UK festival bosses have reflected on the 2019 season after a summer of highs and lows for the sector.
Glastonbury and The Great Escape’s Martin Elbourne, Isle Of Wight ...
The Association Of Independent Festivals (AIF) has blasted the Government's "derisory" response to the DCMS select committee's report into live music.
The DCMS report made a series of recommendations, ...
The Association Of Independent Festivals (AIF) has elected three new board members at its 2019 AGM.
Rewind Festival’s Katt Lingard, Kevin Moore at Vision Nine (Boardmasters and NASS) and ...
Association Of Independent Festivals (AIF) chief Paul Reed has looked back on the trade body's first 10 years ahead of next week's Festival Congress.
The fifth annual Congress, which ...
Tramlines festival director Sarah Nulty is to be posthumously honoured with the Outstanding Contribution Award at this year's Independent Festival Awards.
Nulty (pictured), who helped launch Tramlines in ...
Live Nation now controls over a quarter of UK festivals over 5,000 capacity, according to an ownership map published by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF).
The global promoting giant's ...
Organisers of more than 60 independent festival across the UK have committed to banning the use of plastic straws on-site this season.
The move is a first step in a ...
Live Nation’s proposed acquisition of the Isle of Wight Festival is already under investigation by the Competition & Markets Authority. But that hasn’t stopped the Association of Independent Festivals from ...
The UK live music business is coming to terms with last week’s horrific terrorist attack at Manchester Arena, which left 22 dead and over 100 others injured.
A suicide bomber ...
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