Live Nation’s chief operating office John Probyn will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 UK Festival Awards next week.

The honour, decided by the Festival Awards board, crowns a momentous year for the world-renowned production boss, which has seen him direct the largest series of live music events ever staged by a single company in the UK in one summer, in the face of some heavy resistance from the weather.

Probyn not only saw this year’s Download Festival ...