Virtual Festivals is a UK music website that publishes news, reviews, listings, videos, photographs, interviews and competitions on
music festivals. It was launched by Steve Jenner in 1999.
Virtual Festivals was written about in ''
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publishe ...
s "10 Best Sites of the Week" on 26 May 2001. The site joined
Facebook
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in 2007 and was described by the ''
Birmingham Post'' as "the first social networking festival portal".
The site holds its own annual awards show, the Virtual Festivals Awards, which has been covered by ''The Independent''.
Material from the Virtual Festivals site has been reproduced by publications such as ''
The Spectator''.
The Virtual Festivals business was put up for sale by tender in February 2014.
Sale Notification - Sale By Tender - Virtual Festivals.com Limited
Government Auctions. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
Festivals
With a team of more than 200 writers and photographers, the site covers major UK and international music festivals, including:
* Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contempo ...
* Reading Festival
* Leeds Festival
* T in the Park
* Isle of Wight Festival
* V Festival
* Download Festival
* Sonisphere Festival
* RockNess
References
External links
* {{Official, http://www.virtualfestivals.com/
British music websites