Judge condemns chain’s ‘complete lack of risk assessment’ over seating fault that led to death of Ateeq Rafiq in 2018. Cinema chain Vue has been fined £750,000 for safety breaches after a filmgoer died when he became trapped under a cinema chair leg-rest in 2018. Ateeq Rafiq, 24, died in hospital after his neck became [...]
On 5 May, ANSI's Board of Standards Review approved two ESTA documents as American National Standards. The following day ANSI's BSR approved four more. All six are now published and available on the ESTA TSP website for download at no cost at http://tsp.esta.org/freestandards. ANSI E1.2 – 2021, Entertainment Technology - Design, Manufacture and Use of [...]
The 50,000 capacity event will be held solely at the iconic Pyramid Stage Glastonbury has been granted permission to hold a one-day festival this year. In January, the Somerset festival announced it was officially cancelled for 2021 due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Two months later, co-organiser Emily Eavis revealed that they had applied for a [...]
Production on Mission: Impossible 7 in the UK has been halted for two weeks due to positive Covid tests within the crew, Paramount has confirmed. The movie, starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, will resume shooting on 14 June. Cruise is also a producer on the action spy series, and last year a recording emerged [...]
Live music returned to the birthplace of The Beatles after a long coronavirus-enforced silence on Sunday when the English city of Liverpool hosted a one-off music festival to test whether such events spread the virus. Around 5,000 people ditched face coverings and social distancing rules in the name of science and music. They attended the [...]
Note from Blumano: This article was originally published on 18th September 2020 from the DailyMail, but highlights the vast importance of health and safety. A Wuhan nurse and her husband have died in a tragic accident while watching a performance dedicated to coronavirus health workers at a local theatre. The unnamed medic and her partner [...]
Prolight + Sound will offer a new digital format for their 2021 event. Please see below: The first digital international exchange and information format for the event community, 13 April 2021, 10am - 4pm. As Prolight + Sound 2021 could not take place due to the current developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, we offer our [...]
Classic FM has reported that the PM's roadmap out of UK lockdown plans for concert halls and theatres to reopen their doors as soon as May 17th. However, this is only if "cases and hospital admissions continue to fall". Yet according to the roadmap, we will have to wait until June 21st for live concerts [...]
A French court on Wednesday handed suspended prison sentences to four people charged over the collapse of a stage as it was being set up for a 2009 concert by pop superstar Madonna, which killed two workers. Judges in the southern city of Marseille, where the concert was to take place, convicted the four of [...]
BSI Publication Help prevent a second wave: Practical steps to support safe working, and prevent and mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks in your organisation. A new version of the ‘Safe Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic Guidelines’ is now available. Version 2 of the Guidelines offers a comprehensive, practical approach, applicable to all organisations, large and small. The [...]
