The crowd management and event security Showsec will provide services at a second Common People Festival to be staged in Oxford over the May Bank Holiday weekend when it will run at the same time as a similar event in Southampton. This develops Showsec’s link with Bestival and LoudSound Productions which now involves four festivals across the summer. Pictured is Common People in 2015.
As well as the two Common People events this year, Camp Bestival runs on the Dorset coastline in late July and then Bestival, which was voted Best Major Festival at the UK Festival Awards, to round off the season in September.
Dave Grindle, the Festival Director from LoudSound said: “Common People enjoyed a hugely successful launch last year on Southampton Common, so we are now taking this metropolitan festival to another beautiful location at South Park in Oxford. When you are looking to establish a new venture such as this one, you need the reassurance of having a strong product and a strong team behind you. We are fortunate to have both of them, so we are confident of being able to build upon what was a fantastic starting point with Common People in Southampton.”
The event’s organisers have already confirmed that Duran Duran and Primal Scream will be headlining Common People over the weekend of May 28 and 29.
Simon Miller, Showsec’s Regional Manager for the South East said: “This a significant development for the Company on two counts. On the one hand, it gives an excellent opportunity to continue our long-standing relationship with Bestival and LoudSound Productions. We are proud of the fact that we have played a part in the creation of so many wonderful festivals. On the other, this enables us to develop an even stronger staff base in the Oxford area at a time when we already operate in a number of venues and also have the prospect of being able to offer other work in nearby locations.”
