[
 {
  "title": "Wristband.com: NFC vs RFID wristbands",
  "url": "https://www.wristband.com/blogs/news/nfc-vs-rfid-wristbands-technology-guide",
  "type": "guide",
  "topic": "wristbands",
  "why": "Plain explanation of read ranges and why gates and bars use different chips."
 },
 {
  "title": "Dour Festival: Cashless",
  "url": "https://dourfestival.eu/en/cashless",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "wristbands",
  "why": "A full closed-loop rulebook: currency price, cap, refund window, fee and deadline."
 },
 {
  "title": "Hinterland: Wristband Policy",
  "url": "https://hinterlandiowa.com/info/wristband-policy",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "wristbands",
  "why": "A typical US policy on activation, tampering, replacement fees and counterfeits."
 },
 {
  "title": "Mobile Sports Report on Coachella cellular data",
  "url": "https://www.mobilesportsreport.com/2016/04/att-records-29-2-tb-of-cellular-data-during-coachella-weekends/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "wristbands",
  "why": "Rare carrier numbers on festival data use and the hardware behind it."
 },
 {
  "title": "The Conversation: The environmental cost of abandoning your tent",
  "url": "https://theconversation.com/the-environmental-cost-of-abandoning-your-tent-at-a-music-festival-120198",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "camping",
  "why": "Source of the UK abandoned-tent estimate and the plastic math."
 },
 {
  "title": "National Rail: Glastonbury Festival by train",
  "url": "https://nre.co.uk/inspiration/glastonbury-festival-by-train/",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "camping",
  "why": "How the Castle Cary shuttle works and when it runs."
 },
 {
  "title": "Attitude is Everything: Our story",
  "url": "https://attitudeiseverything.org.uk/about/our-story/",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "camping",
  "why": "History of the UK access charter and the Disabled Stewards programme."
 },
 {
  "title": "AFAR: How music festivals are rethinking accessibility",
  "url": "https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-music-festivals-are-rethinking-accessibility",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "camping",
  "why": "Comparison of companion policies and access upgrades at North American festivals (2026)."
 },
 {
  "title": "The Purple Guide: Catering at events",
  "url": "https://www.thepurpleguide.co.uk/catering-at-events",
  "type": "guidance",
  "topic": "camping",
  "why": "The UK industry guidance on drinking water at events."
 },
 {
  "title": "The Purple Guide (Events Industry Forum)",
  "url": "https://www.thepurpleguide.co.uk/about-the-purple-guide",
  "type": "guidance",
  "topic": "build",
  "why": "The UK reference manual for outdoor event safety."
 },
 {
  "title": "HSE - Stage barriers",
  "url": "https://www.hse.gov.uk/event-safety/stage-barriers.htm",
  "type": "official guidance",
  "topic": "build",
  "why": "Free UK government guidance on front-of-stage barriers and pits."
 },
 {
  "title": "Pembrokeshire County Council - toilets for outdoor events",
  "url": "https://www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/faq-planning-your-event/how-many-toilets-do-i-need-to-provide-for-my-outdoor-event",
  "type": "official guidance",
  "topic": "build",
  "why": "Toilet ratios by event length, in plain language."
 },
 {
  "title": "G. Keith Still - Crowd density",
  "url": "https://gkstill.com/Support/crowd-density/CrowdDensity-1.html",
  "type": "expert reference",
  "topic": "safety",
  "why": "Density figures and diagrams for standing and moving crowds."
 },
 {
  "title": "Texas Task Force on Concert Safety final report announcement",
  "url": "https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbotts-texas-task-force-on-concert-safety-releases-final-report",
  "type": "official report",
  "topic": "safety",
  "why": "The main US policy response to Astroworld."
 },
 {
  "title": "Glastonbury Festival medical care study",
  "url": "https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/prehospital-and-disaster-medicine/article/glastonbury-festival-medical-care-at-the-worlds-largest-greenfield-music-festival/FC4A2C70B341388A4C71A4F8D692F09C",
  "type": "academic study",
  "topic": "safety",
  "why": "The most detailed published data on festival medical demand."
 },
 {
  "title": "Roskilde Festival - 25 years after the tragedy",
  "url": "https://roskilde-festival.dk/en/press/press-kit/25-years-after-the-tragedy-at-roskilde-festival",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "safety",
  "why": "The festival's own account of 2000 and what it changed."
 },
 {
  "title": "CNN - Indiana State Fair reports",
  "url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/12/us/indiana-state-fair-reports",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "safety",
  "why": "Summary of the engineering and emergency-planning findings."
 },
 {
  "title": "DJ Mag - UK festival drug testing licences",
  "url": "https://djmag.com/news/uk-festival-drug-testing-resume-summer-following-home-office-licence-debacle",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "safety",
  "why": "How UK festival drug checking became licensed."
 },
 {
  "title": "Count down to Glastonbury with all the numbers you need to know (AP, 2025)",
  "url": "https://www.news4jax.com/entertainment/2025/06/25/count-down-to-glastonbury-with-all-the-numbers-you-need-to-know/",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "season",
  "why": "The best single page of Glastonbury scale figures: license, stages, performers, sellout time."
 },
 {
  "title": "Why is there no Glastonbury in 2026? (Radio X)",
  "url": "https://www.radiox.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/why-is-there-no-festival-in-2026-and-what-is-a-fallow-year/",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "season",
  "why": "Explains the fallow year and gives the 2027 dates."
 },
 {
  "title": "Burning Man Is Not a \"Music Festival,\" or Even a \"Festival\" (Burning Man Journal, 2012)",
  "url": "https://journal.burningman.org/2012/05/opinion/serious-stuff/not_a_festival",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "season",
  "why": "Burning Man's own case against the festival label."
 },
 {
  "title": "EXIT Festival confirms 2025 edition will be its last in Serbia (Mixmag)",
  "url": "https://mixmag.net/read/serbias-exit-festival-to-end-after-25-years-news",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "season",
  "why": "The organizers' account of why Exit left, in their words."
 },
 {
  "title": "Overseas visitors at Fuji Rock (The Japan Times, 2025)",
  "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/04/music/overseas-visitors-fuji-rock-festival",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "season",
  "why": "Who buys Fuji Rock tickets from abroad and why the share is growing."
 },
 {
  "title": "More than 10 Aussie music festivals axed (2025)",
  "url": "https://broomead.com.au/entertainment/devastating-more-than-10-aussie-music-festivals-axed-in-the-last-year-as-experts-call-on-the-federal-government-to-step-in-c-17514243",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "season",
  "why": "The Australian Festival Association's explanation of the 2024-2025 cancellations."
 },
 {
  "title": "Beyond the music: Belgium's big summer festival moments (Belga)",
  "url": "https://www.belganewsagency.eu/beyond-the-music-belgiums-big-summer-festival-moments",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "season",
  "why": "Attendance, arrests and milestones across Tomorrowland, Pukkelpop and Rock Werchter in 2025."
 },
 {
  "title": "Music Week: AIF warns on festival closures (2025)",
  "url": "https://www.musicweek.com/live/read/aif-warns-on-festival-closures-as-sector-sees-dozens-of-events-called-off-in-2025/092117",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "season",
  "why": "The UK independent sector's closure counts and its tax-relief proposal."
 },
 {
  "title": "Glastonbury Festivals: History 1970",
  "url": "https://glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/history/history-1970/",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "history",
  "why": "The festival's own account of the £1 first edition."
 },
 {
  "title": "Glastopedia timeline",
  "url": "https://glastopedia.com/timeline",
  "type": "fan archive",
  "topic": "history",
  "why": "Year-by-year Glastonbury record, including every fallow year."
 },
 {
  "title": "A History of the Newport Jazz Festival, Chapter I",
  "url": "https://postgenre.org/newport-jazz-history-chapter-i/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "history",
  "why": "Detailed account of the 1954 opening weekend."
 },
 {
  "title": "UPI archive: Death, debris in Altamont wake",
  "url": "https://www.upi.com/Archives/1969/12/08/Death-debris-in-Altamont-wake/9131575577825/",
  "type": "archive news",
  "topic": "history",
  "why": "The wire report from two days after Altamont."
 },
 {
  "title": "A complete history of Reading & Leeds",
  "url": "https://discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/festivals/a-complete-history-of-reading-leeds-festival-58759/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "history",
  "why": "How a 1961 jazz festival became Reading and Leeds."
 },
 {
  "title": "Insomniac: How it all began",
  "url": "https://www.insomniac.com/who-we-are/how-it-all-began/",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "history",
  "why": "EDC's own history from the 1997 first edition to Las Vegas."
 },
 {
  "title": "Wikipedia: LiveStyle (formerly SFX)",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveStyle",
  "type": "reference",
  "topic": "history",
  "why": "The rise and bankruptcy of the 2010s dance music roll-up."
 },
 {
  "title": "The Show Must Go On report (Powerful Thinking, 2015)",
  "url": "https://www.powerful-thinking.org.uk/resources/the-show-must-go-on-report/",
  "type": "report",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "The baseline UK festival carbon benchmark."
 },
 {
  "title": "A Greener Future travel study coverage (CMU, 2023)",
  "url": "https://completemusicupdate.com/festival-industry-overstating-environmental-impact-of-audience-travel-study-finds/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "The counterpoint to the 80% travel figure."
 },
 {
  "title": "Where's your HVO been? (Transport and Environment, 2026)",
  "url": "https://www.transportenvironment.org/te-united-kingdom/articles/wheres-your-hvo-been",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "The critical case on HVO supply chains."
 },
 {
  "title": "Glastonbury Economic Impact Summary 2023",
  "url": "https://cdn.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/economic-impact-summary-2023",
  "type": "report",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "The most detailed festival impact study in this section."
 },
 {
  "title": "Facts about Roskilde Festival",
  "url": "https://www.roskilde-festival.dk/en/press/press-kit/facts-about-roskilde-festival",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "Nonprofit model, volunteer numbers and donations."
 },
 {
  "title": "Take Your Tent Home (AIF)",
  "url": "https://www.aiforg.com/take-your-tent-home",
  "type": "campaign",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "Abandoned-tent figures and what to do instead."
 },
 {
  "title": "Edinburgh Napier / Defra noise report (2011)",
  "url": "https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/OutputFile/197042",
  "type": "report",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "Summarizes the UK Pop Code noise targets."
 },
 {
  "title": "Boston Calling sound fix (Cambridge Day, 2018)",
  "url": "https://www.cambridgeday.com/2018/05/29/boston-calling-fest-turned-down-the-volume-as-promised-after-horrific-2017-sound-leak/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "A worked example of fixing sound bleed."
 },
 {
  "title": "Concert noise, curfews and agent of change (noise.cold.fyi)",
  "url": "https://noise.cold.fyi/nightlife/",
  "type": "guide",
  "topic": "impact",
  "why": "Sister guide on noise limits and curfews."
 },
 {
  "title": "Live Nation Form 10-K, fiscal year 2025",
  "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1335258/000133525826000009/lyv-20251231.htm",
  "type": "filing",
  "topic": "money",
  "why": "The company's own description of how festivals earn money and why fixed artist guarantees make results swing."
 },
 {
  "title": "Providence Equity: sale of Superstruct to KKR (2024)",
  "url": "https://www.provequity.com/news/providence-announces-sale-superstruct-entertainment",
  "type": "press release",
  "topic": "owners",
  "why": "The full list of Superstruct festivals at the time of the sale."
 },
 {
  "title": "CTS Eventim: 2026 festival season release",
  "url": "https://app.boersengefluester.de/en/newswire/DE0005470306/cts-eventim-ag-co-kgaa/more-than-one-million-total-attendees-eventim-live-off-to-a-strong-start-to-the-2026-festival-season-2364136",
  "type": "press release",
  "topic": "owners",
  "why": "Which festivals sit under EVENTIM LIVE and how many people attended by mid-2026."
 },
 {
  "title": "WBEZ: Jim DeRogatis on the Lollapalooza investigation (2010)",
  "url": "https://www.wbez.org/stories/analysis-whats-behind-the-attorney-generals-investigation-of-lollapalooza/b70ec5e5-9102-45a6-91cd-9669bebee6c8",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "money",
  "why": "The side-by-side comparison of radius clauses at four US festivals."
 },
 {
  "title": "Rolling Stone: Coachella's radius clause, from the Soul'd Out complaint (2018)",
  "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/coachella-bans-artists-from-playing-half-the-festivals-competing-with-coachella-666103/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "money",
  "why": "The clause terms as set out in court papers."
 },
 {
  "title": "Digital Music News: Ninth Circuit revives Soul'd Out (2020)",
  "url": "https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/05/13/coachella-anti-competitive-lawsuit/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "money",
  "why": "Why the appeals court let an outside festival challenge the clause."
 },
 {
  "title": "Insurance Journal: Piecing together coverage in live events (2022)",
  "url": "https://amp.insurancejournal.com/magazines/mag-features/2022/05/16/667465.htm",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "money",
  "why": "How event insurance changed after COVID."
 },
 {
  "title": "CMU: Astroworld settlements (2024)",
  "url": "https://completemusicupdate.com/live-nation-settles-final-astroworld-wrongful-death-lawsuit-thousands-of-injury-claims-remain/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "money",
  "why": "The settlements and the disclosed loss charge."
 },
 {
  "title": "Irish Times: Glastonbury's accounts (2025)",
  "url": "https://irishtimes.com/business/2025/01/02/glastonbury-festival-doubles-profits-amid-accusations-of-corporate-control",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "owners",
  "why": "How the largest independent festival is owned and the debate over its partners."
 },
 {
  "title": "Newport Jazz Festival - RI Rocks (Rhode Island Historical Society)",
  "url": "https://rirocks.rihs.org/Search/Newport%20Jazz%20Festival.htm",
  "type": "history",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "The fullest loaded account of the 1971 fence crash, the New York years and the 1981 return."
 },
 {
  "title": "Newport Jazz Festival unveils 2026 lineup - What's Up Newp",
  "url": "https://whatsupnewp.com/2026/04/newport-jazz-festival-unveils-2026-lineup/",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "Official 2026 prices and the foundation's grant figures."
 },
 {
  "title": "Newport Folk Festival tickets sell out before lineup - WPRI",
  "url": "https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/east-bay/newport-folk-festival-tickets-sell-out-before-lineup-is-announced/amp/",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "The 2026 blind sale, with the organizers' resale warning."
 },
 {
  "title": "Boston Calling canceled for 2026 - Boston Globe",
  "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/20/arts/boston-calling-canceled-2026/",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "The pause, the 2027 dates and the ownership chain."
 },
 {
  "title": "Hundreds of medical issues at Boston Calling 2024 - GBH",
  "url": "https://wgbh.org/news/local/2024-05-28/hundreds-of-medical-issues-thirst-and-mayhem-at-boston-calling-2024",
  "type": "news",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "EMS figures and attendee accounts from the 2024 crowding."
 },
 {
  "title": "City of Boston - Special events",
  "url": "https://www.boston.gov/special-events",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "The permit tiers, lead times and add-on permits."
 },
 {
  "title": "Special Events Emergency Action Plan - City of Boston OEM",
  "url": "https://www.boston.gov/departments/emergency-management/special-events-emergency-action-plan-permit",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "The 1,500-capacity safety plan rule."
 },
 {
  "title": "Green River Festival history (official)",
  "url": "https://www.greenriverfestival.com/history",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "From balloon fair and radio party to a 40-year festival."
 },
 {
  "title": "The origin of the July 4 Pops - Boston Globe archive",
  "url": "https://cache.boston.com/july4th/origination.shtml",
  "type": "history",
  "topic": "new-england",
  "why": "How a 1974 fireworks concert became a civic institution."
 },
 {
  "title": "IQ Magazine: IFF - the big billing debate (2019)",
  "url": "https://www.iq-mag.net/2019/09/iff-the-big-billing-debate/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "lineup",
  "why": "Bookers and agents argue ranked vs alphabetical posters, with Roskilde's font tiers."
 },
 {
  "title": "VICE: how festival lineup order and font size are decided",
  "url": "https://www.vice.com/en/article/festival-lineup-order-names-font-size-booking",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "lineup",
  "why": "Bookers on kerning, line moves and co-headliner order."
 },
 {
  "title": "Wallpaper*: why lineup posters are getting so hard to read (2026)",
  "url": "https://www.wallpaper.com/art/why-are-festival-line-up-poster-designs-getting-so-hard-to-read",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "lineup",
  "why": "Circle, crossword and graffiti layouts and why buyers like ambiguity."
 },
 {
  "title": "Napa Valley Focus: creating the BottleRock lineup",
  "url": "https://napavalleyfocus.substack.com/p/weekender-encore-blood-sweat-tears",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "lineup",
  "why": "A talent buyer's process from budget to day splits."
 },
 {
  "title": "Glastonbury 2027 official ticket information",
  "url": "https://glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/glastonbury-2027-ticket-information-confirmed/",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "selling",
  "why": "Registration, deposit, balance dates and resale rules in the festival's own words."
 },
 {
  "title": "Outside Lands official presale details (2026)",
  "url": "https://sfoutsidelands.com/news/presale-details",
  "type": "official",
  "topic": "selling",
  "why": "A complete published presale ladder with payment plans."
 },
 {
  "title": "Music Business Worldwide: CMA investigation of the Oasis on-sale",
  "url": "https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/uk-competition-regulator-launches-investigation-into-ticketmaster-over-oasis-concert-sales12/",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "selling",
  "why": "The dynamic pricing case that set the terms of the debate."
 },
 {
  "title": "TicketNews: FTC all-in pricing FAQ",
  "url": "https://www.ticketnews.com/2025/05/ftc-clarifies-impending-all-in-pricing-rules-with-faq",
  "type": "article",
  "topic": "selling",
  "why": "What the US fee-disclosure rule requires of ticket sellers."
 },
 {
  "title": "Darkroom Ad School",
  "url": "https://school.darkroom.ad/",
  "type": "course",
  "topic": "selling",
  "why": "Free lessons on selling out a room with Meta ads."
 }
]