamazing

Pre-production tinglez - getting ready for the Boom! :-)

GREETINGS beautiful people and welcome to the very first e-festivals blog entry by the Boom Festival! Many of the artists for some of the areas have already been booked while other areas continue to be developed as we go full swing into creative mode. It's a very, very exciting time behind the scenes right now as we anticipate the thousands of "Boomers" that will be converging around the infamous lake here in Portugal - and as we also begin to plan the epic-scale structures of the different s

Boom Festival

Boom Festival

Catering Provisions required for Olympic Staff Accommodation

We are looking for a festival or outdoor caterer to provide catering for Olympic staff Accommodation. The tented village will be just off Roding Valley on the Central line. The Site will be in operation from 25th July - 14th August with accommodation being provided for between 1000 - 3000 poeple. For more information please contact Jessica Bird, Oxygen Event Services at jessica@oxygen-events.com

OxygenEventServices

OxygenEventServices

G4G Festival

Girls Just want to have fun .............. Cindy Lauper hit the nail on the head with this 80's classic and we at G4G want to prove this. Our team are working our little cotton socks off to make the north east's very first all lesbian festival a HUGE success. Held at sedgefield race course, Stockton on tees the G4G festival is going to be packed with live music, comedy and games. from the 10th till the 13th of August us girls are gonna have fun, making new friends, laughing, smiling, sin

Dedonz Pup Cummings

Dedonz Pup Cummings

My top 10 festival performances

People often ask who my favourite band are, or what the best album or best song ever made is, and my mind always goes blank, or I can't come up with a convincing argument for a single candidate. So I started thinking about what the best festival performance I've ever seen is. Now, firstly, I can't remember half of them, so this was from the beginning a fairly futile task, but everyone loves a good list, so this is what I came up with. Let me know what yours are, if you can remember. 10: The S

Dog Burger

Dog Burger

Have your say!

Hey festival lovers, I am currently at university in my 3rd year studying Events Management, writing my dissertation titled “Does service provision for festival goers meet their needs? Context of Reading festival”. For this I need to gather your thoughts and views about music festivals. The questionnaire should only take 5 minutes of your time and your answers will be kept completely anonymous. The link is below! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGJweTR3b1FUalFf

wild1990

wild1990

Festival traders wanted!

Hello! I am currently looking for traders for a new festival in the South West area. We plan to only take on a few, as to not create a conflict of interest between exhibitors and to lessen competition. We are specifically looking for traders specialising in anything from face-painting, hula hoop sales, poi, etc - anything except food or drink. Expected ticket sales are in the region of 800+, the festival dates are 25th - 27th May and there will be a small exhibitor pitch fee. If you know an

Swilk

Swilk

Student needs loads of support from you awesome people

Hey everyone , Hope that you all doing well and not as stressed as me during the last few weeks of dissertations. I need your help and support guy and gals, please can you fill my survey in. its about event design/look/decor/features and how it can enhance your enjoyment at all kinds of events. plus if you like a bit of competition between boy and girls, then at the moment boys are winning !!! heres the link it will only take 3 mins to do http://www.smart-sur...sp?i=46877lxiap Than

EventBee

EventBee

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