festival republic
festival republic is the uk’s largest festival and event promoter, the team proudly organises festivals such as reading and leeds, latitude, electric picnic, berlin festival and lollapalooza berlin .
festival republic together with prs foundation are proud to announce the second - round of successful candidates for the pioneering rebalance programme .
festival republic have announced the launch of rebalance, a new initiative that will address the gender imbalance in the music industry .
festival republic is proud to partner with actionaid for the ‘not this girl’ campaign to keep girls safe from sexual exploitation and abuse .
here at festival republic we work with a number of charities across our festivals, raising money and awareness for organisations close to our hearts .
melvin benn is managing director of festival republic. latitude festival runs from 12 - 15 july at henham park, suffolk – see urltoken for details and follow it on twitter @ latitudefest
it was a statement of who i was and what festival republic was. festivals have been my life but i wanted to rewrite the rulebook about what they could be – i wanted to reflect a little more of my own cultural life and what the festival republic team could create .
festival republic appears to be thriving too. figures lodged with the uk' s companies house show festival republic ltd made a pre - tax profit of €3. 86m in 2015, on revenue of £41. 1m. it paid out a dividend of £5m to shareholders gaiety investments and live nation .
philosophical film festival (original title: филозофски филмски фестивал) is organised by the non - profit organization philosophical society of macedonia registered in republic of macedonia .
as chief executive officer at festival republic he oversees latitude and the simultaneous reading and leeds festivals in the uk - the oldest popular music events in the world .
festival republic held an advantage when booking headline names, since it is majority - owned by live nation, the concert giant, which signed exclusive deals with jay - z and u2. festival republic will retain its stake in the operational company that runs glastonbury, in a
long term arrangement that genuinely secures the future of the festival ,
a spokesman said .
festival republic made an offer around 2009, buying aiken and part of reynold' s stake. it took full control in 2013, putting benn at the helm .
a rock music festival in the former soviet republic of georgia headlined by the swedish band tiamat was disrupted by ultraconservative orthodox christian activists saturday evening (june 4) .
festival republic endeavours to deliver festivals and events with the least amount of environmental impact as possible. working through every aspect of the festival, we develop systems across key areas such as energy, waste, water, transport and purchasing .
as head of festival republic, veteran promoter melvin benn is the man behind some of the u. k. ’s biggest and most popular music festivals, including the award - winning latitude and dual - site reading and leeds festival .
telephone: 020 7009 3001 [ open mon - fri 10 - 6pm ] email: info @ urltoken address: festival republic, 2nd floor, regent arcade house, 19 - 25 argyll street, london, w1f 7ts registered office: festival republic, 2nd floor, regent arcade house, 19 - 25 argyll street, london, w1f 7ts. company no. 02948536 .
festival republic was the first company to introduce a charity donation at the guest list of our music festivals. these contributions raise well over £250, 000 a year and over £1, 000, 000 has been collected so far. festival republic has worked with charities such as the kenyan orphan project healthstart programme, actionaid, oxfam, trees for cities and attitude is everything .
at festival republic, we’re committed to making your festival experience one of the best weekends of your life. that’s why we work continuously to get some of the biggest names in music and do all we can to ensure your safety at our events .
the 10 - year relationship between melvin benn, the licence holder at glastonbury through his festival republic company, and the eavis family, has come to an end, both parties announced in a statement .
fource is always looking for new ideas, opportunities and partners to help us bring the best of the best to the czech republic and beyond .
the mean fiddler name was sold to british promoter the mama group (
we got a ridiculous offer for it… ironically they were later bought by live nation
) and the business was renamed festival republic .
a glastonbury spokesman said the end of the festival republic link would not mean a return to a smaller gathering. a new operations director was needed to manage the 40, 000 contractors now employed to stage the event .
as a company, festival republic has the best team ethic that you could hope to have. and ultimately, we just hope that our style of promoting will convince people that if we love something, they should too .
melvin benn is ceo of festival republic, the company that owns electric picnic and many other music festivals. he' s had one of the most interesting careers possible, from running anti - apartheid concerts in the 1970s to fighting the uk government' s attempt to crush raves. benn spoke to sarah mccabe about the economics of festivals, why big acts deserve big pay cheques and why electric picnic is a jewel in festival republic' s crown
we hope festival republic’s focus on sustainable practices will impact the industry through our suppliers, contractors and membership of industry wide coalition powerful thinking. we have signed the festival vision: 2025 pledge to work together with other festivals to understand, and aim to reduce, our carbon emissions following cop21 .
festival republic also produces several live music events such as marlay park concerts, royal hospital kilmainham summer nights in dublin, bbc radio 2 live events in hyde park london as well as promoting further gigs in london and the uk .
industry experts will be invited by festival republic and prs foundation to nominate artists and engineers for the programme. a selection panel of musicians, journalists, booking agents, label bosses and more will then shortlist and select the successful acts .
festival republic md melvin benn said in a press release: “something needs to be done about gender equality in the music industry. it’s a wider issue that involves us (the live industry) but the solution doesn’t rest only with us .
at the end of each year, the artists selected will be given slots at a festival republic or live nation festival. the organisation are defining female as anyone who identifies as a woman, while for bands to be eligible they must include a woman or women who are “fundamental to writing and producing duties. ”
mr benn and mr eavis have now agreed
the time is right for both parties to go their separate ways
. mr benn said other festival republic events, including latitude, reading / leeds and an expanding european operation were now his priorities .
festival republic also encompasses lollapolooza in berlin and electric picnic, which takes place at stradbally hall in laois this september and is the biggest event on the irish music calendar. over the course of his career he has built some of london' s most iconic music venues and operated the license for the glastonbury festival in somerset .
in the 1990s the battleground between the two irishmen extended into festival promotions. mean fiddler took on reading and leeds festival as well as an interest in glastonbury, while mr desmond' s business mcd developed the v festival .
following the paris agreement at cop21, we’ve joined the growing movement of festival organisers committed to making festivals more environmentally sustainable by signing the festival vision: 2025 pledge .
the trailers are randomly screened with festival films, and thus involve festival audiences in an unique game in which the various versions of the trailer are always a surprise .
our methods of best practice is also represented in the plastic free festival guide 2018 .
in 1988 reading festival went bankrupt and that’s when myself and my partner bought it .
prof david fitzpatrick of trinity college dublin said he believed that most of “the so - called republicans” involved in the struggle for irish freedom during the revolutionary period 1919 to 1923 did not actually want an irish republic .
the leeds - based project will run for three years and will provide one week’s studio recording to a uk - based female musician, solo artist or female - featuring band each month from 2018 through 2020. studio and engineering costs will be paid for by festival republic, along with accommodation and travel .
“if festival promoters were better business people, they wouldn’t be in festivals, ” says cooper .
eamon de valera was never a republican, and his support and that of other irish nationalist leaders for an irish republic during the war of independence was a simplified slogan adopted to gather international support, according to a leading irish historian .
according to prof fitzpatrick, de valera and the nationalist leadership supported the idea of an irish republic because they thought it was “a marketable proposal” which they believed could work as a means of achieving some form of self determination for ireland .
q: thank you for bringing us such a wonderful festival, we are looking forward to it .
which brings together festivals that wish to take action to create a sustainable future. it is a shared vision for a sustainable festival industry with 75 festivals signing up (as of march 2017). 53 festivals have taken the festival vision 2025 pledge aiming to achieve a 50% reduction in festival - related annual
community festival is a one day celebration of the best in new music at london' s finsbury park .
this guy has a very cool job... and knows how music festival economics became very big business
i am no longer operationally involved, but i am still close with michael and the festival .
we were absolutely at the top end of a fantastic economic cycle and people had money in their pockets, people who wanted to devour more and more culture. more importantly, it was a time when my business partner vince power and i had just sold 51% of our company mean fiddler to live nation and our new company festival republic was being born .
but i must say i feel incredibly proud of where we are, particularly of electric picnic - it is the jewel in festival republic' s crown. it is a real joy, i can' t tell you how much, to be a part of it - and i am only a small part of it. so many people contribute .
1. films may be submitted electronically via filmfreeway only. 3. the submission deadline is 15th december 2017. 4. there is no entry fee. 5. the person submitting the film gives their permission to screen the film during the festival and during other events promoting the festival arranged by the organizer with no screening fees. 6. the festival reserves the right to invite a film which was not submitted to the festival .
the karlovy vary international film festival is the largest film festival in the czech republic and the most prestigious such festival in central and eastern europe. it is one of the oldest a - list film festivals (i. e. , non - specialized festivals with a competition for feature - length fiction films), a category it shares with the festivals in cannes, berlin, venice, san sebastian, moscow, montreal, shanghai, and tokyo. among filmmakers, buyers, distributors, sales agents, and journalists, kviff is considered the most important event in all of central and eastern europe .
lollapalooza berlin joins lollapalooza chile, lollapalooza brazil and lollapalooza argentina as the fourth international location and first european edition of the well - established festival. the festival brings incredible music, food and art to the heart of berlin .
reading festival through the years, all the way back to 1989. how many have you spent with us ?
leeds festival through the years, all the way back to 1999. how many have you spent with us ?
the first year of one of the world’s oldest film festivals was in 1946 in mariánské lázně. the festival moved to karlovy vary in 1947, and the following year the festival became competitive awarding its first crystal globe. in 1956, the international federation of film producers associations (fiapf) officially designated karlovy vary a category a festival .
responding to the question as to what the ordinary ira volunteer envisaged by an irish republic, sunday times journalist and commentator kevin myers said that he believed that a good indication of what irish volunteers were fighting for could be gleaned from their actions in the gpo in 1916 .
latitude is the pioneering - and award - winning - music and arts festival, set within the magical woodland grounds of henham park. with its unique line up, it has fast become the cultural highlight of the summer festival season .
this guy has a very cool job... and knows how music festival economics became very big business - urltoken
the tiamat frontman also expressed his surprise at the lengths to which the radical priests went to get the festival canceled .
melvin benn, director of the uk promoters festival republic (reading and leeds, the canceled big chill), described it as
gambling in its crudest form ,
since a promoter usually promises to deliver the goods without knowing if people will show. the bigger companies may have even more incentive lately to pull the plug than smaller promoters, who can tolerate smaller margins and a slow build .
the republic has often been the venue for performances of the salzburg easter festival. in 2011 isabel karajan performed there igor strawinsky’s histoire du soldat together with members of the berliner philharmoniker and in 2015 she presented her scenic collage mrs death meets mr shostakovich. in 2018 the children’s concert by kapelle for kids will take place there and also the chamber opera satyricon by bruno maderna, directed by georg schmiedleitner .
founded in 1946 as the second film festival in europe, today the karlovy vary festival is one of the most important cultural events in central europe. it is characterized by an inimitable audience experience and has long maintained its reputation as an informal gathering for fans of cinema. every year, the festival presents a crystal globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema to a leading personality of world cinema, whereby the festival recognizes actors and filmmakers for their inspiring work in the field of international cinema .
all recent editions of the karlovy vary iff have been characterized by a distinctive visual design, including an original trailer, with a new one shot each year by leading domestic directors. over the years, the festival trailer has become a minor work of art in its own right, characterizing each individual year and capturing the festival’s unique atmosphere. eventually, however, the festival decided to seek out a new trailer format for properly presenting the longstanding brand that is the karlovy vary international film festival .
the 8th edition of the philosophical film festival will take place from 12 - 20 april 2018 in skopje, r. macedonia .
the karlovy vary festival spent 40 years operating under political pressures in socialist czechoslovakia. in 1994, a new team headed by well - known czech actor jiří bartoška and leading film journalist eva zaoralová took over the festival’s organization and decided to reshape the stagnating festival into an film forum deserving of international attention. in just a few years, the new programming and organizational approach implemented by bartoška and zaoralová helped the festival regain its previous level of prestige and win back the interest of film professionals and the general public .
“so here in the heartland of republican ireland you have a flag on one side denoting the republic and the other side depicting a sacred heart, and over the next 50 years, which side of the flag prevailed in the conduct of governance in ireland... we can see that quite clearly. ”
for bands further down the rungs, an appearance at a big festival like coachella or bonnaroo carries validation and helps attract the attention of other festival promoters. beyond that, there' s the opportunity to reach an audience who might never otherwise hear your band .
the legendary download festival takes over the spiritual home of rock, donington park, to stage the ultimate line up of legends and the best bands in rock and metal music today. 2018 saw avenged sevenfold, guns n' roses and ozzy osbourne headline the festival .
submitting a film to the philosophical film festival is equivalent to the acceptance of the conditions set out in the above rules & terms .
edita badasyan, a fan who witnessed the events, posted on facebook that the festival was immediately shut down after the power cut .
in 2018 greenpeace volunteers are operating bottle deposit return points at download, community, wireless, latitude, rize, reading and leeds festival .
so you’ve splashed out all that money. how do you get it back? it’s not just from the ordinary punters who are paying no more than the ticket price and bringing their own tent. as with football, they might be the bedrock of the festival, but they also provide the atmosphere that turns a festival into an experience for those with more money to spend. among them are a group that hardened festivalgoers despair of, but who bring in a load more money – the “glampers”. “ [ we ] probably sell more boutique camping per head than any other festival, ” says bradley thompson, festival director of festival no 6. “it’s around 15% of people. ”
not having glastonbury is always a negative, not a positive. it' s a unique and enormously wonderful festival. the press inevitably spend a huge amount of time obsessing about it and there' s always a general festival fever built up by glastonbury because it' s glastonbury .
edlund said :
we landed in tbilisi, the capital of georgia, just today, quite late, or actually in the morning. yesterday was the first day of a two - day festival that we were headlining. and that' s the biggest rock festival in georgia .
the police reportedly prevented the protesters from entering the main staging area of the festival and convinced the priests to leave the premises without further incident .
we encourage festival goers to limit the amount of things they bring to the festival in the first instance. on arrival, all campers receive a camper’s waste kit containing a clear bag for recycling and a biodegradable bag for compostables. for general waste we advise them to use their shopping bags .
latitude, set in the heart of suffolk, features the best of music, comedy, theatre, literature, dance, cabaret, poetry, film and fashion. voted ‘line up of the year’ at the 2013 uk festival awards, the festival has a current capacity of 35, 000 .
every year, the festival presents some 200 films from around the world, and regularly hosts famous and important filmmakers. the karlovy vary festival is intended for both film professionals and the general public, and offers visitors a carefully designed programme, excellent facilities and a broad range of other services .
as jon drape, managing director of outdoor event production company ground control, puts it: “most festival sites are, literally, green fields. there are no utilities there. there is very stringent legislation that festival organisers need to meet to stage a festival. a lot of the expenditure is around very unsexy items – sanitary provision, showers, toilets, waste management, power, site lighting. all those utilities need to be brought in. ”
the group wrote the show must go on report (2015) – a festival industry response to the 2015 global climate change talks in paris and gave a picture of the carbon footprint of the festival industry as a whole for the first time and developed a roadmap to show how we can take action .
a sustainability manager is employed to work with the festival republic team, contractors and suppliers to focus on sustainability issues and develop innovative solutions. we work closely to reduce our impact, and implement systems onsite which the audience can participate in, providing the opportunity for encouraging positive behaviour change. having the audience participate in our green initiatives may also lead to similar actions in their everyday lives. in fact, much of our audience already acts sustainably at home, and expects the same when attending our festivals and events .
the wait is finally over! we’re delighted to share the first round of acts that will be joining us for three days of festival fun in september .
benn stepped out of electric picnic when he did the live nation deal. but the festival found its way back to him in the years that followed .
each year, the karlovy vary iff presents some 200 films from all over the world. many of the films are shown only at the festival, while others make it into czech or foreign distribution, onto television, or into other festivals thanks in part to their screening in karlovy vary. except for films shown as part of retrospectives, all the presented works were made during the preceding year and are shown for the first time ever in the czech republic – many of them as world, international, or european premieres .
glastonbury is about to enter a new era after michael eavis parted company with the festival promotion company that helped ensure the event' s long - term future .
wanted: a manager to run britain' s biggest music festival. must have jay - z on speed - dial and be willing to get their wellies dirty .
unanyants added that the local orthodox parish in the tbilisi suburb of zahesi demanded an end to the concert because they claimed that the festival was desecrating a nearby cemetery .
for participation of 8, 4 or 3 days you need to pay a participation fee, which includes for the days of participation all the morning activities (ateliers, discovery ateliers, special programmes), daily open singing, and free admission to all festival concerts, as well as the songbook and the guide with the festival programme .
philosophical film festival / филозофски филмски фестивал is a unique film festival that lives on the crossroads between philosophy and film and is held annually in r. macedonia. on one side, the festival tries to promote the idea of film as a medium which can provoke philosophical thought and illustrate philosophical ideas. on the other, it aims to trigger aesthetical analysis’ and investigations into film language as a form sui generis and empower young filmmakers and film workers to reflect on key concepts, questions and ideas in order to translate them into the visual language of cinema. it is a pioneering festival of the kind in macedonia and the region, and one of few in the world connecting film and philosophy .
and so, in 2008, the festival came up with a new and unique approach to its festival trailers, consisting of cinematic micro - stories featuring the laureates of the festival’s main awards – the crystal globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema and the festival president’s award. these trailers are made by the leading internationally - respected advertising directors ivan zachariáš and martin krejčí, who are currently among the top filmmakers in commercial filmmaking. their first series of trailers featured actors danny devito and harvey keitel and directors miloš forman and věra chytilová. over the subsequent years, this trailer collection grew to include shorts starring andy garcia, jude law, helen mirren, john malkovich, jiří menzel, otakar vávra, and miroslav ondříček .
the festival’s main objective is to promote the cinematic arts, to foster international exchange, and to help promote the films screened there. every year, the festival presents some 200 new films from around the world, of which around 70 are shown as world or european premieres. many of the films shown at the festival are still looking for an international sales agent. the main goal of the industry section is to connect film professionals, provide producers and directors with an opportunity to present their films, and to provide them with a space for meeting buyers, distributors, and representatives from other film festivals. the festival is visited by a total of nearly 850 film professionals from 60 countries throughout the world, with more coming every year .
yeah it is, its very much that. latitude is one of my passions; i have a number of festivals that i love. reading, leeds, download, v - festival…
following in the footsteps of chile, brazil, argentina and the original u. s. edition in chicago’s grant park, lollapalooza descends on berlin for the european edition of the groundbreaking festival .
mr eavis, the dairy farmer who owns the somerset site, brought in mr benn in 2002 to help manage the festival, which was struggling to keep out gatecrashers as its popularity soared .
pharrell williams at isle of wight festival. three percent of ticket sales go to prs, which collects the money owed to songwriters for performances of their songs. photograph: lnp / rex shutterstock
the fee also applies to conductors, composers, pianists, musicians, bus drivers, and all other accompanying people as long as they wish to use any services provided by the festival (accommodation, meals, free access to the venues of the festival which are not open to the public, etc .) and thus will need a festival badge. children under 11 (born after 05. 08. 2007) will not pay a participation fee if they do not participate in an atelier or special projects (e). they have to pay for their accommodation and meals .
the fee depends on the package you choose (full festival, half festival or anniversary package), your country of residence and your age, and you can get discounts if you are a direct or indirect member of the european choral association – europa cantat (eca - ec). check urltoken - > members - > join us to get more information regarding conditions for direct membership !
electric picnic is a truly unique irish festival, offering a diverse range of entertainment with performances from the hottest bands, brightest minds and best comedians. takes place at stradbally hall, county laois, ireland .
mr benn said :
i am committed to ensuring as smooth a handover as possible to the new team in pilton and to enjoying glastonbury for many years to come as a festival - goer myself .
among them are south florida' s langerado, canada' s pemberton b. c. , catalpa music festival, new jersey' s all points west, and denver' s mile high fest, the latter two created by goldenvoice / aeg live. all but langerado failed to survive past their second year, a testament to the difficulty in getting a new festival off the ground, even for established operators .
recycling incentives: all those who bring a full bag of recycling to one of our recycle points will receive in exchange the chance to win prizes such as a pair of tickets to next year’s festival and merchandise .
reading festival in 1972, i was just 16 years old. for me, it was about the music, but it was also about learning to be in an environment with other people who share the same passions .
yesterday, orthodox monks attacked and closed down the festival, mainly because of us, tiamat, because we had inverted crosses in our old logo type and i have written' hail satan' on my chest .
we have to reflect that. but costs are rising. around £200 is what a decent festival will cost and it' s difficult to go over that amount, but there will be a moment when we have to. we don' t market latitude as a holiday – there are some that do but i' ve chosen not to. i like to call it a festival and if people use it as their holiday that' s fine .
sponsorship is key to any festival, even if it tries to keep things low - key - as goldenvoice does at coachella, more than its sister country - themed fest, stagecoach, the following weekend. it can be the difference between losing and making money, especially in the beginning, and it helps salve the wounds when the weather turns foul. (rain is an outdoor festival promoter' s greatest enemy and single biggest wild card. )
prof fitzpatrick made his comments in response to a question from a member of the public during a panel discussion on the war of independence chaired by irish times news editor mark hennessy at the inaugural west cork history festival in skibbereen .
hugh phillimore, festival director of cornbury, suggests that he would charge a trader between £300 and £400 to have a stall at the festival. “you have to be careful, ” he cautions, “that you don’t have too many as then none of them will do any business. ” get it right, though – enough stalls to cater for everyone without massive queues, offering good food and drink – and your food can become an attraction in itself .
the electricity suddenly went out and the power company‪ energopro georgia says they don’t have any information about the cut. p. s. new information. the festival has been shut down ,
badasyan wrote in her post .
the first one i organised was a free festival in battersea park with people from the tuc. they were always overtly political events and 20, 000 people would turn up to have a great day out and sell a bit of beer .
1. feature films and short films will be considered for the official competition. 2. successful submissions will be announced on 10th february 2018. 3. the jury appointed by the festival' s organizers will award the ‘golden owl’ jury award for best feature film and best short film on pff 2018. submitted films are assessed in terms of artistic quality and philosophical relevance and the jury’s decision is absolute and final. the audience of the festival will award the ‘golden owl’ audience awards. 4. the awarded films will be shown one more time on two film academies in the country with which the festival is collaborating (film academy, university
goce delchev
- stip and fiofa film institute - ohrid film academy) .
it' s considered to be a middle class festival and in truth, the audience is very comfortable to be described as that, but they have a passion about it. you only have to look at our facebook group to see that .
to be able to go to into a music environment or a festival, you can share the enjoyment with others. at the time there were only two festivals, which were glastonbury and reading, back then people weren’t really interested in festivals .
explosive festival growth in europe has sprouted 2, 500 - 3, 000 festivals yearly and 670 in england alone, a 73 percent increase since 2003. that' s a lot more than here and cause for suggestions of over - saturation .
the ultimate summer celebration in the heart of london, wireless festival combines the biggest headliners and the hottest fashion to create a party no one ever wants to end. this year we welcome j. cole, stormzy and dj khaled as your headliners .
bounce magazine caught up with melvin benn at the latitude press day at henham park, to discuss the challenges, rewards and potential pitfalls that come with working in the festival industry, as well as the key to succeeding in today’s hyper - competitive market .
in 1988, reading festival went bankrupt. its owners decided to offload it and offered it to all of the uk' s major music promoters. nobody wanted it - except for vince power, a friend of benn' s from tramore in waterford .
the rock - ’n’ - roll circus that is electric picnic has established itself as a truly unique festival. with great music, art, theatre, comedy, pantomime, food and holistic health, it’s the most delightfully diverse line up on the emerald isle .
mr benn' s company, then called mean fiddler, took a 20 per cent stake in glastonbury and brought a new professionalism to the operation, improving security and helping gain a series of licence renewals, which have secured the festival' s future until 2017 .
you can also register after 31. 12. 2017, but there will be a €20 extra fee per person, there will be no guarantee for being accepted in one of the ateliers of your choice and accommodation may no longer be available through the festival partner .
jinjer, one of the groups that were scheduled to play at the festival, wrote on their facebook page that their performance was canceled
due to an attack by a group of religious fanatics .
they added :
tbilisi jam! fest was disrupted because a nearby monastery didn' t like it. the priests brought an angry crowd of extremist supporters and attacked the festival area! !! it is sad to realize that in georgia, a country that appears to be civilized, religion has more power than the law .
artists' fees are the single biggest cost for any festival. the prices commanded by the biggest names are closely guarded - but headliners at major music festivals are thought to receive high six - figure sums. in 2008 it was reported that coachella paid $ 2m for prince to play .
there' s an increased trend of multi - faceted, social events and people are more willing than ever to make sure they don' t miss out on experiential, destination weekends with friends ,
writes joe reynolds, ceo of red frog events, the festival' s founder .
there are only so many big - name acts to anchor a big festival, and they earn good money. while the lowest - rung act at coachella made $ 15, 000 in 2010, headliners can command seven figures. it' s turned into a nice living for some acts .
we run a three - bin system across all areas at all our festivals. this means we separate waste into mixed recycling, compostables and general waste. we work very closely with our waste contractor for each show to develop the best solution for each event and make sure we minimise the amount of waste going to landfill. we are pleased to say that in 2017 download, latitude, v festival, electric picnic proms in the park and bbc radio 2 festival in a day were all zero waste to landfill events. we also introduce a number of recycling initiatives to actively involve our contractors and audiences such as the below .
and the bigger the audience, the greater those costs are. “at the isle of wight festival, between security and police, it costs £1m, ” says john giddings, the event’s head. he has to employ around 5, 000 people to ensure he can lay on all the necessary amenities and a greenfield site isn’t imediately fit for a festival just because you’ve made it fine for campers and live entertainment. giddings says he spent £250, 000 building roads into the site’s car park. “parking cars on grass, ” he says with the weary voice of experience, “is not the best idea in the world. ”
the first thing i did was change the pricing model. we brought in a loyalty factor - if you could show you had attended three times before, you could get a ticket for €149 and so on. we have kept that element and it has really contributed to the festival' s growth .
taking place over the august bank holiday within the grounds of the glorious bramham park, leeds festival plays hosts to thousands of fans who come to see an unforgettable line up of the world' s best music. kendrick lamar, panic! at the disco, fall out boy and kings of leon are your 2018 headliners .
also interesting to me is the fact that people were buying olympics tickets with no idea what sport they would be seeing – they were buying into an event experience and there' s no question a large number of those people are also festival goers. so it has taken a lot of money out of festivals, yes .
vince power was the founder of mean fiddler, a company which started life in 1981 as an eponymous venue in harlesdon in london. its stage would later host names like van morrison, johnny cash, paul mccartney, the pogues and christy moore. power and benn decided to team up and mean fiddler took over reading festival .
and for the arts, it' s great – it' s incredible that you can see the royal opera house and sadler' s wells at a music festival. it' s not outreach as such, but it certainly opens up wider audiences. our waterfront stage is unofficially known as the sadler' s wells stage now .
he clearly adores the event .
the exciting thing about electric picnic is that it has a uniqueness you don' t find anywhere else. all of my mostly uk - based staff consider it their favourite festival, they all want to come to it. this is a cliche but it' s because of the craic .
that miniature city (or, in the case of glastonbury, reading and leeds, isle of wight or t in the park, not - so - miniature - city) doesn’t pay for and build itself, either. the promoter has to pay to hire the site, put up the fencing, build the stage, lay on water, electricity and waste management, sort out security – and more. “for a 10, 000 - capacity festival, your power will cost you between £60, 000 and £100, 000, ” says gareth cooper, co - founder of festival no 6. “we would spend up to £30, 000 taking the waste away. ”
it' s a booming business, even for newcomers. last year firefly music festival premiered at a racetrack in dover, delaware, drawing more than 30, 000 patrons daily, making in the neighborhood of $ 9 million in ticket sales alone. it' s estimated to have injected upwards of $ 12 million into the local economy .
you’ve got your glampers and your sponsors. now you need to work out how to get money from the caterers. food and drink is a key way for festivals to recoup money, either by selling it themselves or bringing in external companies and charging them rent (or sometimes running on a profit split). graeme merifield, director of wychwood, estimates that ticket sales only go to pay for 60% of running his festival. “the other 40% is made up from pitch fees from traders and caterers, sponsorship money and our bar profits as we run our own bars, ” he says. “if we didn’t have any of those other incomes, then we wouldn’t be able to run a festival. ”
the legendary reading festival has for decades been the place to be to see the biggest and best acts in music. from nirvana to mumford & sons, the list of headliners to grace the main stage is second to none. kendrick lamar, panic! at the disco, fall out boy and kings of leon are set to entertain the crowds this year .
one of the obvious reasons music festivals have taken off is a lot of people think they can make a lot of money with them, and it' s not that easy ,
says grayson currin, who co - founded the hopscotch festival in chapel hill, north carolina, now entering its fourth year .
the margins are pretty small .
the growth of dance music and outdoor festivals mirrors trends in europe with longer traditions. england has several historic outdoor events, such as reading and leads and glastonbury festivals. they have been in existence since the early' 60s and' 70s, respectively. the glastonbury festival draws more than 175, 000 a day, (though it took 2012 off) .
i don' t think the climate to lose money to build a festival is out there anymore, because most of the companies that are behind these festivals are beholden to something ,
says lyman .
they' re beholden to a live nation, to their stockholders, and it' s hard to justify going out there and losing a million bucks .
co - funded by the unesco international fund for the promotion of culture (ifpc), this project trains amateur filmmakers in filmmaking and film appreciation. it gives them the opportunity to create, produce, edit and present their original works in public spaces in barranquilla (colombia) as well as at the 17th edition of the cine a la calle international short film festival .
the economics are always difficult, in part because if there isn' t an established festival, you have an awful lot of competition for that talent ,
says bongiovanni .
there are certain weekends, especially over the summer, where there are so many major festivals going on in europe, and it' s amazing there' s enough talent to spread around through them .
but the first festival i ever went to was reading – i was 16 and came down with a friend from hull to see the faces. we didn' t have a tent and wellies. we did what quite a lot of young people still do at reading – turned up in the clothes we had on. at latitude people bring everything and the kitchen sink, they really come well prepared .
i' ll be honest with you, it' s tough. the team want to spend more and more money making it better and better and i have to be the one who says no. i feel like a grumpy dad, but everyone knows that any festival has to work within certain financial constraints and so we all go to the nth degree to get the best deals with contractors, suppliers and staff .
even after you have made that investment, it can all disappear. this year’s t in the park festival, running this weekend, has had to move to a new site at strathallan castle, having been forced out of its 18 - year home in balado owing to issues caused by an oil pipeline running under the site. “we are the fifth biggest town in scotland when t in the park is on, with all the issues that come with running a major town, ” says festival director geoff ellis, who estimates the running costs over the years at £1m. now he has to start from scratch on a new site and get it up to the standard it took nearly two decades to reach at its old location. and even then there is no guarantee he will get planning permission for t beyond the initial council - approved three years .
when you consider the $ 254 million coachella brought to the desert region around indio (and $ 90 million to the city itself), you can see why a city would do whatever it can to help. apparently that only holds until a festival' s established itself, at which point you grab for more. (see, indio proposed, then ultimately withdrew, a $ 4 - $ 6 million ticket tax. )
inclement conditions can also affect “walk - up” sales (people buying a one - day pass on the day itself). phillimore said that, in 2013, cornbury sold 1, 200 day tickets, but the year before, because of rain, it only sold 200 – equivalent to a shortfall of around £80, 000. not every festival can sell out in advance, so walk - ups can mean the difference between disaster and success .
take one of the world' s most successful, california' s coachella. fifteen years ago, coachella was a sparsely attended party in the desert of 1, 500 people. in 2015 forbes estimated that the festival, which is now spread out over two weekends, grossed $ 84m with 198, 000 in attendance. a general admission ticket set concert - goers back $ 375 while access to the vip area cost an extra $ 524 .
you text. you don' t call, you don' t write notes. you don' t pop up at your friends' house. you skype. we' re not touching each other ,
says the rapper murs, who founded the paid dues festival in los angeles .
technology has separated us so much, it' s natural for us to have this desire to come together and [ festivals ] really cater to that communal nature .
of course, sponsorships aren' t sitting on a shelf like bottles of mountain dew. the good ones typically are reserved for established festivals, and sometimes not even then. while there was a moment when warner brothers considered buying paid dues from murs, he hasn' t had any luck finding a top - of - the - bill partner for arguably the finest hip - hop festival in the country. this while securing backing from shoe companies for his solo tours .
coachella founder paul tollet came up the way most festival promoters do - in bars and clubs. he began by booking his older brother' s perry' s band the targets. while attending cal - poly pomona, tollet hooked up with goldenvoice founder gary tovar, who funded his promotion company with proceeds from pot dealing. tovar eventually took a rap and went to jail, signing over his control in the company to tollet and his partner rick van santen in' 91 .
every day was a highlight. what we were doing was creating a culture in a way - a culture of festivals. only a really small amount of people were going to festivals in the 1970s and 1980s. we were the first to put two stages up which played simultaneously at an event, the first to add comedy, the first to present a major irish music festival in the heart of london, to find a way around the attempts to outlaw illegal raves.
festival republic is a uk music promoter . it was founded as mean fiddler group in 1982 by irish born chairman john vincent power , as a venue-management and music promotion group . its move into festivals started when they took control of the reading festival from harold pendleton at the end of the 1980s . after the group was taken over by hamsard ltd in 2005 the focus became more concentrated on festivals , and in 2007 the venues along with the mean fiddler name were sold on , with the remaining company being renamed festival republic . 
festival republic is a uk music promoter. it was founded as mean fiddler group in 1982 by irish born chairman john vincent power, as a venue-management and music promotion group. its move into festivals started when they took control of the reading festival from harold pendleton at the end of the 1980s. after the group was taken over by hamsard ltd in 2005 the focus became more concentrated on festivals, and in 2007 the venues along with the mean fiddler name were sold on, with the remaining company being renamed festival republic.
festival republic is a uk music promoter. it was founded as mean fiddler group in 1982 by irish born chairman john vincent power, as a venue-management and music promotion group. its move into festivals started when they took control of the reading festival from harold pendleton at the end of the 1980s. after the group was taken over by hamsard ltd in 2005 the focus became more concentrated on festivals, and in 2007 the venues along with the mean fiddler name were sold on, with the remaining company being renamed festival republic.