The brotherhood of bonding that is your typical heavy metal festival revolves largely around the nihilistic pursuit of music plugged directly into the emotional cortex of the listener. These days the mark of a successful metal... 
Whether you’re making a mud pie or cooking up a fusion generator, the right ingredients are what matters; for Glastonbury revellers both metaphors apply, and as we all know, nobody comes to hear the lights so sound is that vital...
For the last eleven years the mountain town of Mayrhofen in the Austrian Alps has been host to a week-long festival; extreme sports on its slopes during the day; and multi-venue musical extravaganzas when the sun goes down. Of...
When it comes to festival promotion line up is everything and it seems the organisers of Parklife, Manchester in the north of England have achieved a notable success; completing a twenty-thousand ticket sell-out a full six weeks...
Four years into this regular date on the festival calendar and audio suppliers Beachsound are getting the measure of Sunfest in West Palm Beach Florida. "The promoters have built a great event over the years," began Beachsound...
"It's bloody huge basically. It's the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Olympic stadium from 1932, and it seats one hundred thousand"; somehow you can tell Production Manager Ian Gotts had quite a time at this year's Electric Daisy...
It is true to say that opening night at this year's Big Chill Festival held in the quintessentially quiet UK countryside saw more people walking around like Zombies than ever before. Not the result of peaking too early, not even...
Promoted by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) the closing event of the Edinburgh Festival sees a performance by the orchestra emanating from the gardens beneath Princes Street, culminating in a spectacular fireworks display....
The Big Beach Boutique events in the UK seaside resort of Brighton featuring DJ, producer and performer Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, have enjoyed a colourful and at times controversial history. This year's show was no exception....
Modern educational institutions are not immune from the effects of the current economic maelstrom, especially these days when they're required to run on a solid commercial footing. Lowering costs is the fundamental and it can...
The Canary Islands' Heineken Jazz Festival is the most important jazz event on the Islands' calendar. Held each year between June and July, it is staged at different venues around the islands, from open-air events and concert...
Once we all feared communism, next was terrorism lurking in every knapsack; now it seems our biggest fear is ourselves. While we all struggle to come to terms with our ecological impact the fact is we no longer look to...
One of New Zealand's rarer birds, the Kakapos, has much in common with Rippon Festival staged at Lake Wanaka a National Park area on the South Island.The Kakapos are the only member of the parrot family to have a lek mating...
Just four years old yet already the Mosaic Festival has grown from a gourmet event based around Jazz, Latin and Reggae music peppered with the occasional more esoteric performance, to now, where it embraces a truly sizzling...
As recently reported on WDR's famous 'Rockpalast' music show, the 'Metal Train', began its journey in Switzerland, snaked its way through Bavaria, up the Rhine valley, across to West Falia turning right up into Saxony, before...
Just three hours north east of Tokyo, the Hitachi seaside National Park is home to Japan's most popular three-day festival event. The secret to Rock In Japan Festival (RIJF) is arguably its insistence on Japanese artists only;...
Dobson Sound Productions was first approached about this year's Big Chill held at Eastnor Castle in England's Malvern Hills at Christmas 2006, "We've provided equipment for several of the stages over the past few years," said...
Hard to imagine, in just a few short years this festival set in the heart of Tennessee has grown from arch hippy love-in to one of the America's most sought after tickets. This year's event is typical; eighty thousand people...
Daft Punk, the absolute embodiment of European rave culture made live, has recently delivered one of the seminal performances of their career. That's not to say this was easy; Daft Punk's conceptual stage show, featuring a...
Since 1963, the city of Opole in southwestern Poland has hosted the annual National Festival of Polish Song. Only on two occasions has the festival not taken place, the first in 1982 when Poland was under martial law, the...
What better way for d&b audiotechnik to introduce their new M4 wedge than at one of Europe's premier heavy metal festivals, the Sauna Festival held in June at Tampere in Finland, the world capital of Death Metal. The festival...
After several years hosting the annual Bay Beats festival, a concentrated exposition of local south-east Asian talent featuring five 'Indie' bands a day for three days, this year a decision was taken by Singapore's Esplanade...
Since 1971, music fans have flocked to the Danish town of Roskilde to attend what has become one of the biggest annual music festivals in Europe, if not the World. This year, just short of ninety thousand fans complete with...
Since 1988, the International Notodden Blues Festival that takes place in Norway, has been a 'must' for dedicated Scandinavian blues fans as well as those from further a field. Taking place annually for four days in early August...
The 27th Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival proved more successful than ever. Despite featuring largely obscure and difficult composers from the niche market of modern composition, the audiences have again grown. The...
Somehow bright sunshine, good vibes, and clean hair seems at odds with the Heavy Metal tradition, but that didn't stop 8,000 fans a day from revelling in a power fest' of scream and scare. Tampere's Sauna Festival might be...
