Who was the founder of the British rock festival that featured "massive technological surveillance by police" in 2015?
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Stuart Galbraith Stuart Galbraith is a British live music event promoter. He is the founder of Kilimanjaro Live, one of the United Kingdom's largest music promoters. Starting his career as Events Booker at Leeds University and then at independent promoter MCP, Galbraith went on to become Managing Director of Live Nation and was responsible for the creation of Download Festival, Wireless Festival, Hyde Park Calling and the Live8 Concert.
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Download Festival Download Festival is a British rock festival, held annually at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, since 2003. It is the most popular British summer rock and heavy metal festival and has hosted some of the genres' biggest names, including Saxon, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Kiss, Judas Priest, Status Quo, Mötley Crüe, Journey, ZZ Top, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and Guns N' Roses. The 2015 festival featured massive technological surveillance by police in conjunction with festival organizers Live Nation UK. RFID wristbands and facial recognition technology was used to compare visual scans of attendees against a European criminal database.
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Stefan Templeton R. Stefan Templeton (born July 15, 1967) is the founder of the SPEAR Project (Standing Patrol for Emergency Assessment and Response).
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Julien Temple Julien Andrew Temple (born 26 November 1952) is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", "Absolute Beginners" and a documentary film about "Glastonbury".
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Rob da Bank Robert John Gorham (born 24 June 1973 in Portsmouth, Hampshire), known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is an English DJ and co-founder of music festivals Bestival, originally on the Isle of Wight and now moved to Lulworth, Dorset and Camp Bestival, also in Lulworth. He presented a show on BBC Radio 1 which focused on promoting new left field music. Examples of artists featured on his show include Tipper, Moloko and a host of unsigned acts.
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Colin Larkin (writer) Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British entrepreneur and writer. He was the editor in chief and founder of the "Encyclopedia of Popular Music", described by "The Times" as "the standard against which all others must be judged". He is the CEO and editor-in-chief of 'Best Things on Earth' an online multi-media rating site.
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Radiohead live performances Radiohead, an alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, have had concerts and other live performances in Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and South America. The band's line-up has been constant since its founding, consisting of Thom Yorke (vocals and guitar), Jonny Greenwood (guitar), Ed O'Brien (guitar), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar), and Phil Selway (drums). The role that each band member plays during performances has changed dramatically throughout the band's history.
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Balaton Sound Balaton Sound, also known as Heineken Balaton Sound between 2007 and 2012 and as MasterCard Balaton Sound since 2013 for sponsorship reasons) is one of Europe's largest open air electronic music festivals. Held annually since 2007 on the southern bank of Lake Balaton, Hungary, it features live acts and DJ's from all around the world, from established artists to new names. The event was co-created by the organizers of Sziget Festival.
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Neville Farmer Neville MacKenzie Farmer (born 17 January 1960) is a British music, television and film producer, composer, performer and music industry commentator.
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Rise Festival Rise was a free anti-racism music festival held in London, England from 1996 to 2008. Originally organised as an anti-racism festival by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), it was revived as such by the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. In June 2008, the Greater London Authority, under newly elected Mayor Boris Johnson, removed the anti-racist message of the festival. Subsequently, the trade unions UNISON and Unite the Union withdrew their festival funding, and Johnson cancelled the festival in April 2009, blaming lack of sponsorship.
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Daft Punk Unchained Daft Punk Unchained is an Anglo-French documentary that was televised on 24 June 2015 in France and on 9 February 2016 in the UK. It documents the rise to fame and the lives of Daft Punk members Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter and their pioneering influence on the electronic music scene.
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Free festival Free festivals are a combination of music, arts and cultural activities, for which often no admission is charged, but involvement is preferred. They are identifiable by being multi-day events connected by a camping community without centralised control. The pioneering free festival movement started in the UK in the 1970s.
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Vaughan Smith Henry Vaughan Lockhart Smith (born 22 July 1963) is an English restaurateur, sustainable farmer, news pioneer and independent video journalist. He ran the freelance agency Frontline News TV and founded the Frontline Club in London. "The Guardian" has described him as "a former army officer, journalist adventurer and rightwing libertarian."
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Rock festival A rock festival, often considered synonymous with pop festival, is a large-scale rock music concert, featuring multiple acts performing an often diverse range of popular music including rock, pop, folk, electronic, and related genres.
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Mark Moore Mark Moore (born 12 January 1965) is a British dance music record producer and DJ. He was founder of the dance/sampling pioneers S'Express, and runs the London nightclubs, 'Electrogogo' and 'Can Can'.
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Phoenix Festival The Phoenix Festival was set up by John Vincent Power of the Mean Fiddler Music Group in 1993 as an alternative to the established Glastonbury and Reading Festivals. It was held at Long Marston Airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon and was one of the first four-day festivals in Britain.
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The Great Escape Festival The Great Escape Festival is a major three-day music festival held in Brighton and Hove, England every year in May. It is operated by MAMA & Company and showcases new music from a variety of genres. The festival was founded in 2006 and roughly hosts 300 bands across 30 venues throughout the city. It has been likened to South by Southwest.
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Resistanz Resistanz was an industrial music festival held annually from 2011 until 2016 over the Easter weekend, at the Corporation venue in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The festival primarily features alternative electronic music acts including industrial, EBM, futurepop, synthpop and power noise. In recent years the festival has expanded to include a smaller second room featuring an eclectic mix of artists from genres such as Chiptune, EDM and Drum and bass.
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Chris Welch Chris Welch (born 1941) is a music journalist, reviewer and critic with "Melody Maker", famous during the 1960s and 1970s for reporting on the rise of such bands as Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, If, Cream, Jeff Beck and Jethro Tull. During that time he also reported on the UK jazz scene.
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Cut La Roc Lee Potter (born 4 January 1972), known by his stage name Cut La Roc, is a British electronic musician, considered as a pioneer of big beat, a genre fusing elements of
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Dave Beer Dave Beer (born David Michael Beer on 24 January 1965) is a Yorkshire music mogul who achieved notoriety in the 1990s as the promoter of the UK’s longest running club night Back To Basics. In the early days, his passport occupation read "purveyor of good times" and he went on to be nicknamed by music Mixmag as the "King Of Clubs". With his Leeds based club night "Back To Basics", Dave features as one of the youngest men in Leeds City Museum’s exhibition chronicling the popular culture of Leeds.
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Sting (musician) Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 2 October 1951), better known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band The Police from 1977 to 1984, before launching a solo career.