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The<br />
Festival<br />
<strong>Buyer’s</strong><br />
2016<br />
Guide<br />
Where Buyers meet Suppliers<br />
CDM<br />
The first<br />
12 months<br />
OK Computer<br />
Where will the next wave of<br />
technology take festivals?<br />
Safe<br />
From<br />
Harm<br />
Don’t<br />
have<br />
a cow<br />
What impact will ISIL’s<br />
latest attacks have<br />
on public/private<br />
events in 2016?<br />
How festival<br />
food control<br />
can benefit the<br />
environment<br />
Plus lots more!
Event Production Solutions<br />
Covering Every Flooring Option for Your Event<br />
EPS Europe Works with Cuffe<br />
& Taylor on Neil Diamond<br />
Blackpool Concert<br />
Fast becoming one of the UK’s foremost<br />
premium outdoor event organisers, Cuffe<br />
& Taylor once again called on the services<br />
of EPS Europe for Neil Diamond’s live<br />
concert at Blackpool’s Bloomfield Road<br />
stadium in summer 2015.<br />
The event was the second major outdoor concert to be staged at the seaside venue, following Cuffe & Taylor’s<br />
huge success in bringing Rod Stewart to the stadium in summer 2014.<br />
With the concert taking place just a few weeks before the start of the new football season, EPS Europe was<br />
tasked with protecting the playing surface using its specialist Temp-A-Path product.<br />
Installed by hand in just eight hours, the lightweight Temp-A-Path product featured small holes that allowed<br />
air and water to penetrate into the ground below, helping to maintain the standard of the natural turf beneath it.<br />
15,000 temporary chairs were then placed on top of the surface.<br />
EPS Europe Completes Second<br />
Successful Download Festival<br />
EPS Europe successfully completed its<br />
second Download Festival in summer<br />
2015. The rock music event takes place<br />
at Donington Park in Nottinghamshire,<br />
and EPS Europe once again installed its<br />
specialist Temp-A-Path product in order<br />
to create unhindered access to, from,<br />
and around public toilet areas.<br />
Following excellent feedback from customers at the 2014 event, over 4,500m 2 of the plastic product was laid<br />
at the site for the 2015 festival. The Temp-A-Path is used to protect the grass around the toilets as well as<br />
provide clear and safe access regardless of the weather.<br />
In addition to the public toilet areas, Temp-A-Path was also installed in the VIP bar areas and backstage<br />
access routes to ensure that the weather would have no impact on the hospitality experience.<br />
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Welcome to the<br />
Festival <strong>Buyer’s</strong> Guide.<br />
Designed around mobile devices, as well as desktop and laptop<br />
computers, the Festival <strong>Buyer’s</strong> Guide is a qualified, quality focus on<br />
best practice and innovation. Through features, case studies and<br />
interviews across the organiser/supply chain, it’s a readable route<br />
around contemporary industry patterns.<br />
Articles in this issue include a look at the event policing puzzle<br />
post-Paris 2015, the CDM Regs revision (nearly) 12 months on,<br />
the growth in winter events, the technology for festivals’ market<br />
and much more.<br />
Designed for the 2016 pace of life, the Festival <strong>Buyer’s</strong> Guide, in<br />
common with the modern events world, has to be easy to navigate<br />
and interact with. And it is, the most dynamic, up-to-date media<br />
resource for the industry.<br />
If you would like to be featured in or contribute to future editions of the Festival<br />
<strong>Buyer’s</strong> Guide, please get in touch by email, phone, or via our website.<br />
W: www.eventindustrynews.co.uk E: editor@eventindustrynews.co.uk Head Office: 01777 802111<br />
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“Budgets and priorities means the police can’t be present at events to the extent they used to be,<br />
but sites are safely run, and policed with a small p, by security teams like AP,” Andrew Stevens,<br />
Director of Strategic Development at the company, says.<br />
“The UK festival model is untested since Paris, but it’s built on fantastic communication and liaison.<br />
If there’s heightened risk anywhere, we all know about it.<br />
“The confidence of security/stewards at an event is paramount,” Stevens adds. “If we feel a<br />
genuine need for more staff or more resources, we can’t be shy about asking for it and organisers,<br />
in my experience, are always ready to listen.”<br />
Safe from harm<br />
The horrors of the Paris attacks last year will put the security model<br />
at live events under closer scrutiny than ever in season 2016.<br />
Event Industry News looks beyond the barricades.<br />
Whether this country remains a part of the European Union or not, experts believe threats and<br />
disruption to major events will be the ‘new normal’, across the continent. And there’s a bigger than<br />
ever onus on festival organisers to make their audiences feel safe.<br />
According to the National Police Chiefs Counsel (NPCC), pre-austerity, ‘The Police have no general<br />
duty to preserve public safety at any public event, except where there are imminent or likely threats<br />
to life’. So it costs organisers to have even the thinnest blue line. However, Operation Gothic, an<br />
intelligence-sharing initiative developed by the police and focused on festivals and events, has<br />
been a significant step towards rebalancing that equation since it was introduced in 2013.<br />
Gothic is a means to manage and maintain a structured contacts network for event facilitators,<br />
including police, partners and industry, through:<br />
• gathering, developing, actioning and analysing information and intelligence for sharing with each<br />
event host and key partners<br />
• activating early warning mechanisms in respect of high-risk emerging issues<br />
• producing regular bulletins and risk profiles (i.e. artist, fan base etc) for use by police, venues,<br />
security and event organisers.<br />
While counter terrorism guidance was already in the public domain, the police fielded a weight of<br />
enquiries from event organisers post-Paris. So the system and the tactics were revised, inviting<br />
organisers and venue managers to engagement sessions across the country in May, one telling<br />
example.<br />
“The decision to review was made very quickly after the attacks,” a spokesperson tells Event<br />
Industry News. “[Gothic] is not perfect yet. It’s a new, voluntary operation, managed by just a few<br />
enthusiastic officers, but it’s a channel for us to share information with event organisers. They get<br />
[the news] we get. It’s sanitised, for obvious reasons, but hopefully useful. If any specific information<br />
emerges, we would pass that on. Gothic is not about us plugging holes in [an organiser’s] plans.”<br />
Any real threat to the public, however, following all due consultation and consideration, would stop<br />
an event in its tracks.<br />
The force then is strong, but resolutely background, in the field of live events. So, post-Bataclan<br />
particularly, how much should organisers be doing/can they afford to be doing, to reassure<br />
ticketbuyers they are in safe(r) hands across the fenceline, proven in the face of real adversity?<br />
The police service will not advocate any direct alternatives to its own presence on site, but they do<br />
exist. Seventy five per cent of TSG Policing’s deployments are made up of experienced ex-cops,<br />
for example. Could that be a solution for season 2016 events?<br />
“All agencies need to understand their limitations and play to their strengths,” David Boswell,<br />
Founder/Managing Director of TSG, tells this magazine. “Event security companies provide the<br />
requisite resources to manage day to day security/crowd management requirements, controlling<br />
ingress and egress, for instance, manning check points, searching bags and conducting general<br />
observations.” The capacity to react to high-level incidents falls outside the remit and expectations<br />
of conventional security. That, Boswell insists, is where TSG fits in, with its well-trained, fully<br />
equipped officers, married to expert command and control teams.<br />
“Operation Gothic is a brilliant off-site intelligence sharing platform, so event organisers and<br />
security firms can better prepare, but neither can provide trained professionals with the experience,<br />
and the ability, to deal with higher level incidents,” Boswell says. “In my opinion, event organisers<br />
should ensure they have a specialist resource in place, be it the police, TSG, or both, to manage<br />
specific threats, risks and occurrences.”<br />
Cost is always a key driver for event organisers and crisis doesn’t spawn new cash streams. So,<br />
if you’re convinced by the pitch, how do you pay for team TSG without a brutal, Osborne-style<br />
budget review?<br />
“There will always be additional costs for additional services,” Boswell says. “What TSG can<br />
guarantee, is where SPS is currently paid for, we will generate significant savings. And, where TSG<br />
is brought in as an addition to the overall event safety plan, we keep costs to a minimum.”<br />
The event season proper starts at Cheltenham Festival, mid-March; then the gates begin to open<br />
to thousands of events, big and small, mainstream and boutique, across the country. Unaware<br />
perhaps of all the measures in place behind the scenes, festivalgoers in 2016, convinced by the<br />
lineup and managing the price, are sure to pay closer attention to the security effort they can see.<br />
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“Dynamic solutions for<br />
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Marquee & temporary<br />
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‘Why Danco do festivals<br />
well, how to make<br />
marquees look the part’<br />
Where?<br />
Danco Plc are an established<br />
marquee hire company that<br />
embody professionalism and we<br />
are proud to supply a variety of<br />
festivals across the length and<br />
breadth of the UK. Over the last<br />
few years you will have seen<br />
our structures at the likes of<br />
Glastonbury, Wireless Festival,<br />
Wilderness, Lovebox and<br />
Towersey Festival to name a few.<br />
What?<br />
Danco marquees are used for<br />
many purposes; most notably<br />
one of our 25m clear span<br />
frames, complete with bespoke<br />
clear gables, is used to house<br />
The Beat Hotel at Glastonbury.<br />
Our smaller frames, such as the<br />
6m or 9m clear span work well<br />
for long runs of bar or catering<br />
traders and will often have<br />
themed facades designed around<br />
them which make them very<br />
adaptable. The Danco black-out<br />
coloured festival covers (pictured<br />
opposite) also remain a popular<br />
alternative to the traditional<br />
white marquees.<br />
How?<br />
As temporary structures become<br />
bigger and more creative to<br />
support the festival organiser’s<br />
need to broaden the attendee’s<br />
experience, suppliers have to<br />
keep up with the demand and<br />
technological advances. Danco<br />
have recently purchased a new<br />
floor jacking system that allows<br />
us to provide perfectly level<br />
and increasingly stable flooring<br />
solutions on often undulating<br />
grass sites.<br />
We were very honoured to be<br />
mentioned at the ASAO annual<br />
conference as a shining example<br />
of how to adhere to current health<br />
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and apart from re-wording some<br />
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regulations, we have been able to<br />
continue working as efficiently<br />
as we already were.<br />
Unquestionably, the festival<br />
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popular ideology.<br />
Contact Danco on: T 01454 252 218 E info@danco.co.uk
New order for Henley Festival<br />
Thirty-four years in, Henley Festival takes the biggest step in its perennial<br />
evolution this summer, putting more venues in the mix, partnering with<br />
Ronnie Scott’s, increasing capacity by a third and breaking beyond its<br />
physical boundaries.<br />
To the ticketholders at least, Henley Festival has long<br />
been about much more than increasingly profile acts<br />
on the Floating Stage, Elton John, Elvis Costello and<br />
Shirley Bassey among them this year. It’s comedy,<br />
dance, street entertainers, fireworks, fine dining, and<br />
that’s just the middle of the menu.<br />
For 2016, the Thameside event, which follows Henley<br />
Regatta and inherits much of its infrastructure, will<br />
have a bigger footprint and a busier programme.<br />
New spaces allow for a comedy stage proper, The<br />
Salon Comedy Club, which comes bearing Al Murray,<br />
Reginald D Hunter, Nina Conti and other profile names,<br />
while a Big Top platform, ‘The Top’, for up and coming<br />
artists, stretches the event outside the Regatta’s<br />
Stewards’ Enclosure for the first time.<br />
“Being able to programme a wider variety of work<br />
enables us to grow our audience and I hope that we<br />
will reach a more diverse range of people as a result,”<br />
Chief Executive, Charlotte Geeves, says. “We have<br />
an excellent relationship with Wokingham district<br />
council and work closely with the team there, and the<br />
locals, which makes any [changes] to our licence an<br />
easier process. I do hope that we are now seen as a<br />
permanent fixture by the Henley community and that,<br />
in the most part, they attend.”<br />
Site for sore eyes<br />
In 2013, the Festival was caught between a<br />
river and a hard place, ramping up its budget to<br />
attract the likes of The Beach Boys and Madness,<br />
but falling far short financially. A move to Henley<br />
Business School, a cheaper site three miles up the<br />
road, was mooted, before an invigorating deal was<br />
floated by the Royal Regatta Committee and the<br />
Festival settled back into its natural berth, in the<br />
wake of the rowers.<br />
“We use all of the Regatta’s [Arena] structures, although we<br />
do change the functionality of quite a few of them,” Geeves says.<br />
The transition period between the two events pointedly wasn’t a part of the 2013 deal; it remains just<br />
66 hours, from 8:30pm on Sunday to Festival doors on Wednesday at 6:00pm.<br />
“We’re free to be venturesome, this year a particularly prime example,” Stewart Collins, Henley<br />
Festival’s Artistic Director for the last 25 years, tells Event Industry News, “but it’s an uphill task, as ever<br />
it was, to get everything done on time. Our fantastic team just makes it happen.<br />
“We have extended the site by half an acre this year and capacity will be up significantly as a result,”<br />
Collins explains. “We always had a mix of performance, but the extra venues will give jazz, comedy<br />
and new music their own spaces, making it easier for the audience to know where everything is and<br />
there’s so much going on, beyond the main stage. It will be very easy simply to spend a whole day in<br />
the Comedy Club.”<br />
The partnership with Ronnie Scott’s will see the world famous jazz club, satellite-style, in a Henley<br />
Festival temporary structure. The 1930 Spiegel tent, which has a permanent venue feel anyway, will be<br />
rife with rich reds and an onus on replicating the Frith Street club’s famously good sound.<br />
“Ronnie Scott’s is a recognisable brand, the ‘best you can get’ jazz venue and our audience is a<br />
perfect fit,” Collins continues. “It’s a little older than the typical festival crowd. Dining is a very important<br />
element and we will have early evening supper there, then a performance, in keeping with the London<br />
club’s model, the Ronnie Scott’s Story. After the headline concert on the Floating Stage, there will be<br />
a jazz jam and Ronnie Scott’s players are already in touch with bands from the main stage. We’ll have<br />
the finest jazz quintet anyway and they might just be joined by players from Elton John’s band, for<br />
instance.” I guess that’s why they call it ‘The UK’s Most Magical Summer Party’.<br />
Henley Festival 2016 runs from July 6-10.<br />
For more information see: www.henley-festival.co.uk<br />
Suppliers include:<br />
Lighting – Panalux (stages)<br />
Oakwood Events (site)<br />
Power/distribution – SSE<br />
Site maintenance – Henley Contracting<br />
Sound – RG Jones<br />
Staging – ESG<br />
Temporary structures – Arena Group<br />
Trackway - Eve<br />
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The first question this prompts is ‘why don’t they know?’ In some respects, it’s obvious. The very<br />
fact that they are seeking to procure services is that they don’t have the means to deliver those<br />
services themselves. The client therefore needs to bring in an expert within that particular field.<br />
Many event organisers will testify to the fact that once they have engaged a particular service<br />
provider, they often allow that provider to lead the discussion as to what the event requires.<br />
In short, they tap into to that person’s expertise.<br />
So when it comes to the procurement process, why write a complicated tender document if<br />
you don’t fully understand what will need delivering? To put it another way, if your boiler broke<br />
down at home, would you try and research boiler engineering in order to create a written<br />
tender document, or would you simply phone up some specialists and ask them to come and<br />
diagnose the problem? In context, if you know nothing about how to light a main stage at a<br />
festival, why spend the time writing a tender document for lighting companies to fill in?<br />
Inevitably the words ‘local authority’ will creep into this whole discussion. Regardless<br />
of the nature of the service - be it roadworks, playground equipment, or a mobile<br />
stage for an event – if it’s being driven by a local authority then there are certain<br />
boxes that have to be ticked. That said, can the procurement process – even<br />
in local authorities - be changed? When asked the question during the podcast,<br />
Mike Richmond’s answer was simple.<br />
Procurement<br />
with the Event<br />
Industry – are<br />
we complicating a<br />
simple process?<br />
Procurement. The act of obtaining<br />
or buying goods and services. The<br />
process includes preparation and<br />
processing of a demand as well as the<br />
end receipt and approval of payment. It is<br />
also a word that strikes fear into the heart<br />
of many an event professional. Why?<br />
Well, because according to one expert, many<br />
people don’t actually know what they want.<br />
Last year the Talking Events podcast produced by Event Industry News<br />
published an episode featuring Mike Richmond, the well-known director<br />
of Richmond Events Management (REM). In the episode, he talked<br />
candidly about the whole process of procurement and his own experiences<br />
of the process.<br />
“REM has done thousands of tenders over the years”, said Mike. “We’ve<br />
completed them and we’ve set them. The difficulty with events is that it’s often<br />
difficult to say precisely what you want. You sometimes get the feeling that<br />
tender documents are written so [vaguely] that the client doesn’t really know<br />
what they need.”<br />
“I don’t think it can. Tenders are one of two things: very open minded<br />
because they (the client) don’t really know what they want, or very<br />
detailed because they’ve just used the specs from the guy that did<br />
the job before. There’s very little in between.”<br />
Mike also points out that he knows of several companies that<br />
won’t bother filling in tender documents anymore because of<br />
the amount of time it consumes and the fact that they often<br />
don’t get any form of response. This means that if you<br />
choose to issue a complicated, time-consuming tender<br />
document in order to source some toilets, then you<br />
are potentially missing out on the services of a<br />
better supplier.<br />
So, instead of a convoluted procurement<br />
process that could still leave you<br />
without knowing exactly what you<br />
want, why not just keep it<br />
simple? Pick up the phone<br />
to an expert and<br />
speak to them.<br />
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Not all Rigging is the same.<br />
In the event industry, the word Rigging can take on many meanings. Often used<br />
as a noun to describe the equipment and alternatively a verb when explaining<br />
the act of using the equipment itself.<br />
It is all too easy to assume that “all rigging is the same”. This is a totally wrong assumption, and an assumption<br />
that can carry an increased risk if the differences in the type of applications of equipment and the service<br />
conditions in which they are to be used are not fully understood.<br />
Rigging equipment and the act of “rigging” for festivals and other outdoor<br />
events is a case in point where the equipment often becomes a part of a<br />
temporary structure and is affected in different ways to instances when the<br />
same equipment is used in an indoor arena or venue.<br />
At Rigging Services we offer both a “dry hire” and “wet hire” service according<br />
to its clients needs. In both instances though we recognise the risks associated<br />
with the weather, ground conditions, performers, the general public and the<br />
time constraints for load ins and outs plus the duration of the event itself.<br />
Some structures are created for an event with an incredibly short duration and<br />
yet they still warrant our full diligence.<br />
One of our specialist areas of activity is what we<br />
internally refer to as “boutique rigging” in other words,<br />
one offs and non-standard structures. These are<br />
becoming all the more common as promoters and<br />
performers alike try to be different.<br />
To ensure that safety always comes first, any deviation<br />
from a standard system is backed up by structural<br />
calculations and designs approved by our preferred<br />
chartered engineers.<br />
Each individual item of equipment has a unique ID and is serviced, maintained and examined to comply with<br />
the LOLER regulations. With the final rigged system checked, it is not uncommon for a temporary structure to<br />
contains thousands of items which will have been individually deemed fit for purpose.<br />
It would be a mistake to take a less detailed approach to structures which are quite complex.<br />
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OK Computer – where will<br />
the next wave of technology<br />
take festivals?<br />
Serge Grimaux, CEO and Head Pilot<br />
of Intellitix identifies the benefits that its<br />
innovative RFID technology brings to the<br />
evolving nature of festivals and live events.<br />
Serge explains “Last year we almost doubled the number<br />
of events we work with, adding festivals like Snowbombing,<br />
Garorock, Electrobeach, and Hellfest to our clientele. As<br />
predicted, we are already seeing a significant shift in attitudes<br />
towards Cashless Payment, Brand Amplification and Access<br />
Control technology in this industry, reflecting the trends<br />
already present in our daily lives. I expect to see the number<br />
of festivals in Europe implementing our RFID solutions and<br />
embracing a fully Cashless culture increase significantly<br />
in the near future. Intellitix’s system benefits organisers by<br />
increasing on-site revenue, delivering unparalleled audience<br />
insight, and creating key commercial opportunities to connect<br />
brands to their target markets.”<br />
“Access Control: This allows event organisers to secure<br />
ticket gross, eliminate fraud and passbacks and dramatically<br />
cut queues into events. With real-time capacity counts,<br />
organisers can best allocate their staff resources to peak<br />
areas immediately to manage patron flow. Access Control<br />
also provides insightful post-event analysis, enabling<br />
organisers to optimise site planning and entry processes for<br />
future events.<br />
“Cashless Payments: RFID technology enables festivals to<br />
benefit from a Cashless Payment system that is accessible to<br />
100% of the audience – enabling increased on-site spending<br />
of up to 30% more than traditional payment methods.<br />
Customers no longer have to carry around cash or risk<br />
losing their wallets on the dance floor or in mosh pits, adding<br />
convenience and security benefits. There is huge potential<br />
in leveraging the Big Data obtained in our real-time reporting<br />
capabilities to grow future revenue streams, which the live<br />
event industry will see more of this year, stay tuned!<br />
“Brand Amplification: Through the introduction of branded<br />
opportunities on-site, sponsors are able to elevate their brand<br />
experience and generate strong connections with fans and<br />
their social media networks. Brand activation deployments<br />
such as social media ‘check in zones’, gamification, custom<br />
playlists, exclusive content and photo booth stations<br />
encourage patrons to engage with brands in a fun, creative<br />
and meaningful way.”<br />
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In 2016 I Really Need…<br />
With so many products and services now<br />
available, festival organisers can be forgiven<br />
for getting lost in a minefield of websites,<br />
samples and printed information.<br />
The Festival <strong>Buyer’s</strong> Guide decided to highlight<br />
half a dozen services that it thinks could help<br />
make life just that little bit easier.<br />
Ticketsource<br />
Ticketsource provides organisers with a simple to access selfservice<br />
box office. The system allows customers to purchase event<br />
tickets online and access them in a variety of ways, via Apple’s<br />
Passbook app, text message or even a good old fashioned printat-home<br />
ticket. The tickets can be fully branded with your event<br />
details, and you can easily add information, terms & conditions,<br />
and accept donations with gift aid support for registered charities.<br />
General admission and allocated seating options are available,<br />
giving even greater scope to the type of event that could make use<br />
of this well-designed and intuitive system.<br />
Event Wine Solutions<br />
They say the best ideas are the simplest, and this one<br />
is bang in that category. As tastes and knowledge have<br />
developed, consumers have become more and more<br />
picky about the quality of wine that they drink. With<br />
Blue Nun a thing of the distant past, festivals need<br />
to address the issue of safely serving good wine on<br />
a glass-free site. The solution? Quality wine in plastic<br />
bottles. Shaped exactly the same as the standard bottles we see on the supermarket shelves, Event Wine<br />
Solutions pride themselves on selecting high-quality wines and packaging them in a way that makes them safe<br />
and accessible to outdoor event organisers. The bottles are made from lightweight recycled plastic, making<br />
them extremely eco-friendly. The reduced weight also means more bottles per pallet, which means more pallets<br />
per truck, which means less fuel used getting them to your festival. Cheers!<br />
EPS Temp-A-Deck <br />
Festival Monitor<br />
For festival organisers wanting to create high-class VIP bar<br />
areas - or just add a bit of flair to a seating area – EPS Europe<br />
has launched its new Temp-A-Deck temporary decking<br />
system. Each 30cm x 30cm section features a durable plastic<br />
frame overlaid with acacia hardwood strips. The plastic frame is<br />
designed to clip together with the adjacent tile, allowing for quick,<br />
hassle-free installation with no tools required. The system also<br />
comes with specialist edging strips that allow it to be laid in open<br />
areas with a presentable finish and no unsafe edges.<br />
We work in a world dominated by data and information, so getting<br />
an insight into the behaviour, activities and thoughts of festival<br />
customers is a key way for events to develop their operations.<br />
Festival Monitor is tailored to your event, offering a way to collect<br />
useful information via pre-determined survey questions and<br />
then analyse the results using a simple dashboard admin panel.<br />
It’s the 21st century solution to the clipboard, pen and paper<br />
questionnaire, giving users instant access to the results.<br />
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The industry has given huge amounts of media coverage to<br />
the subject of CDM, so a temporary venue claiming to be the<br />
first CDM compliant tensile structure could be a great addition<br />
to any festival’s infrastructure. Produced by The Theatre Tent<br />
Co, the structure is packed full of innovative features that aim<br />
to save an event time and money. The system can be erected<br />
in just five hours and taken down in three hours, with both<br />
process requiring that the roof never touch the ground. Great<br />
sightlines and loads of rigging capacity make this a structure<br />
you’re likely to see around this summer.<br />
Evolution Dome<br />
Inflatable Bar & Kiosk<br />
Quite simply, an inflatable bar and kiosk! This stylish<br />
addition to the ever-growing Evolution Dome range<br />
gives organisers a stylish way to create an eyecatching<br />
customer facing service area. The sealed air<br />
design allows for a quick install, and means that once<br />
it’s up it doesn’t need a pump constantly running to<br />
remain inflated. The tough fabric is fully waterproof<br />
and resistant to damage as well as fire retardant. The structure can also be installed on grass or hard-standing,<br />
both outdoors and indoors. It looks great, and the white fabric means that the structure can be externally lit or<br />
projected on, giving festivals great scope to make it a real feature of the site.<br />
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HSE would like to thank everyone who has been involved<br />
in the process of developing this guidance.<br />
Visiting event sites since CDM Regs 2015 was introduced, has the HSE found the ‘client’,<br />
‘principal designer’ and ‘principal contractor’ to be sufficiently aware of their new responsibilities?<br />
From our contact with duty holders, awareness of CDM 2015 and HSE’s new guidance appears<br />
to be good. However, we realise there is always work to do to improve awareness and compliance<br />
amongst some organisers and production teams. HSE is committed to working with the industry<br />
to ensure that the application of the law to building stages and other temporary structures remains<br />
both proportionate and effective.<br />
Why did the HSE take so long to publish<br />
its guidance?<br />
The new guidance maps CDM to existing common management arrangements in four main<br />
industry sub-sectors, to show how the law can be consistently applied in different situations.<br />
This required a considerable amount of collaborative work between HSE and the industry to get<br />
right, while maintaining pace with our other priorities. Industry representatives took time out from<br />
their busy day jobs to provide HSE with feedback on the draft guidance, which has been reflected<br />
in the published material.<br />
How many event sites does the HSE aim to visit during<br />
season 2016?<br />
Similar to the current 2015/16 work year, around 40 proactive visits are planned for 2016/17.<br />
HSE talks CDM Regs 2015<br />
The rethought Construction (Design and Management) Regulations<br />
(CDM Regs 2015), impacting directly on the event industry, were<br />
introduced last April. Nearly 12 months on, there has been plenty of<br />
reaction from organisers and the supply chain, so we put questions<br />
directly to the HSE.<br />
Did the event industry get sufficiently involved with<br />
the revision during the consultation period?<br />
HSE worked with stakeholders across the entertainment industry, including the event sector, to<br />
arrive at a common understanding of what compliance with CDM 2015 would look like in practice.<br />
This common understanding is reflected in HSE’s new sector-specific CDM guidance, which<br />
provides duty holders with tools and information to assist in their compliance with the law:<br />
http://www.hse.gov.uk/entertainment/cdm-2015/index.htm<br />
Is there a danger that the new look regulations can<br />
simply mean more paperwork/more cost for companies<br />
already operating to the requisite standard, while those<br />
cutting corners simply continue to duck under the tape?<br />
CDM 2015 is not about creating unnecessary bureaucracy and increasing costs. It is about<br />
securing the health, safety and welfare of those carrying out construction work and protecting<br />
others who the work may affect, from harm.<br />
HSE’s strategic aims are to:<br />
• Maintain high standards of health and safety by encouraging strong health and safety leadership<br />
in the management of events and productions<br />
• Implement CDM 2015 proportionately in this sector and avoid imposing unnecessary additional<br />
burdens on business<br />
• Ensure event organisers and production companies are sufficiently competent to identify and<br />
proactively manage their construction risks.<br />
HSE’s new guidance demonstrates how the legislation could be applied in the context of the<br />
entertainment industry. The material will help duty holders assign CDM roles and functions to<br />
existing roles and responsibilities within the industry. To allay fears about unnecessary bureaucracy,<br />
HSE has collaborated with industry representatives to provide examples of typical construction<br />
projects to show what proportionate compliance with the law might look like in practice. HSE’s<br />
proportionate, risk based enforcement policy continues.<br />
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New order – the growth in winter events<br />
Ian Moynes, general manager of Arena Ice, Arena Group’s<br />
temporary ice rink division, discusses the growth in winter<br />
events and how to bring extra festive magic to customers.<br />
“Ice rinks and festive attractions are some of the most eye-catching and highly<br />
lucrative enterprises for the events industry and we expect to see an increase<br />
in numbers in years to come, particularly with the high-end LED technology we<br />
recently launched at the Van Hage rink. There has been a noticeable shift with<br />
venues across the UK looking at creative ways of further engaging their regular<br />
customer base during the winter months, particularly through the use of<br />
temporary infrastructure to enhance events over the festive season.<br />
“At Arena Ice, we work closely with retail and garden centres, leisure destinations, museums and<br />
theme parks looking to further enhance their customer experience. Arena Ice works with<br />
destination venues to create bespoke temporary ice rinks like the Ski Zillertal at Hyde Park’s Winter<br />
Wonderland. All equipment, including rental skates of all sizes and colourful skate aids, customer<br />
lockers, re-surfacing and maintenance machines, plus staff training, can be provided so that you<br />
can focus on delivering the event entertainment – we take care of the rest.<br />
“With the success of outdoor winter events often being heavily dependent upon the unpredictable<br />
English weather, we can help drive footfall to festive events with the addition of our temporary<br />
structures, allowing skating to continue regardless of the elements, under stunning clear or peaked<br />
roofs. Within spacious structures, revenue driving facilities can be installed such as restaurants,<br />
children’s party zones and comfortable reception areas. Working with Arena Group’s Spaceworks<br />
Furniture Hire and Well Dressed Tables divisions, we can also help align the temporary interiors to<br />
your event’s branding or sponsor’s requirements, helping to fully immerse your customers into an<br />
alpine lodge, festive grotto or icy winter wonderland.”<br />
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During 2015, large-scale international festivals demonstrated their early adoption of the trend, the ease of use<br />
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Our platform is also self-managed and anyone can create and manage<br />
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Julian Spear, director at Symphotech, has<br />
experienced the incoming CDM regulations<br />
first hand in his professional role spanning<br />
production director and health and safety<br />
consultant. In 2014 / 2015 Julian was also<br />
part of an industry collective which produced<br />
a temporary guidance to CDM regulations<br />
for demountable structures.<br />
What spurred your interest in CDM?<br />
We had worked to CDM standards for several years on certain events and, like any new<br />
legislation, it was open to varied interpretation. With the lack of a guidance document<br />
from the HSE at the time the new regulations came into force it was important that the<br />
industry itself stepped up to the plate to discuss and agree how best to interpret CDM for<br />
clients and suppliers. The document was concise, informative, produced in consultation<br />
with the HSE and was very well received. It is free to download and the PSA are currently<br />
coordinating some updates from what we’ve learned in year one.<br />
What has been your experience of<br />
the introduction of CDM regulations?<br />
I have witnessed a large amount of uncertainty surrounding the terminology of ‘principal<br />
designer’ and ‘principal contractor’. They seem to be confusing people and I don’t think<br />
the HSE should still be using them. Appointing people to these roles is still not happening<br />
properly and I hear simple misconceptions – the Principal Contractor is not the biggest<br />
contractor on site!<br />
CDM is all about an effective management<br />
structure, which I’m all in favour of and a<br />
simpler labelling of roles would help – the<br />
production manager on most event site will be<br />
undertaking these roles.<br />
Enforcement is being phased in very slowly,<br />
so there are still discrepancies as a significant<br />
proportion of event sites have not yet applied<br />
CDM rigorously. In a lot of places suppliers and<br />
clients still aren’t being asked for appropriate<br />
sign-off sheets, so we are seeing a lot of large<br />
demountable structures or pieces of technical<br />
production equipment being installed and<br />
then audiences entering events without any<br />
sign off to say they have been installed as per<br />
the approved plan, which clearly presents a<br />
potentially dangerous situation.<br />
We build in a contingency in our planning<br />
that some things will differ once you get on site, so maybe allow for a small (say a small<br />
variation in the weight of lights / set / video deployed in a stage roof across a festival<br />
weekend). Anything outside of the accepted variation and the principal contractor<br />
(production manager in the real world) responsible will have the information and<br />
jurisdiction to decline that change with evidence.<br />
Do you think CDM will improve safety at events?<br />
Yes, once everyone understands it and gets used to employing the management systems<br />
that create a clear audit trail. In a nutshell something has been designed properly,<br />
checked to be safe, installed properly and then signed off to confirm that installation as<br />
take place as per the approved plan.<br />
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from cars, standard and specialist LCVs and HGVs, plant and<br />
buggies and ATVs. We also have the largest 4x4 hire fleet in<br />
Europe and the biggest hire fleet of buggies in the UK.<br />
Supplying nationally and to parts of Europe, we have become one of the largest golf buggy<br />
hire and utility vehicle rental companies in the UK with over 1,200 buggies. We are the ideal<br />
company for all event vehicle hire needs supplying everything from golf buggies, ATVs and<br />
UTVs, 4x4s, refrigerated vehicles, cage tippers and many more.<br />
We offer flexible solutions tailored to suit all requirements. Our fleet ranges from 2,4,6,8 seater<br />
passenger buggies, ATVs and specialist units such as road legal, medical, catering, accessible,<br />
dog cage, if we don’t have the buggy, we’ll work with you on the design and build as we’ve<br />
done for airshows, events, TV and film.<br />
Specialising in a variety of utility vehicles we continuously provide our clients with the latest in<br />
buggy hire whilst delivering unparalleled levels of customer services. We have provided our<br />
customers with a multitude of vehicles for a variety of purposes including events, festivals,<br />
sporting events, concerts and shows, golf tournaments, disability, agricultural shows etc. Our<br />
golf buggies are both economical and reliable whether you hire petrol, electric or diesel power.<br />
We can implement project plans and can even provide a dedicated team to manage the show,<br />
from contacting the exhibitors and taking bookings to having an onsite Project Manager that<br />
understands the location, activity and technical support required.<br />
We also offer a buggy chauffer service offering the option of bilingual drivers and<br />
personalised uniforms.<br />
SHB Hire Ltd, 18 Premier Way, Abbey Park Industrial Estate, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 9DQ<br />
t: 01794 511 458 · e: enquiries@shb.co.uk · w: www.shb.co.uk<br />
Fisher Hires have been supplying lighting to the festival and events industry<br />
for over 30 years and stock a wide selection of lighting, AV, rigging and power<br />
distribution equipment to hire.<br />
Lighting:<br />
The ever popular Mythos and K10’s, wireless uplighters and transmission, MA lighting consoles,<br />
LED moving lights and show battens.<br />
Stocking high profile brands such as; Clay Paky, ETC, MA lighting, Core, SGM, Miltec and Prolight.<br />
Power Distro:<br />
Fisher Hires stock a multitude of power distribution options from 16A 1P to 400A 3P.<br />
All supplied in IP rated enclosures.<br />
Rigging:<br />
Litec truss including self-climb option, CM Prostar chain blocks and a host of rigging essentials.<br />
AV:<br />
A wide range of video and sound equipment; including microphones, speakers, monitors and projectors.<br />
Plus;<br />
Fisher Hires also stock a range of essential items including; wireless lit music stands, DJ booths<br />
and staging blocks.<br />
Safety & Expertise:<br />
All items are PAT tested, regularly serviced and prepped ready for use.<br />
Kit is available to hire on a daily or weekly basis to collect from the Fisher Hires warehouse in<br />
South West London, a delivery & collection service is also available.<br />
Visit fisherhires.co.uk to find out more<br />
or call the Fisher Hires team on<br />
020 8875 7878 to ask for a ratecard.<br />
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Gusto develops unique crew catering experience<br />
Gusto Catering are joining forces with CP Foods in a move that<br />
creates a new Festival Events company that provides a unique crew<br />
catering experience.<br />
Managing Director Antony Horton-Tilley said “the venture creates a significant strategic opportunity<br />
for both businesses by sharing complementary strengths. CP Foods are able to provide proven<br />
concession brands like Chozen Noodle while Gusto have a great level of expertise in the Festival<br />
events business. The result is the creation of a new venture that will enable us to combine a standard<br />
canteen style food operation with a food court experience. This will provide greater choice for the<br />
customer while also speeding up service times, reducing queues and providing greater choice”.<br />
The company will be introducing multiple food stations, which will provide a range of traditional fayre<br />
with new exciting offerings from around the world.<br />
Part of this will be the added Asian focused Chozen Noodle operation which CP invested in last year.<br />
That means we can offer a great range of products like Katsu, Chicken Teriyaki together with Thai<br />
classics like Red Thai Curry which have been developed by CP’s own Thai chef team.<br />
The other key area where CP can help is in terms of manpower and logistics as they already have a<br />
national presence with a management team and crew who have both Hospitality and Event based<br />
experience from running 4 operations at the Excel centre along with various external events. That<br />
means we can really scale the business as we have multiple crews able to do extra events.<br />
“It’s a Win/Win as the customer gets more choice while<br />
we are able to serve more customers at peak times”<br />
www.gustocatering.co.uk<br />
34 Meadow Walk, Harpenden, Herts AL5 5TG · T: 07581 375388
Steak out…<br />
In step with its conviction environmentalism more than Morrissey’s<br />
‘meat is murder’ mandate, boutique Northamptonshire festival<br />
Shambala has announced its 2016 edition will be vegetarian.<br />
Event Industry News talks to festival co-founder Chris Johnson.<br />
From line-up to makeup, festivals reflect the wants of their target ticketbuyers, the broader<br />
the stretch, arguably, the greater the potential return. Shambala, however, has three other,<br />
equally core, ingredients: education, education, education. Once you stop learning, you<br />
start dying, after all, and a lesson in the broad arc of environmental best practice is a<br />
laudable legacy from music festivals’ alternative roots.<br />
According to the Shambala website http://www.shambalafestival.org/meat-and-fishfree-for-2016/<br />
the meat industry is responsible for more greenhouse emissions than the<br />
combined exhaust fumes from all global transportation. ‘It’s also becoming more widely<br />
accepted that it is unhealthy to consume meat in the way that we are’.<br />
Launched in 1999, the now 10,000-capacity Shambala has been described as ‘hippyish’<br />
by the Guardian, thanks to its green commitment rather than any propensity for flares<br />
and slippers. In step with that lazy stereotype, this year the festival has been productively<br />
stealing the headlines by taking meat and fish off the menu, entirely. Its audience, typically<br />
20/30-somethings, are used to the leftfield and reaction has<br />
been broadly positive, so far at least.<br />
“There was a bit of chat on Facebook and we had to refund<br />
three people, but it’s four days of your life and you can<br />
choose to come or not,” Chris Johnson tells Event Industry<br />
News. “Shambala has always been about exploring ethics<br />
and this is a principled look at how we’re living and the<br />
impact of the industrial food system.<br />
“It’s too easy to say we’re taking our audience with us, or<br />
anything glib like that. It’s a real challenge to persuade them,<br />
even about something like recycling. They’re at the festival<br />
to have a good time, pure and simple. So it’s up to us as<br />
the organisers to make it as easy as possible to take the<br />
right decision in terms of our festival’s principles.”<br />
Green fingers<br />
The vegetarian step comes on the back of<br />
a run of successes with slightly less radical<br />
initiatives. Johnson and company have worked<br />
their way through the event’s impact and now<br />
use 100 per cent renewables for energy, by<br />
way of example. As a result, Shambala costs<br />
significantly less to run than when it started.<br />
“Our generators are on for a fraction of the<br />
time of most festivals this size because we’ve<br />
reached out to the end user and found out<br />
exactly what power they need,” Johnson says.<br />
“We’ve always been determined to keep on<br />
moving forwards with our ideals, and that has<br />
provoked a lot of debate. We had the highest<br />
reach in terms of social media when we<br />
announced the vegetarian step, which shows<br />
these risks can be worth taking.”<br />
Johnson, to his credit, is acutely aware that removing Shambala-goers’ right to choose what they eat could<br />
be the ultimate political faux pas, but there’s no compromise, just a quality commitment.<br />
“The pressure now is on us,” he says. “Can we provide a delicious, affordable vegetarian menu? That’s what<br />
we have to do to make this idea pay real dividend.<br />
“We have always had stringent standards about food sold on site, using specific wholesalers with an onus<br />
on organic procurement,” Johnson adds. “It’s difficult to monitor the complete supply chain, to be 100 per<br />
cent confident about the food on a festival site, but I’m quite open, in the future, to reintroducing meat to the<br />
Shambala equation, if it’s of the very highest order. A standard, which will be reflected in the price. That, I<br />
think, is the way to open people’s eyes to the real impact of the meat process and the cost of making it fit a<br />
sustainable model.”<br />
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Specialized Security is a leading provider of security, stewarding and<br />
crowd management and consultancy services, providing high quality<br />
tailored solutions to a diverse market including venue, exhibitions,<br />
conferences, events, agricultural, community, sporting and live music events.<br />
The senior management team individually have more<br />
than 25 years experience working within the security,<br />
stewarding and crowd management industry,<br />
providing a complete range of services including<br />
consultancy and on-site crowd management at<br />
resource intensive events.<br />
The company has earned an enviable reputation<br />
through its service delivery at numerous events<br />
throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, thus<br />
becoming a trusted provider to many promoters,<br />
festivals, events, one-off concerts and local<br />
authorities.<br />
With the knowledge that the company’s reputation<br />
relies mainly on the quality and professionalism of<br />
the people the company recruits and employs, the<br />
company adheres to a strict recruitment process<br />
and provides a progressive working environment and<br />
nationally recognised industry training tailored to suit<br />
the needs of our customers.<br />
The company continually strives to evolve its<br />
solutions, developing robust and professional<br />
procedures to ensure the delivery of safe, secure<br />
and enjoyable events, and promotes them as best<br />
practice standards within the industry.<br />
The company was contacted and asked to review<br />
the crowd management operation at the Party at<br />
the Palace event as customer feedback relating to<br />
security and crowd management was very negative.<br />
Party at the Palace is a 2 day event with a<br />
10,000 capacity, a main stage, VIP area, bars,<br />
and concessions.<br />
The company’s unique approach to crowd<br />
management convinced the promoters to change<br />
suppliers. We had to convince both local authority<br />
and police who were now very sceptical on security<br />
providers. Throughout the planning process we set<br />
about suggesting ways to improve processes and<br />
site layout to enhance the customer experience<br />
through reduction of queues, better crowd dynamics<br />
etc, whilst keeping in mind that we had to be cost<br />
effective to match the budget constraints of the<br />
event. This level of expertise seemed to convince the<br />
police that we were competent and capable but they<br />
were still reserved and would only slightly reduce the<br />
police presence at the event.<br />
The event itself went extremely well with us<br />
providing the high level of customer service that we<br />
promised. The event required very little interaction<br />
from the police.<br />
Post event the client carried out a survey with<br />
Security and Crowd Management scoring 4.47<br />
out of 5 a score that reiterated other positive<br />
feedback they had received. Also the police and<br />
local authority were extremely happy, so much so<br />
that they will consider making next year’s event<br />
Police free – making the client very happy due to<br />
the high police costs.<br />
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leading international companies. More than 50 million square metres<br />
of coated fabrics are manufactured and supplied under the brands<br />
VALMEX ® , POLYMAR ® and AIRTEX ® .<br />
Membranes by Mehler Texnologies are favoured for structure, interior design and<br />
event applications. Depending on the event, coated fabrics for indoor and outdoor<br />
applications are available, also print fabrics for stage and set design, decoration or<br />
advertising.<br />
The technical textiles and membranes for structure, weather protection and print are<br />
antimicrobial treated, UV stabilized and flame retardant. This enables the fabrics to<br />
maintain their unique appearance for longer even under extreme climatic conditions.<br />
The technology for the finished membranes comes from over 60 years of experience<br />
in development and production. Continuous research and development further<br />
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To ensure the consistent high quality of products, Mehler Texnologies continually<br />
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Behind all technical textiles, are fabrics woven in company-owned weaving mills. In<br />
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gives a wide range of high performance fabrics.<br />
For more than 20 years architects, interior designers and event planners have put<br />
their trust in membranes by Mehler Texnologies.<br />
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Event Hire Association (EHA) Supporting Members<br />
in the Events Industry Since 2008<br />
EHA assists businesses from sole traders to larger independent and<br />
privately owned organisations by providing various resources to support<br />
members in their industry sectors.<br />
Services include legal advice, training, publicity,<br />
safety checks, leaflets, lobbying and finance<br />
advice; necessary documentation and information<br />
that will hold organisations in better stead in the<br />
long run. In addition, safeguarding can also be<br />
made easier for members, who have access<br />
to EHA’s essential range of health & safety,<br />
economical and credit control services.<br />
As a member you have access to products and<br />
services covering all aspects of your business.<br />
You will receive invaluable information regarding<br />
terms & conditions, safety checks, publicity,<br />
equipment, responsibilities and general day-today<br />
requirements, all of which will prove incredibly<br />
beneficial to your company.<br />
All members are invited to become part of a<br />
board; sitting on a technical panel to review and<br />
To join EHA please contact<br />
membership team on 0121 380 4606<br />
or visit www.eha.org.uk<br />
develop new practices which will impact the<br />
industry and subsequently, their own business.<br />
Members can be from small, local independent<br />
businesses to big name companies, you can reap<br />
the benefits of endless opportunities with EHA.<br />
People come to us because of our reputation<br />
for setting out clear terms and conditions<br />
and industry standards; we are a non-profit<br />
organisation, so any money we make is put<br />
back into the industry.<br />
Additional membership benefits include prime<br />
opportunities for business evolvement (through<br />
training and certification with courses and<br />
qualifications), guidance in relation to codes of<br />
practice, financial planning and insurance and the<br />
chance to keep updated with industry-appropriate<br />
news and happenings through exclusive events<br />
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Mash Machine<br />
turns music lovers<br />
into performers<br />
Mash Machine, a beats-infused<br />
game for up to four, is the next<br />
tech step for keeping people<br />
engaged at events.<br />
A virtual DJ platform, Mash Machine players<br />
interact with each other to make music by mixing<br />
and moving blocks of drums, bass, vocals and<br />
melody across the ’smart’ surface of a square<br />
table. Crucially, it takes less than a minute to start<br />
using, and enjoying, the system productively.<br />
Communication and entertainment entrepreneurs<br />
Ottavio Cambieri, Mathieu Hingant and Andrius<br />
Ziuraitis came up with the concept, having seen<br />
how demand for event staples, such as photo<br />
booths, continued to grow while little else was on<br />
offer. Together, they developed and delivered Mash<br />
Machine, a simple, engaging musical activity that<br />
triggers tuneful connections.<br />
“Mash Machine helps people understand how<br />
music is made from its very basic building blocks,<br />
quite literally,” Cambieri says. “It teaches the<br />
players how to coordinate different elements of<br />
music, like a conductor working with an orchestra.”<br />
It is also a great instrument for cooperation and<br />
has already put a significant soundtrack behind a<br />
number of team building days.<br />
“This plug and play device has been a part of<br />
more than 500 events across the world since<br />
we launched it at the beginning of 2015 and the<br />
feedback has been phenomenal,” Cambieri says.<br />
Controlled via the web browser on a smartphone<br />
or tablet, Mash Machine can be customised for<br />
any occasion. Its look, its controllers and its<br />
content can be tailored for any occasion.<br />
New rhythms and software updates come at<br />
the click of a mouse and the system is simple to<br />
transport, set up and manage.<br />
http://www.mashmachines.com<br />
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Festival Supplier Awards 2016<br />
hailed a huge success<br />
Almost 350 guests from the festival and outdoor event<br />
industry celebrated the second outing of the Festival<br />
Supplier Awards when they were held on 28th January,<br />
at stunning London venue, The Hurlingham Club.<br />
Awards were presented for a host of industry staples<br />
including staging, crowd management, temporary<br />
structures, crew catering, crowd barriers and toilets,<br />
along with accolades for Best Green Supplier and Best<br />
Production Team.<br />
The full list of awards presented was:-<br />
Best Concession / Bar<br />
Peppermint Bars,<br />
British Summer Time<br />
Best Crew / Artist Catering<br />
Beau Nosh Catering,<br />
T in the Park<br />
Best Crewing Company<br />
Showforce, Creamfields<br />
Best Crowd / Pit Barrier<br />
Mojo Barriers, BoomTown Fair<br />
Best Crowd Management<br />
Specialized Security,<br />
Party at the Palace<br />
Best Event Branding<br />
Imaginators, Glastonbury<br />
Best Fencing / Hoarding<br />
GAP Hire Solutions,<br />
Rugby World Cup<br />
Best Festival & Event<br />
Accommodation<br />
Hotel Bell Tent,<br />
Glastonbury Festival<br />
Best Festival Engineering /<br />
Bespoke Structure<br />
Actavo, T in the Park<br />
Best Festival Experience<br />
Bearded Kitten<br />
Best Festival PR Company<br />
Plaster Creative<br />
Communications,<br />
Grillstock Festival<br />
Best Power<br />
Power Logistics,<br />
British Summer Time<br />
Best Screen Supplier<br />
iMAG Displays Ltd,<br />
Big Gig Jersey<br />
Best Sound<br />
SSE Audio Group,<br />
Reading Festival<br />
Best Stage<br />
Star Events Ltd,<br />
Nocturne Live<br />
Best Temporary Roadway /<br />
Walkway<br />
LION Trackhire Ltd, Latitude<br />
Best Temporary Structure<br />
Ascot Structures,<br />
BBC Proms in the Park &<br />
Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park<br />
Best Temporary Water Supply<br />
MTD (UK and Ireland) Ltd,<br />
Boomtown Fair<br />
Best Toilets<br />
Loos for Do’s Ltd,<br />
On Blackheath<br />
Best Visual Spectacular<br />
Quantum Special Effects,<br />
Reading & Leeds Festival<br />
Best Waste Management<br />
Company<br />
Grundon Waste<br />
Management Ltd,<br />
Towersey Festival<br />
Green Festival Supplier Award<br />
Big Green Coach Ltd,<br />
The Secret Garden Party<br />
Best Festival Production Team<br />
Ground Control,<br />
Parklife Weekender<br />
Best Festival Support Service<br />
Bronze – Winner Events,<br />
Goodwood Festival of Speed<br />
Silver – SHB Hire Ltd,<br />
Glastonbury<br />
Gold – Nipperbout,<br />
Newham Mayor’s Festival<br />
and Cambridge Folk Festival<br />
Paul Allott, co-founder of the Festival Supplier Awards commented:<br />
“Moving the awards to the start of the year and changing the location to London, in only their<br />
second year, was a bit of a risk. However, given the success of the evening and the amazingly<br />
positive feedback we’ve received, it was definitely the right decision. It was great to see people<br />
networking, celebrating and clearly cheering each other on – it really was a fantastic evening.<br />
We are incredibly grateful to all our judges, sponsors, supporters and everyone who put<br />
themselves forward for an award. Plans for 2017 are already underway.”<br />
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Festival Directory<br />
Festival Directory<br />
Admission Control<br />
Audio Visual<br />
Buggy Hire<br />
Buggy Hire<br />
Name<br />
Ticketea<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
+34 902 044 226<br />
Postal address<br />
Calle Zurbano,<br />
76, 28010, Madrid<br />
Name<br />
OneBigStar Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0845 0099449<br />
Postal address<br />
Units 16 & 17 Newark Business Park,<br />
3 Brunel Drive, Newark, NG24 2EG<br />
Name<br />
Bradshaw<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01451 250 222<br />
Postal address<br />
New Lane, Stibbington,<br />
Peterborough, PE8 6LW<br />
Name<br />
SHB Hire Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01794 511 458<br />
Postal address<br />
18 Premier Way, Abbey Park Industrial Estate,<br />
Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 9DQ<br />
W: www.ticketea.co.uk<br />
E: info@ticketea.com<br />
W: www.onebigstar.com<br />
E: info@onebigstar.com<br />
W: www.eventvehicles.co.uk<br />
E: rentals@bradshawelectricvehicles.co.uk<br />
W: www.shb.co.uk<br />
E: enquiries@shb.co.uk<br />
Barriers<br />
Bars & Catering<br />
Cash Machines/PDQ<br />
Crewing<br />
Name<br />
Temporary Fencing Limited<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01202 573311<br />
Postal address<br />
Canford Park Arena, Magna Road,<br />
Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 3AP<br />
Name<br />
Gusto<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
07581 375388<br />
Postal address<br />
34 Meadow Walk,<br />
Harpenden, Herts AL5 5TG<br />
Name<br />
123Hire<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0800 54 23 123<br />
Postal address<br />
120 Leman Street,<br />
London, E1 8EU<br />
Name<br />
Upstaging Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
07748186540<br />
Postal address<br />
Langar Road, Barnstone,<br />
Nottingham, NG13 9GH<br />
W: www.temporaryfencingltd.com<br />
E: temporaryfencing@btconnect.com<br />
W: www.gustocatering.co.uk<br />
E: info@gustocatering.co.uk<br />
W: www.123send.net<br />
E: sales@123hire.net<br />
W: www.upstaging.co.uk<br />
E: tom@upstaging.co.uk<br />
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Festival Directory<br />
Entertainment<br />
Entertainment<br />
Event Production<br />
Event Security<br />
Name<br />
The Mo’Joes OÜ<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
+370 (614) 97 594<br />
Postal address<br />
Rävala puiestee 7,<br />
10143 Tallinn<br />
Name<br />
Simply the Best Events<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0800 019 3908<br />
Postal address<br />
2 Lane End Villas, Shinfield Road,<br />
Reading RG2 9BS<br />
Name<br />
SPS Productions<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01726 817380<br />
Postal address<br />
Unit 1Latham Park, St Blazey Road,<br />
Par, Cornwall, PL24 2JA<br />
Name<br />
Specialized Security<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01506 411231<br />
Postal address<br />
4 Rosebank Road, Rosebank Park,<br />
Livingston, EH54 7EJ<br />
W: www.mashmachines.com<br />
E: andrius@mashmachines.com<br />
W: www.simplythebestevents.co.uk<br />
E: sales@simplythebestevents.co.uk<br />
W: www.sps-productions.co.uk<br />
E: hire@sps-productions.co.uk<br />
W: www.specializedsecurity.co.uk<br />
E: info@specializedsecurity.co.uk<br />
Event Management<br />
Event Production<br />
Event Technology<br />
Fencing<br />
Name<br />
2Can Productions<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
07968 340270<br />
Postal address<br />
PO Box 668,<br />
Cardiff, CF11 1EZ<br />
Name<br />
OneBigStar Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0845 0099449<br />
Postal address<br />
Units 16 & 17 Newark Business Park,<br />
3 Brunel Drive, Newark, NG24 2EG<br />
Name<br />
Ticketea<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
+34 902 044 226<br />
Postal address<br />
Calle Zurbano,<br />
76, 28010, Madrid<br />
Name<br />
Temporary Fencing Limited<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01202 573311<br />
Postal address<br />
Canford Park Arena, Magna Road,<br />
Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 3AP<br />
W: www.2CanProductions.com<br />
E: info@2CanProductions.com<br />
W: www.onebigstar.com<br />
E: info@onebigstar.com<br />
W: www.ticketea.co.uk<br />
E: info@ticketea.com<br />
W: www.temporaryfencingltd.com<br />
E: temporaryfencing@btconnect.com<br />
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Festival Directory<br />
Festival Directory<br />
Fridge & Freezer Hire<br />
Inflatable Structures<br />
Lanyards<br />
Lighting<br />
Name<br />
TITAN Containers A/S<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01375396456<br />
Postal address<br />
Europa Trading Centre, London Road,<br />
Grays, Essex, RM20 4DB<br />
Name<br />
Evolution Dome Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01487 640640<br />
Postal address<br />
Unit 17 High Lode Industrial Estate,<br />
Stocking Fen Rd, Ramsey, PE26 2RB<br />
Name<br />
PDC Big<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
020 8614 8980<br />
Postal address<br />
5 Hampton Hill Business Park,<br />
High Street, Hampton Hill, TW12 1NP<br />
Name<br />
Fisher Hires<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0208 875 7878<br />
Postal address<br />
118 Garratt Lane, London,<br />
SW18 4DJ<br />
W: www.TITANContainers.com<br />
E: PM@TCmail.eu<br />
W: www.evolutiondome.com<br />
E: info@evolutiondome.com<br />
W: www.big.co.uk<br />
E: sales@pdc-big.co.uk<br />
W: www.fisherhires.co.uk<br />
E: hires@fisherproductions.co.uk<br />
Inflatables<br />
Insurance<br />
Manned Guarding<br />
Marquee Accessories<br />
Name<br />
Simply the Best Events<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0800 019 3908<br />
Postal address<br />
2 Lane End Villas, Shinfield Road,<br />
Reading RG2 9BS<br />
W: www.simplythebestevents.co.uk<br />
E: sales@simplythebestevents.co.uk<br />
Name<br />
Robertson Taylor - an Integro Company<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0207 510 1234<br />
Postal address<br />
America House, 2 America Square,<br />
London EC3N 2LU<br />
W: www.rtworldwide.com /<br />
www.integrogroup.com<br />
E: festivaluk@integrogroup.com<br />
Name<br />
Specialized Security<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01506 411231<br />
Postal address<br />
4 Rosebank Road, Rosebank Park,<br />
Livingston, EH54 7EJ<br />
W: www.specializedsecurity.co.uk<br />
E: info@specializedsecurity.co.uk<br />
Name<br />
Ansell Handtools (Sheffield) Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0114 244 8098<br />
Postal address<br />
72 Catley Road, Darnall,<br />
Sheffield, S9 5Jf<br />
W: www.ansellhandtools.co.uk<br />
E: ansellhandtools@aol.com<br />
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Festival Directory<br />
Festival Directory<br />
Marquees<br />
Payment Solutions<br />
Pyrotechnics<br />
Rigging<br />
Name<br />
Danco Plc<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01451 250 222<br />
Postal address<br />
The Pavilion Centre, Frog Lane,<br />
Coalpit Heath, Bristol, BS36 2NW<br />
Name<br />
123Hire<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0800 54 23 123<br />
Postal address<br />
120 Leman Street,<br />
London, E1 8EU<br />
Name<br />
Pyrotastic Fireworks<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
07810 858415<br />
Postal address<br />
46 Lynch Hill Park, Whitchurch,<br />
Hampshire, RG28 7NF<br />
Name<br />
Fisher Hires<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0208 875 7878<br />
Postal address<br />
118 Garratt Lane, London,<br />
SW18 4DJ<br />
W: www.danco.co.uk<br />
E: info@danco.co.uk<br />
W: www.123send.net<br />
E: sales@123hire.net<br />
W: www.pyrotastic.co.uk<br />
E: info@pyrotastic.co.uk<br />
W: www.fisherhires.co.uk<br />
E: hires@fisherproductions.co.uk<br />
Plant Hire<br />
Production Companies<br />
Rigging<br />
Screen Hire<br />
Name<br />
TITAN Containers A/S<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01375396456<br />
Postal address<br />
Europa Trading Centre, London Road,<br />
Grays, Essex, RM20 4DB<br />
Name<br />
Hawthorn<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01664 821111<br />
Postal address<br />
Crown Business Park, Old Dalby,<br />
Leicestershire, LE14 3NQ<br />
Name<br />
Rigging Services<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0208 215 1240<br />
Postal address<br />
3 Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, London, E3 3DU<br />
Offices: Pinewood, Birmingham, Manchester, ExCeL<br />
Name<br />
YSLV<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0208 317 7775<br />
Postal address<br />
London, York, Birmingham<br />
W: www.TITANContainers.com<br />
E: PM@TCmail.eu<br />
W: www.hawthorn.biz<br />
E: info@hawthorn.biz<br />
W: www.riggingservices.co.uk<br />
E: london@riggingservices.co.uk<br />
W: www.yslv.co.uk<br />
E: festival@yslv.co.uk<br />
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Festival Directory<br />
Security<br />
Sound & Lighting<br />
Staging<br />
Staging<br />
Name<br />
Security Force Management Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
07986 371 850<br />
Postal address<br />
The Annexe, Fort Pitt Business Centre,<br />
New Road, Rochester, Kent, ME1 1DX<br />
Name<br />
Hire Frequencies Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0203 3026947<br />
Postal address<br />
Unit 15-16 High Cross Business Centre,<br />
Fountayne Road, London, N15 4QN<br />
Name<br />
The Revolving Stage Company Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0247 668 7055<br />
Postal address<br />
Crondal Road, Bayton Road Industrial Estate,<br />
Coventry, CV7 9NH<br />
Name<br />
SPS Productions<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01726 817380<br />
Postal address<br />
Unit 1Latham Park, St Blazey Road,<br />
Par, Cornwall, PL24 2JA<br />
W: www.sfmsecurityconsultants.com<br />
E: admin@sfmsecurityconsultants.com<br />
W: www.hirefrequencies.co.uk<br />
E: enquiries@hirefrequencies.co.uk<br />
W: www.therevolvingstagecompany.co.uk<br />
E: enquiries@therevolvingstagecompany.co.uk<br />
W: www.sps-productions.co.uk<br />
E: hire@sps-productions.co.uk<br />
Sports Security<br />
Staging<br />
Staging<br />
Temporary Structures<br />
Name<br />
Specialized Security<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01506 411231<br />
Postal address<br />
4 Rosebank Road, Rosebank Park,<br />
Livingston, EH54 7EJ<br />
Name<br />
OneBigStar Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0845 0099449<br />
Postal address<br />
Units 16 & 17 Newark Business Park,<br />
3 Brunel Drive, Newark, NG24 2EG<br />
Name<br />
Upstaging Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
07748186540<br />
Postal address<br />
Langar Road, Barnstone,<br />
Nottingham, NG13 9GH<br />
Name<br />
Danco Plc<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01451 250 222<br />
Postal address<br />
The Pavilion Centre, Frog Lane,<br />
Coalpit Heath, Bristol, BS36 2NW<br />
W: www.specializedsecurity.co.uk<br />
E: info@specializedsecurity.co.uk<br />
W: www.onebigstar.com<br />
E: info@onebigstar.com<br />
W: www.upstaging.co.uk<br />
E: tom@upstaging.co.uk<br />
W: www.danco.co.uk<br />
E: info@danco.co.uk<br />
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Festival Directory<br />
Temporary Structures<br />
Temporary Structures<br />
Ticketing<br />
Toilets<br />
Name<br />
Evolution Dome Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01487 640640<br />
Postal address<br />
Unit 17 High Lode Industrial Estate,<br />
Stocking Fen Rd, Ramsey, PE26 2RB<br />
Name<br />
Losberger UK Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01949 845070<br />
Postal address<br />
Unit 14 Roseland Business Park,<br />
Long Bennington, Notts, NG23 5FF<br />
Name<br />
Ticketea<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
+34 902 044 226<br />
Postal address<br />
Calle Zurbano,<br />
76, 28010, Madrid<br />
Name<br />
Loos for Do’s<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0845 123 2901<br />
Postal address<br />
5 Farringdon Business Park, Lower Farringdon,<br />
Nr Alton, Hampshire, GU34 3DZ<br />
W: www.evolutiondome.com<br />
E: info@evolutiondome.com<br />
W: www.losberger.co.uk<br />
E: losbergeruk@losberger.com<br />
W: www.ticketea.co.uk<br />
E: info@ticketea.com<br />
W: www.loos.co.uk<br />
E: info@loos.co.uk<br />
Temporary Structures<br />
Terminal Hire<br />
Toilets & Showers<br />
Trackway<br />
EUROPE<br />
PORTABLE<br />
FLOORING<br />
SPECIALISTS<br />
Name<br />
Mehler Texnologies GmbH<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
+44 (0) 161 684 2310<br />
Postal address<br />
Unit 1.7, Hollinwood Business Centre,<br />
Albert Street, Oldham, Lancs, OL8 3QL<br />
Name<br />
123Hire<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0800 54 23 123<br />
Postal address<br />
120 Leman Street,<br />
London, E1 8EU<br />
Name<br />
Gigloo<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
0330 333 8778<br />
Postal address<br />
25 Westfield Road, Guildford,<br />
Surrey, GU1 1RR<br />
Name<br />
EPS Europe<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01509 768252<br />
Postal address<br />
10 Lazarus Court, Rothley<br />
Leicestershire LE7 7NR<br />
W: www.mehler-texnologies.com/en<br />
E: info-uk@mehler-texnologies.com<br />
W: www.123send.net<br />
E: sales@123hire.net<br />
W: www.getgigloo.com<br />
E: sales@getgigloo.com<br />
W: www.epseurope.co.uk<br />
E: sales@epseurope.co.uk<br />
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Vehicle Hire<br />
Vehicle Hire<br />
Name<br />
Bradshaw<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01451 250 222<br />
Postal address<br />
New Lane, Stibbington,<br />
Peterborough, PE8 6LW<br />
W: www.eventvehicles.co.uk<br />
E: rentals@bradshawelectricvehicles.co.uk<br />
Name<br />
FESTAXI<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01223 459836<br />
Postal address<br />
21 Dandby Close,<br />
Little Paxton, PE19 6FA<br />
W: www.festaxi.com<br />
E: info@festaxi.com<br />
Vehicle Hire<br />
Wristbands<br />
Name<br />
SHB Hire Ltd<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
01794 511 458<br />
Postal address<br />
18 Premier Way, Abbey Park Industrial Estate,<br />
Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 9DQ<br />
W: www.shb.co.uk<br />
E: enquiries@shb.co.uk<br />
Name<br />
PDC Big<br />
Enquiry telephone number<br />
020 8614 8980<br />
Postal address<br />
5 Hampton Hill Business Park,<br />
High Street, Hampton Hill, TW12 1NP<br />
W: www.big.co.uk<br />
E: sales@pdc-big.co.uk<br />
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