Cancelled Festivals & The Near-Death of Damnation
21 UK festivals have been cancelled or postponed so far this year with up to 100 at risk without Government support, according to the The Association of Independent Festivals. It's grim reading, so h...
11 Apr 20241h 15min
Breaking Bands
Bob Vylan to Din of Celestial Birds, Idles to Amenra... have our festivals helped "break" bands to a larger audience in their scenes and if so, is that important to us or a byproduct of the job? Gav ...
4 Apr 202448min
The Agent Strikes Back
After a month or so of agent bashing, it was only a matter of time before someone stepped up to put us back in our place. And that someone is the brilliant Mr Tom Taaffe, the man behind the bookings ...
28 Mars 20241h 37min
Do Promoters Discuss Band Fees? - Q&A 1
The mailbox is full and the questions keep coming in, so here's an episode dedicated to all your curiosities. Do festival promoters talk to each other about band fees? Have we ever got into a biddin...
28 Mars 202452min
Mogwai, Baby!
Ten years of increased offers, multiple snubs, endless fan demands and with almost all hope lost... Mogwai finally agreed to play the final night of the 10th anniversary of ATG. It had to be part of ...
21 Mars 202437min
The Dark Arts of Booking Bands
Booking bands is the Wild West of music promotion, where cash, gamesmanship, ego and relationships clash in the process of sealing a deal. But it isn't as simple a just working out a fee. There's hot...
14 Mars 20241h 7min
(The Dummies Guide) To Starting Festivals
2,000 Trees, Damnation and ArcTanGent have carved themselves out solid reputations on the UK festival scene but not without almost two decades of graft, good fortune and the odd costly mistake, or twe...
9 Mars 202447min
The Hunt for Headliners
The right headliner can make or break your year, whether the rest of the line-up is excellent or not. But it's not as easy as just throwing heaps of cash at your favourite band to land the booking yo...
7 Mars 202441min
