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This week’s Insights features an interview with Lowlands Festival, plus we have stories from Field Day, Sónar, Gigantic, ADE, Symphotech, Reading & Leeds and more.
As always, be sure to check out the bottom of the newsletter for an updated ETEP chart and articles from around The World Wide Web. |
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An Interview with Lowlands |
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Lowlands Festival – or A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise if you’re not into the whole brevity thing – is one of The Netherlands’ most successful events, attracting around 55,000 visitors to its annual three-day festivities. Appealing to both Renaissance men and women, Lowlands encompasses music, cinema, street theatre, cabaret, stand-up, ballet, and literature.
At this year’s Eurosonic Nooderslag, Insights spoke with Eric Eerdenburg – the Director of Lowlands and Down The Rabbit Hole – about the former festival’s programming approach, its embrace of the scientific and political, and the challenges he personally foresees for the live events industry.
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UK: National ticketing agency Gigantic has pledged its support to help raise awareness of mental health related conditions in musicians by teaming up with the Roy Stone Foundation. The charity was set up in memory of Nottingham musician Roy Foster, known as ‘Roy Stone’ in the music circuit, who sadly lost his life through mental health issues, and was also a good friend to Gigantic founder Mark Gasson. |
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UK: Having already announced a move to the larger Clarence Dock for 2017, Sound City has now revealed that it will host four days of festivities to mark its 10th birthday. |
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UK: Field Day has revealed an impressive list of additional acts for its 2017 edition, set to take place in East London’s Victoria Park on June 3. Included in the announcement are hip-hop super duo Run the Jewels, Clams Casino, Machinedrum, Thee Oh Sees, Abra and more. |
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Sónar Barcelona has continued to prove its preternatural curatorial sensibilities with a raft of fantastic new additions to its 2017 program, including Arca & Jesse Kanda, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, DJ Shadow, Little Dragon, Evian Christ, Clark, Jon Hopkins (DJ), and more. |
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Reading & Leeds Festival has added Kasabian as the second headliner for this year’s twin events, respectively taking place from 25 – 27 August at Richfield Avenue, Reading, and Bramham Park, Leeds. |
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Marking the company’s ongoing growth, Symphotech has welcomed four event safety and fire safety professionals as the company looks forward to a busy year. |
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Following two sold-out years, the intimate forest festival Lost Village will return in August for three days of immersive escapism and an acclaimed music line-up headlined by Moderat and De La Soul. |
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The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) – one of the world’s leading festivals for electronic music – will head to Austin, Texas this March for SXSW, one of the busiest and largest showcase events in the world. ADE will present three showcases there, one with Dutch festival Appelsap and two as a joint effort between Dekmantel and Red Light Radio. |
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FROM AROUND THE WEB
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French Festival Attendance Reaches Five-Year High (via IQ Magazine)
T In The Park replacement TRNSMT announced (via CMU)
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