Sunderland to welcome
inaugural Lamplight Festival
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The brand-new live event will be based in the city centre’s Mowbray
Park and will see its headlining stage welcome big-name acts from a
range of different musical genres.
Event organisers Sunderland City Council announced UK indie
giants Kaiser Chiefs as Saturday’s headliners with Sunderland’s very
own Frankie and the Heartstrings confirmed as special guests.
Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson, said: “It’s always great to be
part of a new festival and we can’t wait to once again play alongside
Frankie and the Heartstrings as well as other great acts to headline
the Saturday stage in Sunderland.”
Lamplight Festival will take place at Sunderland’s Mowbray Park
from 8-9 August. Tickets go on sale at 9am on 14 February.
StubHub could face
court action
The Competition and Markets Authority
(CMA) has warned StubHub that it could face
court action if it does not change its website.
The CMA has said it is ‘concerned’ that the
resale site is not warning customers that they
could be turned away at some venues. The
watchdog also said that StubHub could be
breaking consumer law.
StubHub told the regulator that it will
make further changes to its website. The chief
executive of the CMA, Dr Andrea Coscelli,
said that the firm had previously said it would
change its online booking service following
another investigation. However, the CMA has
since identified new issues.
The concerns are that StubHub is:
» Failing to warn customers that they may
not be allowed into venues that don’t accept
resales
» Pressuring customers about ticket
availability, potentially using inaccurate
data
» Failing to let customers know where they
will seated in a venue
» Failing to ensure the full addresses of
business vendors are displayed
06
Arena wins E2O contract
Arena Events Group has won a
contract with E20 Stadium LLP,
owners of London Stadium, to develop
new seating systems in the north and
south of the stadium.
The contract will deliver two new
lower-tier stands bringing 6,000 fans
up to four metres closer to the pitch
than the current system allows. The
designs will create a traditional “kop”
feel to the seating arrangement for
pitch-based events, such as football,
helping to enhance the match-day
experience for fans. The system
will also allow for faster seat moves
between events to help reduce costs
in the UK’s largest multi-use stadium.
This comes following a period of
design development to inform the
brief between E20 and West Ham
United. Initial designs were presented
to the Club’s Official Supporters’
Board in February 2019, and Arena,
E20 and West Ham United will be
consulting with them again to help
inform the more detailed designs
with the aim of installing the seats
this summer.
Lyn Garner, chief executive
of London Legacy Development
Corporation, said: “We are delighted
to have appointed Arena and look
forward to working with them and
West Ham United over the coming
months. Our investment in the new
stands will improve fans’ match day
experience and deliver significant
efficiencies to the running of London
Stadium.”