Beauty & gossip from Vanity Van salon backstage at Latitude Festival

The Vanity Van salon was absolutely rammed all weekend, fully booked every day and  had to turn dozens of people away – the artists at Latitude loved the treatments – male hair cuts and massages were the most popular as well as dozens of Miners Cosmetics makeovers on the girls, buckets of Batiste dry shampoo with  festival locks getting Nicky Clarke’s Tease Me […]

Sud de France Joie de Vivre Festival at South Bank London

The first large-scale Sud de France Festival will recreate a perfect day in the South of France. The adventurous gastronomy and wines of the sun-kissed Languedoc-Roussillon are brought to London with an authentic food market and music curated by DJ Gilles Peterson. The vibrant event will be free to enter and take place on Saturday 31 […]

BluesFest 2013 Line Up at Royal Albert Hall with Robert Plant, Bobby Womack & Van Morrison

BluesFest 2013 announces that Robert Plant, Bobby Womack, Van Morrison, Gregory Porter, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mavis Staples, Chris Rea are all confirmed for a celebration of music inspired by the Blues. BluesFest takes place at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday 29 October – Friday 1 November. This is the first full scale music […]

Hong Kong To Host Annual Wine and Dine Festival Gourmet Extravaganza

Hong Kong, Asia’s world city, will stage its annual Wine and Dine Festival from 31 October to 3 November (Thursday- Sunday), 2013. This year’s festival will be hosted in a stunning new location, New Central Harbour Front, right in the heart of Hong Kong’s commercial centre and set against the twinkling backdrop of Victoria Harbour. This year’s festival […]

60th Anniversary Coronation Cake for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth

The UK’s leading manufacturer of baking ingredients, Renshaw, has worked in collaboration with the team behind the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding cake to create a bespoke Coronation cake in celebration of the 60th anniversary of The Queen’s Coronation. As a Royal Warrant Holder for its almond products, Renshaw is one of over 200 companies […]

Sky-High In Frankfurt am Main – Europe’s highest festival to take place in May

Frankfurt’s many high-rises combine to form Europe’s most impressive skyline. No other place on the continent has so many skyscrapers nestled together in such a small space. On 25th and 26th May 2013, visitors of the famous Skyscraper Festival will have the chance to get a closer look at these behemoths of the skies while […]

Love Supreme Jazz Festival at Glynde Place 5, 6 and 7 July

Further additions to the line-up of the first ever Love Supreme Jazz Festival taking place on 5, 6 and 7 July 2013 at Glynde Place in East Sussex. Melody Gardot, Esperanza Spalding, Brand New Heavies and The Soul Rebels will join a stellar bill already including Bryan Ferry And The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, Jools Holland and His […]

Museums At Night 2013

Museums at Night, the annual late night festival of art, culture and heritage will take place this year over three nights in May, from Thursday May 16th – Saturday May 18th. Tying in with the European event La Nuit des Musées, hundreds of museums, art galleries and heritage spaces all over the country will be […]

Who’s Performing at Melt! Festival 2013?

Melt, 19/20/21 July 2013, Ferropolis, Germany Alt-J | Azealia Banks | Bambounou | Julio Bashmore | Barnt | Ben UFO | James Blake | Chvrches | Dan Deacon | Daughter | Marcel Dettmann | Disclosure | Django Django | DJ Koze | Eats Everything | Everything Everything | Ellen Allien | Fantastic Mr Fox | […]

Affordable Smartphone App Development for Arts Festivals

Festivals are there to be enjoyed but how often have you run yourself ragged, traipsing from venue to venue, or missed a must-see artist because of faulty timetables or that mountain of heavy leaflets you couldn’t quite get through? Logistical niggles can soon take the fun out of festivals but thanks to Apps for the Arts, a […]