Ground Control’s MD, Jon Drape said “I’m immensely proud of the Ground Control team and our network of amazing freelancers.  The festivals that we run are no strangers to audience awards but it’s extra special for us to receive recognition like this from our peers across the breadth of the events community. The UK festival industry is amongst the best world, breaking new ground in creativity, safety and audience experience – and we’re undoubtedly a leader in the field.“

Check out this vine of our team collecting the trophy at the ceremony held in The Lancaster London.

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A huge thanks is owed to the Ground Control internal team, our crack squad of dedicated freelancers and of course to our friends at Parklife.

We’ve worked on Parklife since day 1 – delivering site, production, site and event management – so this award, like the festival itself, is very dear to our hearts!

Congratulations to all the other #FSAwards 16 winners; have a look at the full list here – we’re in excellent company.

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The Ground Control team were out in force at the Festival Awards 2015; watching Kendal Calling pick up Best Toilets and Festival No 6 Best Small Festivals.

We’re hugely proud of all the shows we’re involved in so it’s always extra special when they receive recognition from the wider industry.

Congratulations to all of the winners, see the full list here.

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Parklife have three nominations – Best Line Up, Best Major Festival and Best Dance Festival.  Parklife picked up the award for Best Use of New Technology in 2014 and are primed for another win!

The team from Kendal Calling are up for a grand total of five awards – Best Medium Size Festival, Best Family Festival, (the coveted) Best Toilets, Best Line Up and promoters From the Fields are contenders for Promoters Of The Year.

Snowbombing are  running for Best Use of New Technology for the RFID cashless system implemented with great success at this year’s event; and for Best Overseas Festival – an award they are not unfamiliar with having won it 2013 and 2010.

Finally, Festival Number 6 are nominated for Best Line Up (an award they won in 2014), The Extra Festival Award for their carnivals, parades and installations, Best Small Festival and – a new award for 2015 – Best Hospitality.

Ground Control will be out in full force at the ceremony in London later this month. Good luck to all our festival friends!

- Read more about the Festival Awards here.

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2015 saw Rudimental, Disclosure, Mark Ronson, Nas, Fatboy Slim and Grace Jones – among many others – take to the stages in Heaton Park. We oversaw site and production management and worked very closely with agencies including Manchester City Council, Greater Manchester Police and Transport for Greater Manchester on wider issues like local impact, transport for ticket holders to and from the site, cleansing, licensing and medical / welfare provision.

The Ground Control team are on site managing the final site break and load out; click on the link below for an amazing set of images that show the fruits of their labour over the last few weeks.

http://photos.parklife.uk.com

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You may think we would be having a rest after the festival season but our team were kept busy as autumn arrived. The MCR Student Takeover hosted in co-operation with the Heart of Manchester BID brought an afternoon of street entertainment, an art installation and DJ’s onto Market St, King St and New Cathedral St as a backdrop to exclusive student discounts for one afternoon only.

We were very pleased to be back at the Jodrell Bank Observatory with Abandon Normal Devices to deliver a night of outdoor cinema under the stars! The event Watch the Skies! This was a flagship event in the British Film Institution project ‘Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder’.

With the countdown to Christmas in full swing, we are half way through supporting the Warehouse Project to deliver yet another top notch series of events back at the Store St venue under Piccadilly train station, Manchester. But our summer festivals are not a distant memory – we are proud to announce our 2014 shows are already winning awards: Festival Number 6 won Unique Festival Site at the Festival Congress and Best Small Festival at the Live Music Business Awards, adding to its three major awards won in 2013 and 2012. The new Parklife Weekender stage ‘The Temple’ (pictured) also won Best Stage at the Festival Supplier Award collected, deservedly, by No Nonsense.

We are awaiting Attitude is Everything’s announcement regarding our charter awards for 2014 with Kendal Calling aiming for Silver this year. Finally, we are absolutely delighted to learn our festivals are shortlisted for 10(!) awards in the 2014 UK Festival Awards taking place in December. See below for the list of nominations.

Next year is set to be another busy one with the team already planning the delivery of next year’s Parklife Weekender. More news to follow soon!

Festival Awards:

Best Medium Sized Festival – Kendal Calling

Best Small Festival Festival – Number 6

Best Family Festival – Kendal Calling

Best Dance Event – Parklife

Best Overseas Festival –  SnowBombing

Best Toilets – Kendal Calling

Headline Performance of the Year – Suede at Kendal Calling

Line up of the Year – Festival Number 6

Best Use of new technology – Drugs Testing at The Parklife Weekender

The Extra Festival Activity Award – Festival Number 6

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The ceremony, which took place at London’s Troxy, was attended by music industry professionals and musicians covering a whole host of musical of genres and events.

This is the third major award Festival Number Six has picked up in recent months, having recently been awarded Best New Festival and Best Headline Performance for New Order at the at the UK Festival Awards 2012.

“The Festival Number Six team has been working hard at developing the plans for this year’s September weekend event so we are really excited to build on last year’s success and deliver another festival at one of the most beautiful festival settings we have ever worked on”, added Jon.

This year’s Festival Number Six takes place over the weekend of Friday 13th to Sunday 15th September, at Portmeirion, North Wales.

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Best Additional Activity at a Festival – Live From Jodrell Bank

Best New Festival – Festival Number Six

We were also delighted that some of our friends won awards;

Best Headliner at a Festival – New Order

Promoter of the Year – Gareth Cooper

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