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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 />

New Temp-A-Deck Now<br />

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EPS Temp-A-Deck is the simplest<br />

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any glue. The only tool you may need could be a saw<br />

if you need to fit a tile around a post or a downpipe.<br />

EPS Temp-A-Deck is perfect for indoor or outdoor applications, allowing event organisers to build stunning<br />

outdoor areas for summer events or create amazing spaces within indoor venues or marquees.<br />

t: 01509 768 252<br />

e: sales@epseurope.co.uk<br />

w: www.epseurope.co.uk<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 />

distinguished clients”<br />

Marquee & temporary<br />

structure hire<br />

‘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 />

& safety legislation correctly<br />

and apart from re-wording some<br />

paperwork as a result of CDM<br />

regulations, we have been able to<br />

continue working as efficiently<br />

as we already were.<br />

Unquestionably, the festival<br />

market is growing and with the<br />

emergence year on year of new<br />

grass roots festivals implies that<br />

losing yourself in a festival for a<br />

day or a whole weekend is still a<br />

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 />

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“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 />

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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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SHB has been providing vehicle hire and management for nearly<br />

50-years. We have a diverse fleet of over 14,500 vehicles ranging<br />

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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Your Business In Safe Hands<br />

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 />

enhances existing composite materials, and opens up new ranges of applications.<br />

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 />

addition to this, a variety of precision coatings, according to the particular application,<br />

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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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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 />

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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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Take a look at our full product range on our website<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 />

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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