St Osyth Summer Sounds has announced its live music offering for 2026. Taking place on 18-19 July at the St Osyth Priory, Clacton-on-Sea, the community festival will host live drum and bass act Brass ...

Shambala Festival has finished its line-up for 2026 with more than 260 new live acts, DJs, workshops and interactive events unveiled. The festival, taking place 27-30 August in Northamptonshire, the ...

The online bank Monzo has analysed UK festivals with a capacity of over 20,000 to calculate which offer the best value for money this summer – with Boomtown Fair coming out on top. The research was ...

Where you throw your empty chip cone or burger box might not be the first thing you think about when out and about at a festival, but it is something that festival organisers must put some serious ...

Refugee Festival Scotland has announced more than 150 events that will take place across the country from 12–21 June, and in line with World Refugee Day on 20 June. Run by Scottish Refugee Council, ...

Suffolk’s Latitude Festival has added more than 30 acts to its 2026 line-up, including Everything Everything, The Adam Buxton Band, Matt Felix and more. Taking place 23-26 July, the music, arts and ...

Bristol’s St. Paul’s Carnival, which has been running since 1968, is set to be scaled back for 2026 due to what organisers say is due to public safety concerns and “an unacceptable level of ...

Wiltshire’s Shindig Festival is set to go ahead as planned says organisers, despite an application to its premises licence being submitted to the Wiltshire Council. The application to review Shindig’s ...

There’s no shortage of opinions to be found on the Ye (FKA Kanye West) at Wireless Festival furore. After all, comments have come from public figures and Prime Ministers alike on the decision to bring ...

Industry bodies and representatives from across the live events industry have shared their collective disappointment toward the Labour government for not including a definitive bill to combat ...

Extreme weather has often caused problems for festivals. Waiting in a downpour as a thunderstorm circles above, only for the next act to get cancelled, is something I’m sure a lot of fans at UK ...

An online survey has been launched by the Events Industry Forum (EIF), publishers of the Purple Guide, to assess whether there is support from the industry to establish a Primary Authority agreement.