SPOT Competitors

The Glastonbury Festival aims to encourage and stimulate youth culture from around the world in all its forms, including pop music, dance music, jazz, folk music, fringe theatre, drama, mime, circus, cinema, poetry and all the creative forms of art and design, including painting, sculpture and textile art. A large area of the Festival (the “green” area) is set aside for complementary and alternative medicine, demonstrations and displays of environmentally-friendly technologies and techniques, various forms of religious expression, and a forum for debating environmental, social and moral issues. The Festival organises market places, selling an enormous range of wares, and which place particular emphasis on offering high quality prepared food and hand-made goods, including clothes and jewellery. The company makes films and recordings of the event, which are sold all over the world. In addition to all of this, the company actively pursues the objective of making a profit. And in so doing is able not only to make improvements to the site, but also to distribute large amounts of money to Greenpeace, Oxfam, Water Aid and other humanitarian causes which enhance the fabric of our society. In the running of the event the Festival deliberately employs the services of these organisations, increasing the amounts they can raise towards their objectives.

Primavera Sound is a Barcelona-based music promotion company that has, since its modest beginnings, developed a strong commitment to music so that spectators from different generations can enjoy the experience of live music to the full. This is clearly reflected in the innovative quality of its events, that exude coherence, eclecticism and the love of risk taking and are characterized by its unmistakeable artistic line strongly influenced by rock, pop and the most underground tendencies of dance music. Its festival Primavera Sound, that has taken place in Barcelona since 2001, has consolidated itself as a model reference for urban festivals that is internationally considered as an unmissable musical event. In parallel to this main event, PrimaveraPro has also taken off. An international meeting aimed at professionals from the music industry that in only five years has become an international reference for the independent music industry. Its programme comprises talks, conferences, workshops, showcases, meetings, etc. NOS Primavera Sound is Primavera Sound’s Portuguese counterpart and it has taken place in the city of Porto since 2012. The event has grown with every edition confirming the expansion of the Primavera spirit beyond our borders. Moreover, the indoor festival Primavera Club that takes place every autumn in different venues around Barcelona offers the occasion to discover artists that represent what the organisers see as the immediate future of the music scene. The Barcelona company also organises national and international band tours around Spain and has included in its multidisciplinary proposal the label El Segell del Primavera, that has around 15 artists and bands associated with it and has already released over twenty records, and La Botiga del Primavera Sound, in the historic Born district, in which vinyl lovers can find a choice selection of references as well as books, music DVDs, gadgets, gifts and merchandising.

Roskilde Festival is the largest North European culture and music festival and has existed since 1971. We are a non-profit organisation consisting of about 50 full-time employees and thousands of volunteers. Volunteers During the festival itself the number of volunteers increases to about 30,000. These volunteers staff the festival stalls, build stages, provide camping security etc. Most volunteers are from cultural organizations and sports associations in the area. These clubs and societies run most of the stalls at the Festival Site, and with their great variety in goods and atmosphere the stalls contribute to the unique, intimate and exciting ambience at Roskilde Festival. Non-profit society behind the festival The Roskilde Festival Charity Society is the organizer of Roskilde Festival. The purpose of the society is to support initiatives benefitting children and young people and to support humanitarian and cultural work. The society's work is independent of party politics and has no geographical borders.