Event Ticketing Done Right
Premier League football club Arsenal has cancelled almost 2,000 memberships for touting offences this season. Arsenal revealed in February that it was attempting to crack down on ticket touts, and increased the level of bot protection on its ticketing platform. The move resulted in up to 500,000 IP addresses being blocked due to suspected bot …
Music Venue Trust’s (MVT) Music Venue Properties (MVP) board met recently to discuss the outcome of the ‘Own Our Venues’ campaign, which has raised £2.3m (€2.6m/$2.9m) from 1,261 individual investors. The board voted unanimously to move ahead with modelling the purchase of the first set of grassroots music venues. MVT set up the Charitable Community …
NFT Bali has partnered with blockchain ticketing provider Insid3rs for its second annual month-long conference, discussing Web3 themes and Balinese culture. The conference will be held from May 1-31 and will feature a number of activities including workshops, art exhibitions and music performances. Attendees will also be able to explore Bali and Indonesian culture. Insid3rs …
Manchester has imposed a tourist tax for guests staying in order to develop and run large events, conferences, festivals and marketing campaigns. The city is the first in the UK to impose the £1 tourist tax, which will be added per night, per room for those staying in hotels, and is part of a new …
Glastonbury Festival has secured its home at Worthy Farm after the local council granted permanent planning permission for the event. Prior to the decision, Glastonbury Festival Events (GFEL) had rolling temporary planning permission to hold the UK’s flagship festival and other events at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset. This was due to expire in 2024 …
The Cure’s Robert Smith has said that 7,000 scalped tickets have been cancelled since they went on sale last month for the band’s ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ US tour dates. Smith said in a tweet: “Approximately 7,000 tickets across approximately 2,200 orders have been cancelled. These are tickets acquired with fake accounts/listed on secondary …
Trafalgar Entertainment has acquired The Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow. It is the live entertainment company’s first Scottish venue, and the 1,449-capacity theatre is one of the oldest in the country. The Pavilion Theatre will become part of Trafalgar Entertainment’s Trafalgar Theatres vision, which is made up of Trafalgar Theatre in London’s West End, the Theatre …
The 2023 Australian Formula One Grand Prix attracted 444,631 fans across the weekend in Melbourne, with 131,124 fans attending on race day. Yesterday’s (Sunday’s) race was an eventful occasion with three red flags, and eventually saw Max Verstappen take the number one spot followed by Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. The total figure beat last …
Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena has revised its layouts ahead of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest after admitting to “unacceptable” crowd congestion at a sold-out gig in November. According to an internal report seen by the BBC, ACC Liverpool, which runs the 11,000-capacity venue, acknowledged that people had been left in extremely long queues for the …
Goldenvoice has announced a new heavy metal festival that will launch in California later this year with icons Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, Metallica and Iron Maiden. Power Trip will be held over three days from October 6-8 at the Coachella’s home venue of Empire Polo Club in Indio. The new festival comes two years after …