The WOMAD festival (cap. 40,000) has announced a new location in Wiltshire for its 2026 run, along with a planned hiatus in 2025 following its 42nd successful year and over 300 events held worldwide.

Belgium-based Creaplan Group has acquired Whitespace Group, the UK leader in premium modular exhibition stand design and build, following a shareholder re-structuring earlier this year. Whitespace ...

US-based Oak View Group (OVG), venue developer and manager, has announced the launch of a new full suite of venue services in Europe. Nearly six months after the eventual opening of Co-op Live in ...

American Express presents BST Hyde Park has announced Tony winner and Oscar nominated actor, Hugh Jackman as its new headliner for the 6 July 2025 event. Amex Cardmember’s presale began on 1 November, ...

Oxfordshire’s Truck Festival has been named the best-value UK music festival for 2024, closely followed by Victorious and Kendal Calling, according to new research collated by health & safety and ...

The second annual Montreux Jazz Festival Miami will take place 28 February to 2 March, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Jon Batiste, co-owner and ambassador of the inaugural US event, brought it to The Hangar ...

Live entertainment agency AEG Europe is expanding its FAME FOREST environmental initiative to Berlin following success in Hamburg. The project will plant a tree for every artist performing at the Uber ...

Berlin-based Deutsche Entertainment Aktiengesellschaft (DEAG) has entered the Italian live promoting market by acquiring live entertainment organiser MC² Live S.p.A. The acquisition enlarges an ...

Four months after Providence Equity Partners sold Superstruct Entertainment to investment giant KKR for a reported €1.3 billion (£1.1bn), private equity firm CVC, which is said to have more than ...

The Formula 1 Exhibition, the fastest-selling exhibition at ExceL London (Immerse LDN), has announced an extension of its residency to 2 March 2025 due to high public demand. Following the hugely ...

Events industry umbrella organisation UKEVENTS has announced that the UK’s events industry generated £61.65 billion in 2023, a figure almost back to pre-pandemic levels of 2019. Leisure and outdoor ...

The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) and Musicians Union (MU) have published an open letter to the Government and live music industry describing a cost of touring crisis. FAC and MU are calling on ...