TheFestivals
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Type of site | Music festival news |
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| Available in | English |
| Area served | United Kingdom |
| Owner | Wild Clover Media |
| Editor | Sam Warrenger |
| Website | https://thefestivals.uk/ |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Users | 970,000 |
| Launched | 2017 |
TheFestivals is a music festival news organisation. Its website and social media channels also provide festival listings, line-ups, reviews and videos.
The website also hosts collections of original photography for many festivals, including Boomtown (festival), Kendal Calling, Download Festival and Glastonbury Festival, which are published under a Creative Commons license allowing the images to be reused free-of-charge without requesting permission. For this reason, their photography often features in other publications and are used on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. [1]
History
TheFestivals was founded in June 2017, branded as TheFestivals.UK to match the website's domain name until September 2018. The matching .co.uk domain redirects to the .uk domain.
The organisation first received widespread attention after reporting the upcoming ban on single-use plastic at many festivals would effectively ban glitter from the events, with the story quickly picked up by national and international media.[2][3][4][5] Their suggestion that many festivals will soon become meat-free events went on to be covered by other media. [6]
In September 2019, TheFestivals' coverage of Supergrass reforming to play at Glastonbury Festival's Pilton Party was cited in UK, US and Canadian news reports.[7][8][9] Local media have previously used TheFestivals monitoring to confirm how quickly Glastonbury ticket resales have sold out. [10]
On the evening of 17th March 2020, TheFestivals was the first news organisation to report that Glastonbury Festival would be cancelled for the first time in its 50-year history due to the coronavirus pandemic.[11] The cancellation was officially confirmed at 11am the next day, 18th March. [12]
References
- ↑ "Boomtown (festival)", Wikipedia, 2022-01-17, retrieved 2022-01-28
- ↑ "Bestival and Boomtown among 60 UK festivals to ban GLITTER". The Sun. 2018-05-02. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ "UK Festivals Banning Glitter & Plastic, Should U.S. Do the Same?". WCIL - Marion, IL. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ "Glitter Is Litter: 60+ Music Festivals Just Banned Glitter for Good". Your EDM. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ "Glitter: over 60 UK festivals aim to ban plastic glitter". DJMag.com. 2018-05-02. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ "Boomtown Reggae Festival Hints At Going 100% Meat-Free". LIVEKINDLY. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Supergrass reunite for 25th anniversary, tease 2020 plans". Consequence. 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ "Supergrass Announce Reunion | Exclaim!". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ "Supergrass Announce Reunion". Stereogum. 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ Grimshaw, Emma (2019-04-25). "Glastonbury 2019 coach tickets go on resale - live updates". BristolLive. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ Warrenger, Sam (2020-03-17). "Coronavirus: Rumours suggest Glastonbury has now been cancelled". TheFestivals. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ Digital, Pretty Good. "Glastonbury Festival - A statement from Glastonbury Festival". Glastonbury Festival - 21st-25th June, 2017. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
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