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Today Glastonbury opens its doors for this years festival.  If you’re lucky enough to be going you’ll be wanting to know what’s happening across festival site so you don’t miss out on all  the action.  Orange have been producing apps for the legendary festival for the last few years and they have just brought out the 2010 version.  Although we didn’t build the app we still think it is a great app and a vital tool for navigating your way around.

The Standard version of the GlastoNav app includes:

Interactive map with zoom function

Full stage listings brought to you by the Guardian Guide

A complete bar guide

An easy way to pinpoint your tent, so you never get lost

Q’s favourite artist recommendations each day

The iPhone version includes:

All the great features of the standard app, but with an interactive 2D and augmented reality map

So there you go, that’s our tip for the Festival.  If you’re going this year, have a cider or two for us that have to stay behind and have a great weekend!

This years International Music Summit is rapidly approaching with under a week to go until the conference.  This year we have two reasons to be particularly excited about the conference on the White Isle.  Firstly because our MD David Mitchell will speaking during the conference on the panel ‘Our Community is our Brand’ and secondly because Scribble: will be providing the Official IMS:10 iPhone App!

The app is due to go live on the App Store imminently and will be the only app you’ll need during the conference.  We’ll blog a full list of features in the next few days but for the time being have a look at the image attached for a taste of what is to come!

If your not going to this years IMS, why not?  But if you are then don’t hesitate to contact us, we’ll be available for meetings throughout the conference and would love to talk to you about how our apps can connect you to your audience.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis, revealed on Glastonbury FM that there will be a new late night area at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

Mr Eavis said in the interview, “We’re (investing) down in the old Lost Vagueness Fields, now called Shangri-La. We’ve now got Shangri-La, we’ve got Trash City, Arcadia, and we’ve got Section 9 which is a new area. So, we’re investing heavily into that area down there for entertainment, because that’s where people want to be. We’re increasing investment into that area by about £200,000.”

Details about the new Section 9 area are few and far between, but with this sort of investment being put into the late night area Poker PR is looking forward to seeing the outcome.

During the interview Michael also revealed that Stevie Wonder is still yet to be confirmed for the Sunday headline slot, the farmer did reveal that Mumford & Sons will be play the Park Stage this year.

The festival organisers have announced that the re-sale of cancelled tickets for this year’s Festival will take place at 9am on Sunday, 11th April 2010. To be with a chance of getting your hands of some of these extremely limited tickets you have register at glastonburyregistration.co.uk before the 31^st March. Tickets will be sold online at www.seetickets.com/g2010 and via the Seetickets booking line 0844 412 4635.

By Justin Pywell

The SXSW (South by South West) festival in Austin, Texas starts tomorrow, running for nine days and encompassing many forms of media making it the festival that leads the way in interaction over many platforms.

SXSW really show others what is possible when it comes to using social media, utilising Facebook and Twitter amongst many other platforms, to bring up-to-date information to delegates and those attending. You can also use your Facebook and Twitter accounts to connect with other services such as the (unofficial) guide to the event on sched.org.

The festival, of course, has an iPhone app and it looks great. With schedule and maps as the more basic functions, it also includes some special features for the badge holders including a card feature that allows you to send your contact details to other delegates and a messaging feature that allows the badge holders to communicate away from the festival’s own social network my.SXSW.

It would be great to see some of the UK festivals embrace these types of technology; fans love to interact and connect in every way possible and we at Poker PR can offer all the services to make this happen.

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By Justin Pywell

Two new additions have been added to the ever-growing line up of this year’s V-Festival. The event takes place on Saturday 21st and 22nd August 2010 at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Essex and Weston Park, Staffordshire. Calvin Harris and Doves have both been added to the 4Music stage and will be joining headliners The Prodigy and David Guetta, supported by Florence and the Machine.

The main V stage headliners over the two days are Kasabian and Kings of Leon with support from likes of Stereophonics, Faithless, The Kooks, Paul Weller, Paolo Nutini, Pet Shop Boys, Cheryl Cole, Madness, Editors, White Lies, Mika, Groove Armada, The Courteeners, The Charlatans, The Temper Trap, Amy Macdonald, Goldfrapp, Shed Seven, Newton Faulkner, La Roux, Skunk Anansie, Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding, Paloma Faith, Plan B, Sugababes, and Pixie Lott also confirmed with more acts still to be announced.

Tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow morning so be sure to get in there quick. A list of official ticket outlets is available here. Festival officials are warning that there are a large amount of scam websites out there and also recommending that festival goers do not use secondary ticket sellers to avoid disappointment.

Poker PR has attended V Festival for many years and if this year’s event can come anywhere close to last year’s sun kissed event then we are in for a real treat.

By Justin Pywell