The UK's Global Gathering will take a year off in 2015, its promoter MAMA & Company has confirmed. The the 2014 weekender featured headliners Chase & Status, David Guetta and The Prodigy. The motivation for taking the break gives organisers time to "review all elements of the show, ensuring it remains at the heart of the UK dance market". The festival began in 2001 and is held at Long Marston Airfield in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The now independent MAMA & Company, headed up by Dean James, is relaunching the company's Angel Music Group subsidiary as the GlobalGathering Group. The GlobalGathering Group will continue to operate the GlobalGathering, Godskitchen, FutureGods and Ec-lectricity brands and will seek new international expansion in the next two years. James will also be CEO of the GlobalGathering Group, while former Angel Music CFO Gary Turner will become MD of GlobalGathering UK and Paul Hugo becomes MD of GlobalGathering International. MAMA's Head Of Talent Richard McGinnis will also be responsible for talent booking across GlobalGathering Group's events.
