UK trade bodies including BPI, AIF and LIVE have made an urgent call for a government-backed Covid insurance scheme in order to save this year’s summer for live music.
While ...
The UK’s largest independent festival, Boomtown, has been forced to cancel, citing the absence of Covid-specific government backed insurance.
While it has prepared a roadmap for the return of ...
Music Week is monitoring the impact of the Covid-19 spread around the globe on the biz.
The outbreak has already led to the cancellation of Glastonbury and more recently TRNSMT ...
The team behind the acclaimed Boomtown festival have launched a new 3,500-capacity multi-room events venue, Area 404.
The club opened across two weekends with a Halloween-themed event earlier this month ...
After the high-profile Fyre and Hope & Glory calamities unfairly cast a cloud over the festival sector in 2017; this year’s summer has been largely controversy-free.
With Glastonbury taking a ...
There will be at least one notable omission from next year’s festival calendar: for the first time in six years, Glastonbury will not take place.
The granddaddy of them all ...
Organisers of a 24-hour website “blackout” by UK festivals to promote increased awareness of sexual assault have told Music Week the campaign sends a “very strong message” ahead of this ...
BoomTown Winter Gathering will no longer take place after a car park fire and death of an 18-year-old woman marred this month’s BoomTown Fair.
The woman was pronounced dead at ...
