In the new issue of Music Week, we speak to Melvin Benn (Festival Republic, MD) and Vanessa Reed (PRS Foundation, CEO) about ReBalance, an innovative Leeds-based, three-year programme ...
In 2017, the spectre of gender imbalance, inequality and sexism in workforces around the UK has been laid bare. The exposition of the gender pay gap at the BBC was ...
Festival Republic and PRS Foundation have unveiled details of ReBalance, a pioneering Leeds-based, three year programme which will provide one week’s studio recording time to a core female band, female ...
The BRIT Trust, the charitable arm of the BPI which distributes funds raised through the BRIT Awards, has pledged its support for Music Support – a new charity aimed at ...
Let us start, not in the present, but in that most wild and hedonistic of decades: the 1980s. The place? Nottingham. The location? Its famous venue Rock City. The person? ...
Download Festival has today (April 7) announced major improvement plans for the 2017 festival. Included in this are new drainage systems, alternative traffic routes, improved disabled access, a 400 ...
Festival Republic has announced Lucy Wood as Latitude’s new music talent buyer, replacing Natasha Haddad.
Haddad, who has worked on the Suffolk festival since 2013, is stepping down from a ...
Reading & Leeds festivals organiser Melvin Benn has backed Foals and Disclosure as “natural headliners” for the Festival Republic events.
A Music Week report last year revealed just five acts ...
